| Record Number |
18806 |
| ISBN |
9781760640385 |
| 1760640387 |
| Item Number |
99980467029 |
| Location |
338.925 CAH |
| Author |
CAHILL, DAMIEN. |
| Title |
Wrong way : how privatisation & economic reform backfired / edited by Damien Cahill & Phillip Toner. |
| Other title |
Wrong way : how privatisation and economic reform backfired |
| Published |
Carlton, Victoria : La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., ©2018. |
| Collation |
376 pages : map, charts ; 24 cm. |
| Content types |
still image |
| text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-358) and index. |
| Contents Note |
Part One: The contract state -- 1. The 'radical marketisation' of early childhood education and care in Australia -- 2. Coercing, subsidising and encouraging: two decades of support for private health insurance -- 3. A tale of mandarins and lemons; creating the market for vocational education and training -- 4. The real cost of prison reform: the case of privatisation in Victoria -- 5. The marketisation of aged care in Australia -- 6. The loss of public sector engineering competence -- 7. Markets, mutual obligation and marginalisation: the evolution of employment services in Australia -- Part Two: Privatisation and deregulation -- 8. Electricity reform -- 9. Fair go no more: neoliberalism and Australian labour market policy -- 10. Financial deregulation exposes banking's antisocial character -- 11. Housing in Australia: the game of homes -- 12. The NBN and 'the market': faith or blind faith? -- 13. Universities: a paradox of privatisation -- Part Three: Macro-economic decisions -- 14. Monetary policy and unemployment -- 15. The lost golden age of productivity growth? -- 16. How orthodox economic models justify deregulation, inequality and unemployment -- 17. The real costs of 'free' trade agreements and the need for alternative trade policies -- 18. Foreign investment -- 19. Inequality and neoliberal economic 'reforms' in Australia. |
| Summary Note |
Since the 1980s, successive waves of 'economic reform' have radically changed the Australian economy. We have seen privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and the contracting out of government services such as transport and education. For three decades, there has been a virtual consensus among the major political parties, policy makers and commentators as to the desirability of the neoliberal approach. Today, however, the benefits of economic reform are increasingly being questioned, including by former advocates. Alongside growing voter disenchantment, new voices of dissent argue that instead of free markets, economic reform has led to unaccountable oligopolies, increased prices, reduced productivity and a degraded sense of the public good. In Wrong Way, Australia's leading economists and public intellectuals do a cost-benefit analysis of the key economic reforms, including child care, aged care, housing, banking, prisons, universities and the NBN. Have these reforms for the Australian community and its economy been worthwhile? Have they given us a better society, as promised? |
| Subject |
Deregulation |
| Economic policy -- Australia |
| Economic policy |
| Privatization -- Economic aspects -- Australia |
| Privatization -- Government policy -- Australia |
| Government business enterprises -- Australia |
| Corporate power -- Australia |
| Economics -- Australia |
| Human services |
| Politics and government |
| Privatization |
| Human services -- Australia |
| Privatization -- Australia. |
| Privatization |
| Geographic Name |
Australia -- Economic conditions |
| Australia -- Social conditions |
| Australia -- Economic policy |
| Australia |
| Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- |
| SUBJECT |
Australian |
| Added Name |
Cahill, Damien, (editor). |
| Toner, Phillip,1955-, (editor). |
