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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © Australian Social Policy Association
- eISSN
- 1839-4655
- DOI
- 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1995.tb01037.x
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Abstract
evidence of any kind) has been presented to show that recent economic debate was unusually tough for a policy area experiencing deep AI/drew Nor/oil is the Editor of Policy, rhe quarterly journal of the Centre for difficulties. Perhaps the anti-economic rationalists are particularly thin /m!l'pcllde,,' Studies and co-editor of A Defence of Economic Rationalism (Allen skinned, but their continued prominence in Australian debate suggests & Ul1win. /993). not. Stuart Recs' 'Economic Rationalism: An Ideology of Exclusion' (AJSl In any case, the anti-economic rationalists gave at least as good as May 1994) puts the common argument, coming mainly from the Left but they got. Michacl Pusey, in a statement quoted by Rees, described the also from the conservative Right, that not only is economic rationalism an economic rationalist bureaucrats as a locust strike (p. 175). Rees himself economic failure, but that it has diminished the quality of Australian accuses economic rationalists of 'greed of the most avaricious kind' (p. uemocracy. 180), and he is hardly the first one to complain of the 'decade of greed'. On the version of this argument put by Rees, economic rationalism Aside from these more personal insults, economic rationalists were 'contained no doubt and refused
Journal
Australian Journal of Social Issues – Wiley
Published: May 1, 1995