From public good to corporate enterprise: The financialisation of universities- (Part I) John H Howard In recent months, Australian universities have been increasingly scrutinized over…
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Failures in privatised care starkly illustrate the inevitable failure of neoliberalism Geoff Davies The failures of privatised child care and aged care have starkly illustrated…
The post Failures in privatised care starkly illustrate the inevitable failure of neoliberalism first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.How monetary myths conceal power Asad Zaman Modern economics rests on a dangerous illusion: that abstract, universal laws – derived primarily from the European experience…
Milei’s “Radical Plan”, revisited – part 2 Peter Rock-Lacroix In 2023, Javier Milei pitched dollarization as the path toward prosperity for Argentina. Two years on,…
Milei’s “radical plan”, revisited – part 1 Peter Rock-Lacroix In 2023, Javier Milei pitched dollarization as the path toward prosperity for Argentina. Two years on,…
The return of full employment – part 1 Steven Hail How the unemployed became a tool to discipline workers and keep wages down, and why…
by Glory M. Liu* People like to fight over Adam Smith. To some, the Scottish philosopher is the patron saint of capitalism who wrote that great bible of economics, The Wealth of Nations (1776). Its doctrine, his followers claim, is that unfettered markets lead to economic growth, making everyone better off. In Smith’s now-iconic phrase, […]
Universities: dead, buried and cremated? Geoff Davies In the late nineties, the management of the Australian National University was attacking its academic staff. That may…
What are the philosophical and empirical dimensions of the association of neoliberalism with free markets and why are they so hard to shake off? My latest articles argue that we need to dispel the neoliberalism = free markets couplet and re-evaluate how we assess neoliberalism.
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by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]