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A losing argument.(How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in Australia)(Book Review)
How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in Australia, by Lindy Edwards; Cambridge University Press, 2002, $27.95.
ANTI-ECONOMIC-RATIONALIST books are now a small genre, and Lindy Edwards' adds to the ten or so published in Australia since the early 1990s. Briefly summarised, Edwards' spin on now familiar arguments runs like this: since the early 1980s, Australian economic policy has been dominated by something called "economic rationalism". This has its roots in neo-classical economic theory, and is orthodoxy in the central agencies of government, though not among the "punters". The policies of economic rationalism have had many negative ...
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