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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467005603321

Autore

Glover Dennis

Titolo

An economy is not a society : winners and losers in the new Australia / / Dennis Glover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Victoria : , : Redback, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-925203-36-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Redback Series

Disciplina

338.994

Soggetti

Economic development - Australia

Government productivity - Australia

Electronic books.

Australia Economic policy

Australia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction: Dark Vision; Chapter 1: Places of the Heart; Chapter 2: The Suburb That Was Murdered; Chapter 3: Ground Zero; Chapter 4: The Lost Revolution; Chapter 5: History to the Defeated; Conclusion: To Really Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three decades, they must also wear the blame for the social destruction that has accompanied it - the devastation of once prosperous industrial centres and the suburbs they sustained, as factories closed and workers were forced to abandon their trades. The social costs of this 'economic modernisation