| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- Challenging the Orthodoxy: The Contributions of Frank Stilwell to Political Economy / Susan K. Schroeder and Lynne Chester -- Part II. Contesting Ideas -- Changing Track: Frank Stilwell's 'Fourth Way' After Thirteen Years / John E. King -- Constructing Policy Contributions from Critiques: Two Examples from Research into Australian Care Work / Therese Jefferson -- Part III. Teaching Political Economy -- Teaching Political Economy / Andrew Mearman -- What do Graduate Attributes have to do with Political Economy? / Rod O'Donnell -- Part IV. Economic Inequality -- Persistent Inequalities: The Distribution of Money, Time and Care / Gabrielle Meagher -- Aboriginal Inequality: The Seemingly Intractable? / Gaynor Macdonald and Danielle Spruyt -- Plutonomy and the 1 % / Georgina Murray and David Peetz -- Part V. Economic Policies -- The Neoliberal Emperor has No Clothes: Long Live the Emperor / Jane Kelsey -- The Primacy of Politics: Stilwell, the Accord and the Critique of the State / Elizabeth Humphrys -- The Taxation of Capital in Australia: Should it be Lower? / David Richardson -- Part VI. Cities and Regions -- 'A Challenging Task': Political Economy in/of the Urban Age / Brendan Gleeson -- Part VII. A Green Economy -- A Genuine 'Green' Economy Must be Ecologically Sustainable and Socially Just / Mark Diesendorf -- When the 'Green Economy' Undermines Sustainability: Political, Economic and Ecological Dimensions of Carbon Markets / Gareth Bryant -- Part VIII. Conclusion -- Political Economy: Past, Present, Prospects / Frank Stilwell |
| Summary |
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist is Frank Stilwell. Highlights of his work include concerns with the creation and use of wealth, inequalities between rich and poor, the spatial implications of economic growth, and the tensions between economic growth and the environment. Stilwell has been especially prominent in developing alternative economic policies, with seminal contributions to understanding the radical shift in Australian economic and social policies since the early 1980s. He has also been a leader in the teaching of political economy to many cohorts of first-year university students. This collection, spanning these themes, honours Stilwell's contribution to Australian political economy after more than 40 years teaching at the University of Sydney. The book provides not only an opportunity to appreciate his contribution but also a greater understanding of these themes which remain of crucial contemporary relevance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013) |
| Subject |
Stilwell, Frank J. B.
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Economic policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Science économique.
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Affaires.
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Economic policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schroeder, Susan K., editor
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Chester, Lynne, editor
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| ISBN |
9783642361210 |
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3642361218 |
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