TY - BOOK AU - Cahill,Damien AU - Toner,Phillip TI - Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired SN - 9781743820605 AV - HC106.5 .W766 2018 U1 - 338.92 PY - 2018/// CY - Collingwood PB - Black Inc. KW - United States-Economic policy KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Situating Privatisation and Economic Reform -- Part One: The Contract State -- 1 The 'Radical Marketisation' of Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia -- 2 Coercing, Subsidising and Encouraging: Two Decades of Support for Private Health Insurance -- 3 A Tale of Mandarins and Lemons: Creating the Market for Vocational Education and Training -- 4 The Real Cost of Prison Reform: The Case of Privatisation in Victoria -- 5 The Marketisation of Aged Care in Australia -- 6 The Loss of Public Sector Engineering Competence -- 7 Markets, Mutual Obligation and Marginalisation: The Evolution of Employment Services in Australia -- Part Two: Privatisation and Deregulation -- 8 Electricity Reform -- 9 Fair Go No More: Neoliberalism and Australian Labour Market Policy -- 10 Financial Deregulation Exposes Banking's Antisocial Character -- 11 Housing in Australia: The Game of Homes -- 12 The NBN and 'the Market': Faith or Blind Faith? -- 13 Universities: A Paradox of Privatisation -- Part Three: Macro-Economic Dimensions -- 14 Monetary Policy and Unemployment -- 15 The Lost Golden Age of Productivity Growth? -- 16 How Orthodox Economic Models Justify Deregulation, Inequality and Unemployment -- 17 The Real Costs of 'Free' Trade Agreements and the Need for Alternative Trade Policies -- 18 Foreign Investment -- 19 Inequality and Neoliberal Economic 'Reforms' in Australia -- About the Authors -- Index -- Back Cover UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5504712 ER -