Friends in High Places: Rogernomic Policies Have Powerful Allies in Australia
Listener 23 April, 1994.
Keywords: Growth & Innovation;
Australian Michael Pusey triggered a national debate with his book Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes Its Mind. In it the sociology professor at the University of New South Wales argues that senior federal public servants now favour the New Right approach called economic rationalism (Australian for Rogernomics) and have abandoned the values and objectives that traditionally dominated the public service. Although economic rationalism has been around for some time, the book caused a storm.