Challenging the Orthodoxy

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2. Introduction

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   2. Challenging the Orthodoxy: The Contributions of Frank Stilwell to Political Economy

      • Susan K. Schroeder, Lynne Chester

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3. Contesting Ideas

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Changing Track: Frank Stilwell’s ‘Fourth Way’ After Thirteen Years

      • John E. King

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   3. Constructing Policy Contributions from Critiques: Two Examples from Research into Australian Care Work

      • Therese Jefferson

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4. Teaching Political Economy

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Teaching Political Economy

      • Andrew Mearman

      Pages 39-56

   3. What do Graduate Attributes have to do with Political Economy?

      • Rod O’Donnell

      Pages 57-76

5. Economic Inequality

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Persistent Inequalities: The Distribution of Money, Time and Care

      • Gabrielle Meagher

      Pages 79-100

   3. Aboriginal Inequality: The Seemingly Intractable?

      • Gaynor Macdonald, Danielle Spruyt

      Pages 101-127

   4. Plutonomy and the 1 %

      • Georgina Murray, David Peetz

      Pages 129-148

6. Economic Policies

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Neoliberal Emperor has No Clothes: Long Live the Emperor

      • Jane Kelsey

      Pages 151-172

   3. The Primacy of Politics: Stilwell, the Accord and the Critique of the State

      • Elizabeth Humphrys

      Pages 173-180

   4. The Taxation of Capital in Australia: Should it be Lower?

      • David Richardson

      Pages 181-199

7. Cities and Regions

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ‘A Challenging Task’: Political Economy in/of the Urban Age

      • Brendan Gleeson

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8. A Green Economy

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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.

• Economic Policy
• Economic Thought
• Education and Teaching of Economics
• Environmental Sustainability
• Regional Development

• Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia

  Susan K. Schroeder

• Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  Lynne Chester

Susan K. Schroeder is a lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. She researches and publishes in the areas of international financial crises, country risk, business cycles, measures of financial fragility and history of economic thought and method. She teaches units on macroeconomic policy, cycles and growth and country risk assessment. Susan is originally from the United States and has held posts in Germany, New Zealand and Australia.

Lynne Chester is a senior lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the application of régulation theory to energy issues and the environment, energy affordability, electricity and carbon derivatives, markets for goods and services previously provided direct by government, and Australia's institutional architecture. Lynne is co-editor of the Review of Political Economy.

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