[PDF] Submission To The Committee To Advise On Policies For The Development Of Manufacturing Industry Of Science eBook

Author : Phillip Toner
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1743329814

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Four decades ago, faced with a series of economic, political and social crises, business and government leaders in Australia and many other nations were convinced by a well organised ideological insurgency of the need for what at first was presented as a series of technical changes in economic policy. However, neoliberalism quickly became a revolutionary agenda for re-ordering the social democratic state. Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state directs attention to the central role of state power not just to remake markets, but also to remake a broad swathe of political life, social policy and citizenship. In seeking to undermine the power of organised labour and “unleash” market capitalism, neoliberalism promised a surge of competition, productivity and common prosperity. For the wealthy few, this has indeed been an historically unprecedented time of capital accumulation, but for most, the results have been profoundly disappointing. Today, neoliberalism is in crisis. We are living through an age of great instability, disillusionment and despair. Inequality of income and wealth has been rising; a majority of workers have experienced long-term declining relative living standards; corporate political and market power has reached historic levels; and younger generations are increasingly giving up the expectation of attaining the living standards of their parents. The status of prevailing neoliberal ideas and policy is in increasing disarray. But without a coherent understanding of the ideas and interests driving neoliberalism, many people have turned to incoherent populism for an explanation and salvation and, failing that, even to forms of nihilism. Disillusion and anxiety constitute the dominant mood among the economic and policy elites, within Australia and internationally. Captured presents a series of case studies from leading public policy experts, building critical new insights into the malaise that has characterised the neoliberal era. This book tells the story of how a small group of economists and lobby groups with a universalising agenda of radical change used neoliberalism to transform the state, and of the destructive effects of those policies on everyday life. Captured includes critical accounts of neoliberal policy and speculates on the likely future of neoliberalism as a form of political power and governmentality in Australia.

Author : Michael John Webber
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780868405407

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"Since the early 1980s, Australian governments have pursued policies of 'international competitiveness' that combine the removal of tariffs and other industry protection with incentives to restructure the economy and encourage industries in which Australia enjoys a comparative advantage." -- Cover.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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This document records the oral and written testimony of witnesses who addressed the issue of how to strengthen research and education in engineering design and manufacturing at U.S. universities. The testimony includes a review of recommendations from two studies of the National Research Council and of the plans and programs of the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies that fund research relative to these recommendations. Witnesses included representatives from the National Research Council, engineering professors and department chairs from university, representatives from engineering education associations, and the assistant director for engineering of the National Science Foundation. They stressed that the United States has lost its competitive edge in manufacturing and technology and that more research is needed. Suggestions were made for increased research in and federal funding for programs in engineering design, changes in engineering education, and a design education clearinghouse. Other recommendations included bringing increased design knowledge to industry and promoting industry-university-government collaboration in research and education. (KC)