Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age

ISBN-13: 9780367585099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Peter Murphy

Opis

This book explores the growth of the public sector in the wealthiest modern societies over the past century and asks whether, given the correlation between over-large public sectors and diminished economic social and dynamism, this growth can be halted or scaled back.

Spis treści

List of tables

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: limited government

2. A self-organizing society

3. Ordered liberty

4. Social liberalism

5. The anxious society

6. The managerial society

7. Conservative realism

8. Political economy

9. Health 1

10. Health 2

11. Education

12. Income

13. Conclusion: auto-industrial society

Index

O autorze

Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute at James Cook University, Australia. He is the author of Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society (2017), Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Societies (2015) and The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012).