Great expectations : microeconomic reform and Australia

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Great expectations : microeconomic reform and Australia

John Quiggin

Allen & Unwin, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index

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内容説明

The 1980s and '90s have been a period of unprecedented microeconomic reform in Australia, in a bid to make the nation s enterprise environment more competitive. With the full implementation of the National Competition Policy, the pace of that reform is set to explode. In this timely work, John Quiggin critically examines the assumptions, the practice and the future of microeconomic reform and its place in the Australian economy. Is it unambiguously true that competition within the infrastructure benefits business and consumers as well as the infrastructure industry concerned? What are the assumptions upon which such great expectations have been placed, and have they held true in the experience of reform? Great Expectations places the prospect of microeconomic reform in its theoretical and historical context. It examines and evaluates: - transport deregulation - government business enterprises - financial deregulation - contracting out - tariffs and industry policy - privatisation - communications deregulation - private infrastructure At a time when Australia s economic basis and future conti

目次

1 Introduction2 The international background of microeconomic reform3 The background to microeconomic reform in Australia4 Welfare economics5 Understanding government policy: the public interest approach6 Understanding government policy: the private interest approach7 Financial deregulation8 Airline deregulation9 Telecommunications10 Tariff reform11 Privatisation12 Private infrastructure13 Competitive tendering and contracting14 Government business enterprises and the Hilmer reforms15 The benefits and costs of microeconomic reform16 Some final observationsBibliography

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA28693767
  • ISBN
    • 1864482362
  • 出版国コード
    at
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    St. Leonards, N.S.W.
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 251 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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