The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia

Peter Saunders (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 August 2002
Pages
316
ISBN
9780521818926

The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia

Peter Saunders (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

This book explores the relation between economic liberalism and social policy in Australia. How do social policies operate in a fiercely individualist market economy, and if the market is expected to provide solutions to social problems, what role ought the government take to ensure that it does so? Why is it that quality of life in Australia has diminished as the economy has undergone sustained growth? These are just a few of the key questions Peter Saunders asks in this thoroughly researched book. Saunders draws upon the most up-to-date research, and particularly recent national surveys conducted by the Social Policy Research Centre. What the book does very well is cover the key trends in economic and social policy over the past 25 years, showing how economic liberalism, despite all positive economic indicators, has contributed to an increase in unemployment, inequality, social dysfunction and alienation.

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