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Risking Together
How Finance Is Dominating Everyday Life in Australia
Series: Public and Social Policy Series
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Risking Together by Emeritus Professor Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty explores a significant social and economic experiment in Australia, where financial risks are increasingly being shifted onto ordinary people.
We are encouraged to manage ourselves as if we were businesses, yet these businesses are facing tighter constraints. Households are bearing more risk and financial stress, with an implicit expectation to be stable, secure payers.
This book delves into the underlying forces driving these changes and considers how we might resist them.
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Reviews of Risking Together by Emeritus Professor Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty commend its insightful and comprehensive analysis of financial issues affecting middle-class Australians. The book challenges conventional perspectives on wealth and inequality, making a significant contribution to cultural economy studies. It is deemed valuable for both academic audiences and the general public interested in understanding contemporary social and financial risks.
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ISBN: 9781743325728
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 January 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Edition: Digital original
Illustration: 24 b&w ill., 6 tables
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 325g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Dick Bryan is professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Sydney.
Michael Rafferty is an associate professor of international business at RMIT. He was an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney from 2012 2016.
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