Phillip Toner

Leading economists assess the costs and benefits of privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and other neoliberal reforms that have dominated Australian economic policy since the 1980s. Since the 1980s, waves of neoliberal 'economic reform' have transformed Australia. Privatisation, deregulation, marketisation, and the contracting out of government services— for three decades now, there has been widespread agreement among policymakers on the desirability of...