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Governomics: Can we afford small government?

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By (author): Ian McAuley Miriam Lyons

People have many good reasons to want a decent public education system, to want a well-funded health system, and to live in a society where there is less disparity between the rich and the poor. What is not always clear is that, almost without exception, public sector involvement makes sound economics.Governments rarely get good press, partly because their statutory accountability, partly because commercial interests stand to gain from a retreat of government and partly because governments have to do the hard jobs that the private sector doesnt want to do.Governomics shows that by standing up for government, you are standing up for good government, efficient and responsive to our society's needs. Its a book for people who are fed up with dumbed-down debates on important public issues. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 467g
  • Dimensions: 157 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2015
  • Publisher: Melbourne University Press
  • Publication City/Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780522867657

About Ian McAuleyMiriam Lyons

For most of his life Ian McAuley has lived and breathed public policy. He has been an engineer in a manufacturing firm (in the days when we had a home-grown manufacturing sector) a trade commissioner a policy analyst and a manager in the federal Department of Industry and more recently a lecturer in Public Sector Financial Management at the University of Canberra. He has worked on consultancies for Australian and foreign governments and for international agencies (the UN and the OECD). He is a regular contributor on public policy issues to The Conversation and New Matilda. Miriam Lyons is an Australian policy analyst writer and commentator. She was co-founder and executive director of the Centre for Policy Development a public-interest think-tank. She has been a regular guest on the ABC shows Q&A and The Drum has contributed to several media outlets and co-edited the books Pushing Our Luck and More Than Luck. Earlier roles include policy editing for New Matilda researching freedom of speech in East Timor and organising ideas festivals. Together they have worked on public policy issues through the Centre for Policy Development.

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