Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age book cover

1st Edition

Limited Government The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age

By Peter Murphy Copyright 2019
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This book explores why, despite increased government spending on income-support, health and education, the costs of public goods are rising and their quality is declining. Charting the rise of big government, the author identifies a growing divergence between public-sector ideals and the realities of troubled political economies grappling with debt, deficits, ageing populations, improvident... Read more

List of tables



Acknowledgments



1. Introduction: limited government



2. A self-organizing society



3. Ordered liberty



4. Social liberalism



5. The anxious society



6. The managerial society



7. Conservative realism



8. Political economy



9. Health 1



10. Health 2



11. Education



12. Income



13. Conclusion: auto-industrial society



Index

Biography

Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute at James Cook University, Australia. He is the author of Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society (2017), Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Societies (2015) and The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012).

Add to Cart