Berg: Australian politics is drifting with no ideological anchorAustralia isn’t deeply divided along ideological lines — unlike the US — and our politics is worse off without it. Without a strong party ideology, how can policies be written? asks Chris Berg.
Neoliberalism
What if it’s not the economy, stupid?
Kevin Rudd claimed that neo-liberalism was no longer the dominant paradigm for governments and he was right. But can he extend his critique to those left-over policies that have not been appropriately looked at?
The end of the free market?
In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, Ian Bremmer claims that the global free market has run its course.
Guy Rundle: Oz op-ed misses the mark by about 70 years
Today’s Oz op-ed claiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a neo-liberal is like saying Lenin was a social democrat.
Keen: Neoliberalism and economic breakdown
John Howard’s “five great reforms” did much more to cause the current crisis than avert it, writes Steve Keen.
Bishop’s plagiarism tells an uncomfortable story about neoliberalism
In appropriating a few ideas for an essay, Bishop has revealed more than just a story about staffing levels at Parliament House, writes Bernard Keane.
