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ECONOMIC RATIONALISM: AN IDEOLOGY OF EXCLUSION
Author(s) -
Rees Stuart
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1994.tb00942.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , politics , ideology , individualism , economic justice , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , sociology , public administration , promotion (chess) , welfare state , economics , political economy , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Policies to rely on market forces instead of government responsibility were effected by techniques of exclusion. Political leaders, senior Federal bureaucrats and the managers of State bureaucracies advocated one version of economics. Critics were ignored or removed. The welfare state was derided and a two tier society encouraged. Only a re‐vitalized politics and economics of social justice can challenge the economic rationalists' promotion of individualism, greed and intolerance.