Regulating the Power Shift: The State, Capital and Electricity Privatisation in Australia Download

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In 1990, British political economist Grahame Thompson observed:

One of the most remarkable features of the ‘conservative turn’ experienced in the UK since 1980 is the paradoxical emergence of extensive reregulation of economic activity in a period supposedly typified by drastic deregulation. (Thompson, 1990: 135)

Thompson’s comments point to one of the central, but least understood, contradictions of neo-liberalism: that a system which is justified on the premise of a withdrawal of state intervention in the economy has entailed an active role for the state in its implementation and maintenance. This article examines the realities of neo-liberalism in practice through an analysis of the history and experience of electricity privatisation in Australia.

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16 Jul 2007

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27 Mar 2007

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Damien Cahill and Sharon Beder

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