Table of Contents

1: William O. Coleman: The Australian Exception 2: Geoffrey Blainey: Australian Exceptionalism: A Personal View 3: William O. Coleman: Theories of Australian Exceptionalism 4: Greg Melleuish and Stephen A. Chavura: Utilitarianism contra Sectarianism: The Official and the Unauthorised Civic Religion of Australia 5: Henry Ergas: Tocqueville, Hancock, and the Sense of History 6: J.R. Nethercote: Australia's 'Talent for Bureaucracy' and the Atrophy of Federalism 7: Phil Lewis: Australia's Industrial Relations Singularity 8: William O. Coleman: Australia's Electoral Idiosyncrasies 9: Jonthan Pincus: Socialism in Six Colonies: The Aftermath 10: Adam Creighton: We must all be capitalists now: The Strange Story of Compulsory Superannnuation in Australia 11: Richard Pomfret: Australia's Economic Mores through the Lens of the Professional Sports Industry: Individual Rights or State Paternalism? 12: Peter Yule: The Industrialist, the Solicitor, and Mr Justice Higgins: Some Biographical Insights into the Harvester Case of 1907 13: Nick Cater: Barons versus Bureaucrats: the History of the Grain Trade in North America and Australia 14: J.R. Nethercote: Australia's Distinctive Governance: Westminster, Ottawa, and Canberra Differentiated 15: Keith Rankin: Australia and New Zealand: Parallel and Divergent Paths

About the Author

William O. Coleman is a Reader in the School of Economics at The Australian National University. He has written extensively on monetary policy, political economy, and the contested position of economics in society.

Reviews

This edited collection of papers by prominent, mostly conservative writers provides a lot of thought-provoking analysis of Australian exceptionalism and whether it was of its time in the past or is continuing. * ANDREW PODGER, Economic Record *