In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Australian state was shaped by the confrontation with monetary a pre-history of neoliberalism.
Michael Beggs is a senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney, where he works on the history of monetary theory and policy. He is the author of Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945-85.