Economic Rationalism and the Contest for Civil Society

Thesis Eleven

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-86

  Pusey, Michael ^a  

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References (41)

1. See M. Pusey, Economic Rationalism in Canberra (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991).
2. “Civil Society” is, admittedly, not easy to define. My use is a common one that is also shared by such people as Axel Honneth, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy, and Jean Cohen who usefully define it as a term that “calls to mind rights, privacy, property, publicity, free speech, association, and equality before the law” and which is differentiated from the state and the market economy. See Jean Cohen, “Discourse Ethics and Civil Society”, David Rasmussen (ed.), Universalism and Communitarianism: Contemporary Debates in Ethics (Cambridge, Mass., MIT, 1990).
3. G. Harcourt (ed.), The Social Science Imperialists (London, Routledge, 1982).
4. J. Pincus, “Market Failure and Government Failure”, S.King, P. Lloyd (eds), Economic Rationalism: Dead End or Way Forward (Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1993). I rely on Pincus heavily in this paragraph and have reconstructed his concepts to suit my purpose here.
5. A. Sen, On Ethics and Economics (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987), p. 31.
6. See M. Pusey, Economic Rationalism in Canberra.
7. This very helpful definition is the one used by “The Reshaping Australian Institutions: Towards and Beyond 2001” project of the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University, Canberra.
8. A. Sen, The Standard of Living (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987).
9. R. Lane, “Markets and the Satisfaction of Human Wants”, Journal of Economic Issues vol. 12, no. 4 (1979), pp. 799–827.
10. These are the results of the National Social Science Survey reported by Bruce Headey, “The Life Satisfactions and Priorities of Australians”, Ch. 11, in J. Kelley & C. Bean (eds), Australian Attitudes (Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1988).
11. Robert Lane, The Market Experience (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 12.
12. V. Zeizer, The Social Meaning of Money (New York, Basic Books, 1994).
13. L.C. Robbins, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (London, MacMillan, 1935), pp. 155–156.
14. G. Brennan & L. Lomasky, Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Choice (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 132.
15. C. Offe, Disorganised Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1985), pp. 56–57.
16. R. Lane, The Market Experience, p. 6.
17. OECD Economic Surveys, Australia 1989/90 (Paris, OECD), ch. 3.
18. J. Elster (ed.), Rational Choice (New York, New York University Press, 1986), Introduction.
19. The public choice “amendment” to welfare economics is explained clearly by two long-time associates of J. Buchanan, Brennan & Lomasky, in their excellent Democracy & Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993).
20. J Buchanan, “Contractarian Political Economy and Constitutional Interpretation”, AAE Papers and Proceedings vol. 78, no. 2 (1988).
21. J. Buchanan, “Economics in the Post-Socialist Century”, Economic Journal, vol. 101, no. 404 (1991), pp. 15–21.
22. L. von Mises, Epistemological Problems, p. 61
23. quoted by R. Lane, “Markets and the Satisfaction of Human Wants”, p. 6.
24. M. Friedmann, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, London, University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 13.
25. This relies on some paraphrasing of arguments made by M. Trebilcock, The Limits of the Freedom of Contract (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 10.
26. Carl J Bahlman, “The Problem of ‘Externality’”, Ecominica, no. 37, (1962), quoted by Trebilcock, p. 60.
27. Michael Sandel, as quoted by A. Honneth, “The Limits of Liberalism: On the Political-Ethical Discussion on Communitarianism”, Thesis Eleven, no. 28, (1991), pp. 19–34
28. see also M. Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and its Critics (New York, New York University Press, 1984).
29. C. Offe, Disorganised Capitalism, p. 56.
30. R. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (California, Harper & Row, 1985).
31. A. Etzoni, The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda (New York, Crown, 1993), p. 266.
32. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971).
33. J. Buchanan, Liberty, Market and State: Political Economy in the 1980s (Sussex, Harverster Press, 1986), pp. 20–21.
34. J.F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1984), p. 62.
35. Kevin McDonald, “Globalisation, Multiculturalism and Rethinking the Social”, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, vol. 30, no. 3 (1994), pp. 239–247.
36. N. Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society (New York, Columbia University Press, 1992), p. 221.
37. T. McCarthy, Ideals and Illusions. On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1993), p. 157.
38. Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society, p. 221.
39. Luhmann, as quoted here by Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2 (Boston, Beacon Press, 1987), p. 63.
40. Luhmann, as quote by J. Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2., p. 263.
41. See Pusey, Economic Rationalism in Canberra, chs, 5; 6.