Table of Contents
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors xi
- The Australian Exception 1
William O. Coleman - Australian Exceptionalism: A Personal View 17
Geoffrey Blainey - Theories of Australian Exceptionalism 34
William O. Coleman - Utilitarianism contra Sectarianism: The Official and the
Unauthorized Civic Religion of Australia 62
Greg Melleuish and Stephen A. Chavura - Tocqueville, Hancock, and the Sense of History 81
Henry Ergas - Australia’s‘Talent for Bureaucracy’and the Atrophy of Federalism 107
J. R. Nethercote - Australia’s Industrial Relations Singularity 119
Phil Lewis - Australia’s Electoral Idiosyncrasies 143
William O. Coleman - Socialism in Six Colonies: The Aftermath 166
Jonathan Pincus - We Must All Be Capitalists Now: The Strange Story of
Compulsory Superannuation in Australia 188
Adam Creighton - Australia’s Economic Mores through the Lens of the Professional
Sports Industry: Individual Rights or State Paternalism? 209
Richard Pomfret