Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic RationalismAcademic examination of the massive rationalisation of Australia's water system in the closing decades of the 20th century. Investigates two major breakdowns: the Big Pong in Adelaide in the autumn of 1996 and the contamination crisis in Sydney in the winter of 1997. Uses the recent breakdowns in our water infrastructure to take the reader deep inside the ideas that govern modern society. Includes illustrations, appendices, notes and index. Author is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History at the University of New South Wales. Previous titles include 'War on the Wharves: A Cartoon History'. Illustrator is a prominent cartoonist who is regularly published in the 'Australian'. |
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Page 80
... effectively neutral . The firm was a shelf company prior to the South Australian contract , and it may be assumed that the liability of its overseas shareholders would have been limited to what was needed to clinch the deal . Partly ...
... effectively neutral . The firm was a shelf company prior to the South Australian contract , and it may be assumed that the liability of its overseas shareholders would have been limited to what was needed to clinch the deal . Partly ...
Page 110
... effectively been made subject to a policy of cost - deferring post - breakdown maintenance , which accounted at least in part for the rate - of - return . To put the issue still another way , to maximise the present rate - of - return ...
... effectively been made subject to a policy of cost - deferring post - breakdown maintenance , which accounted at least in part for the rate - of - return . To put the issue still another way , to maximise the present rate - of - return ...
Page 150
... effectively melted down the rest of the man- agement and taken all power to himself , the chairman was now outranged and defeated . At around midnight on Wednesday 29 July , Sydney Water's corporate management effectively expired . Late ...
... effectively melted down the rest of the man- agement and taken all power to himself , the chairman was now outranged and defeated . At around midnight on Wednesday 29 July , Sydney Water's corporate management effectively expired . Late ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Supplying water | 182 |
The rise of economic rationalism | 184 |
Copyright | |
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Adam Smith Adelaide Adelaide's analysis annual argument assessment assets auditor Australian Big Pong Bloch boil-water alert breakdown capital catchment cent central Chapter citizens commercial commercialisation competition contamination crisis context contract corporation's corporatisation Cryptosporidium direct economic rationalism economic rationalism's effectively environmental failure filters firm Friedman Giardia Hayek Ibid increase individual investment John Maynard Keynes lagoons less major managing director Marc Bloch marginal marginalists million minister neoclassical economics neoliberal Nick Greiner NSW Health of-return oocysts operating organisation parasites Peter McClellan political potentially Potts Hill privatisation problem Productivity Commission profit Prospect plant public interest public services rate-of-return reporting rational maximiser relationship responsibility risks self-interest sewage sewerage Sheil social South Australia South Wales sub-managers Sydney Water Sydney's theoretical theory tion transaction costs Treasury treatment plants United Water utility utility's Warragamba Warragamba Dam Water Corporation water supply water systems wrote