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The withering of the state / Simon Upton.

By:

Upton, Simon [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Wellington [N.Z.] : Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press in association with the National Business Review, 1987Description: xi, 116 pages ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0868617709
9780868617701

Uniform titles:

National business review.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.5109931 19
320.6

LOC classification:

HC246 .U57 1987

Partial contents:

Part one: -- The philosophy and economics of liberty -- Part two: -- Deviancy and continuity -- Reorientation -- Boats against the current -- Road to state capitalism -- The rural dilemma -- The moral vacuum -- Avoiding the single-issue swamp -- The state and science -- Limited government -- Playing God at Whakarewarewa -- Consumer driven education -- The withering of the state.

Summary: "An intellectual revolution has swept the western world, New Zealand included, since the economic crises of the mid-1970s. Popularly called the "more market" thrust, it is in fact a much wider challenge to the statism, centralisation and moral inadequacy of big government. Simon Upton has viewed the emerging liberalism from both the government and opposition benches. Here he explores the philosophical foundations of this new tide of political and economic thinking. "The withering of the state" includes his prize winning essay, "The philosophy and economics of liberty", a series of articles on New Zealand politics written for the National Business Review, and a major new essay, "The withering of the state", which is published here for the first time. Together they make a hard-hitting case for smaller government and greater individual freedom, and a strong plea for a more prlncipled base to politics in New Zealand -- and elsewhere." -- Back cover.

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Essays.

Simultaneously published Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin.

Includes bibliographical references.

"An intellectual revolution has swept the western world, New Zealand included, since the economic crises of the mid-1970s. Popularly called the "more market" thrust, it is in fact a much wider challenge to the statism, centralisation and moral inadequacy of big government. Simon Upton has viewed the emerging liberalism from both the government and opposition benches. Here he explores the philosophical foundations of this new tide of political and economic thinking. "The withering of the state" includes his prize winning essay, "The philosophy and economics of liberty", a series of articles on New Zealand politics written for the National Business Review, and a major new essay, "The withering of the state", which is published here for the first time. Together they make a hard-hitting case for smaller government and greater individual freedom, and a strong plea for a more prlncipled base to politics in New Zealand -- and elsewhere." -- Back cover.

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