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Journal Article
Abstract
This article examines the process of electricity privatisation in Australia in order to identify the dynamics of neo-liberalism in practice. It is argued that neo-liberalism is best understood as a particular mode of regulation in which the state legislates to secure freedoms for capital. In the case of electricity privatisation the main beneficiaries have been corporations rather than consumers and this has been facilitated by a whole host of new state regulations.
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Publication Details
Cahill, D and Beder, S, Regulating the power shift: the state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia, Journal of Australian Political Economy, 55, June 2005, 5-22. Original journal available here.