Australian Left Review

Article Title

News from Nowhere: Homo Economicus

Authors

McKenzie Wark

Abstract

Reading the opinion columns by economic journalists in the Sydney Morning Herald I can't help feeling that it is all written by communists. It may seem absurd to suggest that Max Walsh, Robert Haupt, Michael Denholm et al are communists, and before the abovementioned start reaching for the phone to speed-dial their defamation lawyers, let me explain what I mean. Neither these economic-communists nor old style stalinist-communists were ever very big on theoretical specification - and this is not the least thing they have in common.