Bio

Dr Mark Davis teaches in the Publishing and Communications Program in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a writer of popular non-fiction and has written for many major newspapers and magazines. His book Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism was short-listed in the 1998 NSW Premiers Literary Awards. He is a Centre for Policy Development fellow.

Mark Davis's contributions:

Is neoliberalism withering? Weighing up the progressive future

Mark Davis questions the future of neoliberalism with some lessons for the new progressive politics.

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• Thinking Points

• Thinking Points
• politics
• neoliberalism
• future
• conservatism

An Economic Fool’s Paradise

CPD Fellow Mark Davis considers the prospect of a humane market economy: Neoliberals have provided the populist front end for attacks on the welfare system and the privatisation-by-stealth of unemployment services, child care, education and health care, while neoclassicals have provided the back-office grunt. Lost in the revisionism and myth-making that surround recent economic history is the possibility of thinking through alternatives. Yet ours is a historic moment at the end of two periods of economic consensus, both of which have been found wanting, that offers the opportunity to build a humane market economy. Having spent decades labouring under the pernicious idea that ‘government isn’t the solution to the problem, government is the problem’, as Ronald Reagan once put it, the key question now is how to establish a better mix of government and markets.

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• Our Common Wealth
• Real world economics