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Sociology University of New South Wales In the early 1990s Michael Pusey's book on Economic Rationalism in Canberra started a national debate on economic rationalism and brought the term into public useage. It showed how Canberra had been taken over by 'economic rationalists' and warned of the economic and social costs of free market economic reform. Since then he has been studying how Australians experience markets and economic structures. His most recent book, The Experience of Middle Australia, examines the impact of economic restructuring on incomes, jobs, families, communities, politics and Australian culture. Contact information: |
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Michael Pusey left school at 15 and worked in Tasmania as a photographer, a farm labourer and a shop assistant before studying at the Sorbonne and later at the University of Melbourne. He was a school teacher in Tasmania before moving to The United States where he completed his doctoral studies in sociology at Harvard University. On his return to Australia in the early 1970s he worked with the Schools Commission and at the Australian National University. Over the last twenty years at the University of New South Wales Michael has taught on social theory, the media and the public sphere, economic ideas, and, most recently on quality of life in Australia. Michael is a Professor of Sociology at UNSW and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His writings on economic reform and on the changing Australian middle class have involved over two hundred and fifty commentaries and interviews on radio, television and in the metropolitan press. He was listed in 2005 by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia’s top 100 public intellectuals. From 1995 to 2002 Michael has been Director of the Middle Australia Project. His theoretical and research interests have focussed on quality of life, on the experience of time, on trust and civil society, and the changing nature of political and economic culture in Australia. In 2006 he will begin, with Paul Jones, an Australian Research Council funded study on political communication and media regulation in Australia. Home | New Book | Recent Books & Publications | Senate Lecture | Other Lectures | Teaching | Media Coverage |
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