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"Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia's distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy portrays a classic eudemonic society whose dominant ethos of phlegmatic happiness vies with a subsidiary current of melancholic and choleric romanticism"--

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Social Distance -- 1.1 2020 -- 1.2 Mortality -- 1.3 Interpersonal Distance -- References -- Chapter 2: Public Policy -- 2.1 Proportionality -- 2.2 The Ferguson Report -- 2.3 Mitigation -- 2.4 Unintended Consequences -- References -- Chapter 3: Social Mood -- 3.1 Mentalities -- 3.1.1 Catastrophism -- 3.1.2 Alarmism -- 3.1.3 Pessimism -- 3.1.4 Futurism -- 3.1.5 Realism -- 3.1.6 Rationalism -- 3.1.7 Pluralism -- 3.1.8 Moralism -- 3.2 Politics -- 3.2.1 Romanticism -- 3.2.2 Asceticism -- 3.2.3 Organic Solidarity -- 3.2.4 The Emergency State -- 3.2.5 The Planned State -- 3.2.6 Freedom -- 3.3 Beliefs -- 3.3.1 Explanatory Beliefs -- 3.3.2 Consolatory Beliefs -- 3.3.3 Heroism -- 3.3.4 The Fear of Death -- 3.3.5 The Fear of Finitude -- 3.3.6 The Fear of Strangers -- 3.3.7 Emotivism -- 3.3.8 The Death of God -- 3.3.9 Stoicism -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

Introduction: limited government -- A self-organizing society -- Ordered liberty -- Social liberalism -- The anxious society -- The managerial society -- Conservative realism -- Political economy -- Health 1 -- Health 2 -- Education -- Income -- Conclusion: auto-industrial society.

This book explores why, despite increased government spending on income-support, health and education, the costs of public goods are rising and their quality is declining. Charting the rise of big government, the author identifies a growing divergence between public-sector ideals and the realities of troubled political economies grappling with debt, deficits, ageing populations, improvident social insurance, declining education test scores and multiplying health costs. Limited Government analyzes in detail the social and political factors in major economies that drive up public spending, as well as the relationship between spending and outcomes. By developing an alternate model of public finances, and engaging in a critique of the managerial society, the author emphasizes the positive effects of self-management, social self-organization and technological automation, arguing that high-quality low-cost goods are the result of nations that save, not states that tax. A sociological account of public finances, Limited Government outlines how governments can spend less and yet help ensure good broad equitable standards of health, education and income security.

This book explores why, despite increased government spending on income-support, health and education, the costs of public goods are rising and their quality is declining. Charting the rise of big government, the author identifies a growing divergence between public-sector ideals and the realities of troubled political economies grappling with debt, deficits, ageing populations, improvident social insurance, declining education test scores and multiplying health costs. Limited Government analyzes in detail the social and political factors in major economies that drive up public spending, as well as the relationship between spending and outcomes. By developing an alternate model of public finances, and engaging in a critique of the managerial society, the author emphasizes the positive effects of self-management, social self-organization and technological automation, arguing that high-quality low-cost goods are the result of nations that save, not states that tax. A sociological account of public finances, Limited Government outlines how governments can spend less and yet help ensure good broad equitable standards of health, education and income security.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The Media of Creation -- 1 Imagination -- 2 Wit -- 3 Paradox -- 4 Metaphor -- II Collective Creation -- 5 Art -- 6 Economy -- 7 Society -- 8 Politics -- References -- Index.