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The new politics of financialised social policy: re-thinking HECS

Ben Spies-Butcher | May 8, 2018

Finance is changing our lives. Through mortgages and super we now have more debt, and more savings, then ever before. The expansion of financial markets – what sociologists call ‘financialisation’ – creates new winners and losers. It even changes how we think about social rights. The [...]

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