Zadok Paper S98 Autumn 1999
Christian Theology and Economics: a Reading Guide
by Paul Oslington

The policy question

THE CURRENT STATE OF the debate over various Australian issues may be gauged from titles such as David Clark's "Student Economic Briefs and Updates",56 Ross Gittins' Gittins' Guides,58 The State of Play books written by INDECS Economics,59 Edna Carew's Fast Money and the Language of Money;60 as well as Economics as a Social Science, by George Argyrous and Frank Stilwell,61 Peter Kriesler's The Australian Economy: the Essential Guide,62 John Quiggin's Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform in Australia63 and journals such as Economic Papers64 and the Australian Economic Review. New titles by politicians, commentators and academics are constantly appearing.

The controversy over economic rationalism in Australian was triggered by the work of sociologist Michael Pusey's and his Economic Rationalism in Canberra.65 Stephen King and Peter Lloyd report on a conference where Pusey and others debated the issues in Economic Rationalism-Dead End or Way Forward?.66

To: The history and philosophy of economics

Paul Oslington has been lecturer in economics at Deakin University Geelong since January 1998, after completing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Sydney on the relationship between trade and unemployment, and a Bachelor of Divinity from Melbourne College of Divinity. Comments and suggestions on the guide are welcome and he can be contacted at School of Economics, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia 3217. E-mail: osling@deakin.edu.au