![handle is hein.journals/respub3 and id is 1 raw text is: Res Publica Vol.III no.1 [1997]
UNCHARTERED LANDS IN AN AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY'
by
IAN DUNCANSON*
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By associating welfare provisions and other (selected) government
interventions with socialism/communism and conversely the free enterprise
system with loyalty, patriotism, the American Dream, the American way of
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Introduction
We live in puzzling times. Anglophone societies are
unprecedentedly wealthy and apparently obsessed by the pursuit of
efficiency, yet the most cloistered philosopher cannot have avoided
noticing that wealth is so inefficiently applied that increasing numbers of
people are homeless, impoverished and find access to health care and
juridical remedies increasingly problematic. The waste of their time,
their morale and their bodies is a high cost for the construction of
* Department of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora,
Victoria 3083, Australia. E-mail: I.Duncanson@Latrobe.edu.au. I am
grateful to Brendan Cassidy for his comments on an early draft and to
Judith Grbich both for her comments and for lengthy discussion of the
subject of the paper. An early version of the paper was delivered at a joint
seminar of the China University of Politics and Law, La Trobe University
and the University of Melbourne, at La Trobe University, July 1996.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/respub3&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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