Cover -- Contents -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Austerity State: An Introduction -- Section 1: State Responses to Crisis -- 2 Austerity Policies: From the Keynesian to the Corporate Welfare State -- 3 Post-Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the...

While there are numerous histories of major Australian banks, the extant literature on the history of the Australian financial service sector pays only incidental attention to the role of finance companies and other non-bank financial institutions in the sector's long-term transformation,...