Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101197

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP180101197

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Challenging the neoliberal critique of deficit spending and public debt. This project aims to analyse the rhetoric of balanced budgets by examining its intellectual and political history and revisiting counterarguments. Expected outcomes from the project will include insights into the development of rhetoric based on analysis of archival, textual and interview-based data . Findings from the project will be published in online fora with wide readership in national and international policy circles. The project has the capacity to provide insights into and benefits for policy discourse on government deficit-spending and public debt.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-06-2018

End Date: 03-06-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $159,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Social Change | Sociology | Social Theory |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Fiscal Policy | Social Class and Inequalities

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Fiscal Policy | Social Change | Social Class and Inequalities | Social Theory | Sociology

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