All fares from Melbourne airport are inclusive of airport parking fees and road tolls. Fares for every luxury airport transfer to and from Melbourne are fixed with no additional chargers added later. Special requests for baby seats and bay boosters are welcome and can be organised on requests for a very reasonable amount.
The cost of airport transfer depends upon
Appropriately for a kind of Social Democrat Manifesto (there is even a chapter titled "What is to be done") this is nicely mild mannered. More interesting is the quick historical overview of the ideology of the welfare state and Judt's nicely contemptuous take on identity politics liberalism.
Judt tells the history of Anglo-American political economy from the Great Depression to the present, as the story of the rise and fall of Keynesianism and social democracy. In his version, social democracy–in which a regulated market is guided by broad political consensus to provide material comfort for the majority of citizens, while also subsidizing culture (he devotes quite a bit of space to entities like the BBC, PBS, and public-private initiatives to support the arts)–was done in by its success. Over-confident planning created a drab and fettered world for too many–the council flats and public housing of the working class, the conformist suburbs of the middle class–and in the rebellion against conformity, the baby of the public good was tossed out with the dreary bathwater. The ideology of individualism, with the radical economics of the Austrian and Chicago theorists, threw the whole social democratic project into question; and with the fall of Communism, of which social democrats were far too uncritical, it became almost impossible to make a convincing case for the government’s role in building a just society.full review
Since the state is going to be with us for the foreseeable future, we would do well to think about what sort of a state we want.
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