Queensland Towns

Offers students and lecturers an innovative approach to introductory level sociology. Sociology, place, time and division, covers all the major areas conventionally introduced to first year students of sociology but in a context of place, time and division.

Economic constraints on public policy

Economics is commonly described as "the science of allocating scarce resources." By contrast, a popular description of politics is "the art of the possible." Both of these descriptions refer to the same central feature of human existence: our wants generally exceed our capacity to satisfy them. However, economic and political approaches to the problem of scarcity are quite different. [Extract from Introduction]