Running the Risks: The Rationalisation of Australia's Water

摘要: This article analyses the categories comprising relationship between productivity and rate-of-return reporting in context of water infrastructure. It examines relations rates return, showing how each can fail to capture real gains. Theoretically, high returns may be obtained despite low vice versa. has implications for ‘corporatisation’, since restructuring Australia's systems entrenched as pre-eminent measure performance. The problem is, if water's is continually increased without ensuring commensurate improvements, eventually must break down. issue acute neither theory corporatisation nor logic ‘economic rationalism’ supplies a means profitability does not outrun productivity. I conclude rationalisation exposed citizens new, fundamental otherwise unprotected social, environmental economic risks.