Alessandrini cumpu, mawosang "utamanyane ring Australia, neo-liberalisme sampun kawangun malih pinaka rasionalisasi ekonomi tur kaselehin olih makudang kudang narawidya pinaka baya ring sajeroning pawongan santukan modal sosial kaanggen makarya olih parajanane."
Alessandrini agrees, saying that, "in Australia in particular, neo-liberalism has been recast as economic rationalism and identified by several theorists and commentators as a danger to society at large because of the use to which they are putting social capital to work."