Liberal economics has run into 'a dead end', says Keating

By Deborah Snow
Updated March 30 2017 - 5:03pm, first published 4:48pm

Former prime minister Paul Keating - architect of some of the most profound economic reforms in the country's history during the 1980s - has launched a surprise critique of the liberal economic philosophy he once championed, declaring it has "run into a dead end".