By Bob Catley
This e-book tells the tale of Australia's integration into the foreign financial system. It lines the Australian financial system from Federation to its inevitable downturn within the Nineteen Seventies and assesses the present kingdom of play as Australia struggles below the pressures of monetary globalisation. Bob Catley argues that the insistent safety of family commodity industries has left Australia tied to gradual development industries on the cost of increasing the synthetic items and companies industries which now make up the majority of global exchange. subject matters comprise the inadequacies of the dirigiste twin economic system, the mandatory upward thrust of financial rationalism, demographic and geographic repercussions of globalisation, and the consequences for Australian diplomacy of the rising energy of the Asia-Pacific zone. Catley argues that structural adjustments are nonetheless required to make sure a aggressive Australian economic system on the planet industry.
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