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  • Crisis, What Crisis? The Political Economy of Vulnerability in Australia

    Author(s)
    Conley, Thomas
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Conley, Tom J.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    If we could transport policy makers and commentators from the 1980s into 2018, they would no doubt be surprised to find that Australia has not had a recession since 1991. The sustained boom in resource demand and prices spurred by Chinese demand would also baffle them, because the widespread concern of the time was that late twentieth century Australia had 'the wrong sort of economy' for continued prosperity (Bell 1997: 4). Resource pessimism and a growing critique of protectionism (Conley 1999) led to a fundamental reassessment of the Australian political economy, and eventually to comprehensive restructuring of the economy ...
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    If we could transport policy makers and commentators from the 1980s into 2018, they would no doubt be surprised to find that Australia has not had a recession since 1991. The sustained boom in resource demand and prices spurred by Chinese demand would also baffle them, because the widespread concern of the time was that late twentieth century Australia had 'the wrong sort of economy' for continued prosperity (Bell 1997: 4). Resource pessimism and a growing critique of protectionism (Conley 1999) led to a fundamental reassessment of the Australian political economy, and eventually to comprehensive restructuring of the economy during the Hawke and Keating years (1983-1996). The Howard Government ( 1996-2007) consolidated this embrace of economic liberalism and globalisation (Conley 2001).
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    Book Title
    Understanding Government Business Relations in an Unpredictable World (Pearson Original Edition)
    Publisher URI
    https://www.pearson.com.au/9781488626098
    Copyright Statement
    Self-archiving is not yet supported by this publisher. Please refer to the publisher website or contact the author(s) for more information.
    Subject
    Commerce, management, tourism and services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397722
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