Political Economy

One of the most bitterly contested political issues of recent times has been climate change, and how - or indeed whether - Australia should act to mitigate its effects. Different policy approaches have been developed and discarded by both major parties.

As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book brings academics and activists into conversation. These provocative essays by internationally distinguished women thinkers expose the limits of current scholarship in political economy, ecologic...al economics and sustainability science.
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Takes a 'big picture' approach to Japan's economic place in East Asia alongside that of China, analysing Japan's successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Editor Ligang Song from the ANU, all contributors are ANU graduates.

Australia was born vulnerable. From its beginnings as a precarious convict settlement on the 'other side of the world' through the development of self-governing colonies, to Federation and beyond recognising and dealing with vulnerability led Australians to embrace an insular att...itude to the outside world.
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The author of Curing Affluenza looks at how neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next. For thirty years, we were told that privatisation and economic reform would be good for everyone. But now the results are in - we have seen public services undermined and corporations gaming... the system. Damage has been done to the regional Australia, blue-collar workers and the collective ethos - a language of shared sacrifice has been degraded by lies.As a result, we are seeing a political backlash against reform. For the Coalition in particular, this is a threat to unity. In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss argues for a more pragmatic, consultative politics. He asks whether the major parties can find a new, and persuasive, way to talk about the national interest.
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