Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The International System and the End of the Cold War
- 2 The World Market and the Industrial Revolution in Asia
- 3 The Australian State and Economic Development
- 4 Economic Rationalism Changes Australian Politics
- 5 Government and Business in Australia
- 6 The Public Sector Reinvented
- 7 Australian Industry Restructures
- 8 Geographic Dimensions of Change
- 9 Australia Joins the Asia-Pacific Region: from ANZUS to APEC
- 10 All in a Day's Work
- Notes
- Index
Preface and Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The International System and the End of the Cold War
- 2 The World Market and the Industrial Revolution in Asia
- 3 The Australian State and Economic Development
- 4 Economic Rationalism Changes Australian Politics
- 5 Government and Business in Australia
- 6 The Public Sector Reinvented
- 7 Australian Industry Restructures
- 8 Geographic Dimensions of Change
- 9 Australia Joins the Asia-Pacific Region: from ANZUS to APEC
- 10 All in a Day's Work
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This is a book about the deepening integration of the Australian economy into the world market and the social and political changes which have accompanied that process in the last two decades of the twentieth century. I was initially a critic of these developments and politically active in the opposition to globalising Australia. Like many intellectuals of the anti-Vietnam War generation I joined the Left. During the Hawke- Keating Labor governments, however, I tried to be realistic and served on numerous ALP decision-making bodies, including delegate to State and national conferences, worked for three ministers in Immigration, Community Services, Defence and Industry, and spent three years as a federal MP.
During this period I came to the conclusion that the kind of structural changes described in this book were inevitable. In the university system, where I now again work, this viewpoint is generally accepted even less critically in economics departments. Elsewhere in the Arts and Social Sciences globalisation is generally opposed. I am now trying to enjoy it. I would like to thank Deborah Feagan, Natalie Mahoney, Chris Hill and Tom Conley for helping prepare this manuscript and John Playford for insisting I get it published. The book is for Pat.
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- Globalising Australian Capitalism , pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996