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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461141803321

Autore

Uren David

Titolo

Takeover : foreign investment and the Australian psyche / / David Uren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, VIC : , : Black Inc., , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-925203-10-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

331.2

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign - Social aspects

Investments, Foreign - Taxation - Australia

Electronic books.

Australia Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 1 Strange Bedfellows; 2 Keeping Out the Foreigners; 3 The Money Power; 4 Midwife to the Motor Industry; 5 Here Come the Yanks; 6 Symbols for Sale; 7 Money From Rocks; 8 Embracing Globalisation; 9 Our Land; 10 The Disappearing Corporation; 11 Co-Investing in Cars; 12 The National Interest; 13 Political Voices; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history?As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns in the buying and selling of Australia.Takeover is an authoritative, engaging account of the history of foreign investment in Australia - both the economics and the politics. It explores the strange coalitions of left and right that have sought to insulate us from the world economy and the equally unpredictable