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

• Autore: Uren David
• Pubblicazione: Collingwood, VIC : , : Black Inc., , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.2
• Soggetto topico: Investments, Foreign - Social aspects; Investments, Foreign - Taxation - Australia
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Economic conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Takeover
• ISBN: 1-925203-10-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461141803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II