The sweet spot : how Australia made its own luck- and could now throw it all away / / Peter Hartcher

• Autore: Hartcher Peter
• Pubblicazione: Collingwood, VIC : , : Black Inc., , 2011; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.994
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Politics and government; Australia History; Australia Social policy; Australia Economic policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Copyright; Title page; Contents; Dedication; The Sweet Spot; 1. Gold; 2. Success and failure; 3. Ashes and ore; 4. Come the revolution?; 5. Low-fat country; 6. Destined to fail; 7. Would you like some rights with your flogging?; 8. The racket; 9. The heavy armour; 10. I dare you; 11. On our own; 12. I expect you to die; 13. The third phase; 14. Free-market Hong Kong or socialist France?; 15. Supermodel kryptonite; 16. How to blow it; 17. Why the world needs a new model; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: New updated editionThis book will change the way you think about your country...Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care?In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on a vastly entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history. He shows how a convict colony could have become a banana republic but didn't, how Australia came through the global financial crisis - it wasn't j
• Titolo autorizzato: The sweet spot
• ISBN: 1-922231-33-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459806703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II