Dragon's tail : the lucky country after the China boom / Andrew Charlton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charlton, Andrew, author.

Series:

Quarterly Essay

Quarterly Essay ; Issue 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic forecasting.

Australia--Foreign economic relations--China.

Australia.

China--Foreign economic relations--Australia.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria : Black, Incorporated, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Britain's Industrial Revolution. Since 2000, Australia has been an essential part of this transformation, providing the raw materials to feed China's frantic manufacture of steel vertebrae for everything from cars and trucks to railways, apartments and office towers. China's appetite for resources

Contents:

Front cover; QUARTERLY ESSAY 54; Contents; The Lucky Country after the China Boom; Lucky Country; The Secret of China's Success; Rickshaw Ride; The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away; Making our Own Luck; The Paradox of Prosperity; Sources; That Sinking Feeling: Correspondence; Mary Crock; Michael Bachelard; Neil James; David Corlett; Andrew Hamilton; Response to Correspondence: Paul Toohey; Contributors; Copyright; Subscribe

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 07, 2014).

ISBN:

9781922231567

1922231568

OCLC:

884585226