Issue 2014 October 11
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ECONOMIC AGENDA Critical China free trade agreement based on what?
How can the Commonwealth government evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement (FTA), if it doesn’t know whether the key market for Australian farmers is the domestic one or the one for exports? Australian agriculture has benefited little from the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement concluded in April this year. It did not improve, or only marginally improved, market access for…
BOOK REVIEW Britain’s Faustian bargain with the United States
THE BATTLE OF BRETTON WOODS: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil (Princeton University Press) Paperback: 464 pages ISBN: 9780691162379 Price: AUD$39.90 Reviewed by Warren Reed It is sometimes said of books that if you read what’s on the front cover and what’s on the back, then in between, by the…
