Global restructuring : the Australian experience / Robert H. Fagan and Michael Webber
- Bib ID:
- 360300
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fagan, Robert H. (Robert Harold), 1947-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1994
- xii, 148 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195534379 (paperback)
- Series:
- Meridian, Australian geographical perspectives.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Emergence of the global economy. 1.1. Economic growth. 1.2. Globalisation of economic processes. 1.3. The outcome: patterns of world production and trade
- 1.4. Conclusion: a new global agenda
- 2. Explanations of the global economy. 2.1. Core and periphery. 2.2. The new international division of labour. 2.3. Global restructuring in the 1980s: a critique of the NIDL thesis. 2.4. Banking and finance in the global economy
- 2.5. Conclusion: global and local: towards a synthesis
- 3. Australia's links with global restructuring. 3.1. Trade: global links and the Asia-Pacific Rim. 3.2. Financial capital and foreign debt. 3.3. Transnational corporations and changes in production
- 3.4. Conclusion: links with global restructuring
- 4. Spatial restructuring in Australia. 4.1. Changes in industrial sectors. 4.2. Restructuring and social groups. 4.3. Spatial variations in the impact of restructuring
- 4.4. Conclusion: the changing Australian space-economy.
- 5. The Australian experience of restructuring. 5.1. Restructuring in the food and beverage industries: finance and 'fire-sales'. 5.2. The internationalisation of BHP Ltd: from iron and steel to minerals and energy. 5.3. Import-replacing manufacturing: the motor vehicle industry. 5.4. Banking in the 1980s
- 5.5. Conclusion: the changing Australian experience of globalisation
- 6. The state and restructuring. 6.1. Regulation and deregulation: government policy and economic geography. 6.2. Trade and protection: the search for a new consensus
- 6.3. Conclusion: debates over state involvement.
- Notes:
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- For tertiary students.
- "... a series initiated by the Institute of Australian Geographers"--Foreword.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [138]-142.
- For tertiary students
- "... a series initiated by the Institute of Australian Geographers."--Foreword
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