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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 has made us richer than ever before, but it has also
drained the competitiveness from many parts of our economy, leaving
us vulnerable. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton shows that China's
growth model is now reaching its limit, and the world's most
populous economy faces a challenging transition. Whether China
crashes, or crashes through, this will have dramatic implications
for Australia, slowing the demand for our resources and forcing us
to reassess the foundations of our wealth. Charlton looks at ways
to revitalise the Australian economy and secure our prosperity in a
changing world. 'Understanding China's growth model helps explain
why Australia has done so well in the twenty-first century. But it
also explains why, at the same time, our economic anxiety is
reaching a zenith- why Holden is leaving, why the budget is in such
an apparent quagmire, why house prices are soaring, why the dollar
is so volatile. China's growth has brought us a windfall, but it is
a precarious sort of prosperity.' Andrew Charlton, Dragon's Tail
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate
Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised
the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those
who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves."
In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will
shape our future: progress versus planet; rich versus poor. In
recent times environmentalists have argued with mounting force that
the growth of human activity on our planet is unsustainable. We
are, they claim, on a collision course with destiny. But, the
developing world counters, environmental threats, dire as they may
be, are not the only challenges we face. Indeed, these can seem a
distant danger compared to the daily tragedies of life in slums and
villages. Across the globe, economists and environmentalists vie
over who has the right response to climate change, population
growth and food scarcity. In Australia, this battle has plunged our
politics into one of its most tumultuous periods. In Man-Made World
Charlton evaluates some of the proposed solutions -renewable and
nuclear energy, organic and genetically modified food - and argues
that our descendants will only thank us if we find a way to
preserve both the natural world and human progress. "Progress has
its price. Each step of human advancement has left a footprint on
the planet. Today our two defining challenges are managing climate
change and eliminating global poverty. In Copenhagen we learned
that these challenges are inseparable." -Andrew Charlton, Man-Made
World About the Author: Andrew Charlton was senior economic adviser
to the prime minister from 2008 to 2010. During that time he served
as Australia's senior official to the G20 summits and the prime
minister's representative to the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He
previously worked for the London School of Economics, the United
Nations and the Boston Consulting Group and received his doctorate
in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar. He is the author of Ozonomics (2007) and Fair Trade for
All (2005), co-written with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. This
edition of Quarterly Essay also includes a piece by one of
Australia's leading writers, Richard Flanagan, entitled The
Australian Disease: On the decline of love and the rise of
non-freedom.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York
Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E.
Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer
a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization
can actually help Third World countries to develop and
prosper.
In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the
key issues facing world leaders today--how can the poorer countries
of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer
trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical
and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between
the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed
to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the
most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development,
and to minimize the costs of adjustments. The book illuminates the
reforms and principles upon which a successful settlement must be
based.
Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful
analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the
problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in
globalization and development in the Third World.
How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help
themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and
controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues
facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and
realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the
richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to
open up markets in the interests of all and not just the most
powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and
to minimise the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief
history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the
authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of
Cancun and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the
Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and
principles upon which a successful agreement must be based.
Accessibly written and packed full of empirical evidence and
analysis, this book is a must read for anyone interested in world
trade and development.
How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help
themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and
controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues
facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and
realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the
richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to
open up markets in the interests of all and not just the most
powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and
to minimise the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief
history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the
authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of
Cancun and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the
Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and
principles upon which a successful agreement must be based.
Accessibly written and packed full of empirical evidence and
analysis, this book is a must read for anyone interested in world
trade and development.
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