Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Global Arrangements and the Australian Polity -- Australia in the international system -- The natural environment as a policy arena -- I. Australia and International Environmental Order -- 2. International...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Industrial Transformation in a Changing Global Economy -- Perspective -- 2. The Changing Pacific Economy: Challenge to the Post-Industrial Economy -- Defining the Pacific Region: a Curious Task -- Historical Patterns of Incorporation of...

In this immensely practical book, Timothy Beatley sets out to answer a simple question: what can Americans learn from Australians about "greening" city life? Green Urbanism Down Under reports on the current state of "sustainability practice" in Australia and the many lessons that U.S. residents...

This paper analyzes the impact of product and labor market policies on technological diffusion and multi-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia. We use a simple convergence empirical framework to...

In this paper, the IMF's new Global Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the contribution of unbalanced growth to the decline in the share of goods production in Australia and New Zealand. The simulation results suggest that faster productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in...

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...