New Readings on Globalisation, Asia and Australia (for 6005GIR, 1003GIR and 2016GIR)

The Asian financial crisis and 'global' financial crisis compared
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/the-asian-crisis-versus-the-euro-crisis/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto&_r=0

Rich winning class warfare
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/rich-win-big-with-class-warfare-in-session-20130827-2so67.html 

The false free market v interventionist dichotomy
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/breaking-out-of-a-cramped-economic-policy-debate/?emc=edit_tnt_20130823&tntemail0=y

Japanese/Chinese hostilities
http://thediplomat.com/china-power/china-and-japan-really-dont-like-each-other/

The significance of 1979
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/25/strange-rebels-christian-caryl-review

A carbon tax for the United States?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/business/a-carbon-tax-that-america-could-live-with.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_ae_20130901

Problems for India's economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/opinion/why-indias-economy-is-stumbling.html?emc=edit_tnt_20130831&tntemail0=y 

The return of ecopnomic nationalism

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/im-an-economic-nationalist-rudd-20130829-2stcn.html

Housing policy failures

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/09/saul-eslake-50-years-of-housing-policy-failure/

Need for a more humble foreign policy?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/it8217s-time-australia-stopped-boasting-tony-abbott-tells-kevin-rudd/story-fnii5s3y-1226709344594

Foreign investment in mining and agriculture

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/09/05/Foreign-investment-Lets-talk-about-mining-not-agriculture.aspx

The continuing decline of Australian manufacturing

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/09/australian-manufacturing-worlds-worst/

The great divergence revisited ...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/economic-history-1