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Overhaul: How Australia can adapt to a changing world economy | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
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Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying global rules, disruptive new technologies and increasing inequality, Australia needs to rethink its place in the world. Overhaul presents a new way of thinking about Australia's future, demanding a renewed agenda for Australian politics and statecraft. Despite three US recessions, a...
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Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying global rules, disruptive new technologies and increasing inequality, Australia needs to rethink its place in the world.
Overhaul presents a new way of thinking about Australia's future, demanding a renewed agenda for Australian politics and statecraft.
Despite three US recessions, a global financial crisis, slowing growth in China, the Euro crisis, bloody conflicts, and frequent prophecies of worse to come, the world economy and Australia prospered in the first quarter of the 21st century.
Overhaul examines the impact of three disruptive forces challenging prosperity in the new quarter century: the rise of China; the decay of the post-Second World War rules of global economic exchange, and the arrival of artificial intelligence. All are directly relevant to Australia's future in the world economy.
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ISBN: 9781761624445
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 October 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 160
About the Author
John Edwards has written six nonfiction books, including the bestselling Keating: The Inside Story, published by Penguin. John is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and adjunct professor at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He has been a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chief Economist for HSBC Bank in Australia and New Zealand, and was a senior economic adviser to Treasurer and then Prime Minister Paul Keating.
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