Gone Tomorrow: Australia in the 1980's by Humphrey McQueen

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to top foredge. Minor marks on tail foredge.

Gone Tomorrow in lively and entertaining prose that avoids the technical overburden of economic textbooks, analyses the problems of Australia in the 1980s by making sense of the 1970s.

With a lens that pans from the Gold Coast to the Pilbara, from John Stone in the Treasury to Sir Roderick Carnegie at CRA, Gone Tomorrow brings under scrutiny a broad and varied selection of the events and attitudes that typify the trends of the last decade.

It shows that the continuing upheavals since the 1960s are much more than a series of unrelated shocks are, in fact, an inevitable feature of an economy that has been fundamentally weakened by de-labourisation in all sectors and by overseas control of natural resources and industry. (back cover)