In the National Interest #: Fortune's Fool

Australia's Choices

In the National Interest #: Fortune's Fool
Satyajit Das
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1 Mar 2022 AU
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9781922633071
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Australia' s prosperity relies on the continent' s extraordinary natural - primarily mineral - riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation' s high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. Lacklustre reform proposals are mired in ideological necrophilia: ideas which have been tried and failed. Politics is trading insults and slogans. Institutions lack the quality, skills, organisational memory and courage to deliver the required solutions. A disengaged citizenry are focused on preserving their entitled way of life, refusing to accept that the well of plenty is approaching exhaustion. Critics are derided as permanent professional pessimists, the doubting Irishman Hanrahan in John O' Brien' s poem warning of ' roon' . Cognitive dissonance is a national religion. Written in accessible, acerbic prose, Fortune' s Fool cuts through these issues to expose Australia' s current dilemmas and choices. It dissects the pandemic, global trends, Australia' s narrow ' house and holes' economy and its dependency on China, spotlighting a political paralysis that must be overcome and the changes that are urgently needed. For Australians remotely concerned about their own future and their children' s, as well as the country' s, Fortune' s Fool is essential reading.

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Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC
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Population Shock
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Respect
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Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific
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Satyajit Das is a financier who was named in 2014 by Bloomberg as among the fifty most influential people in financial markets. He has held senior positions in banks and industry and now works as a consultant to investors and corporations globally. He has published several key reference works on finance and wrote Traders, Guns & Money (2006), Extreme Money (2011) and A Banquet of Consequences (2015, updated 2021; published in North America as Age of Stagnation). He is also the author (with Jade Novakovic) of In Search of the Pangolin: The Accidental Eco-Tourist (2006). Satyajit Das appeared in Charles Ferguson' s 2010 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. He has spoken at the Sydney and Melbourne writers festivals, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781922633071
Published: 1 Mar 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 175mm
Width: 111mm
Pages: 96

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