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In 100 words: The most important issue of this campaignIn 100 words: The most important issue of this campaign
About the author
Mark Thirlwell
One of Australia’s leading commentators on the international economy, Mark has been tracking global economic trends since he joined the Bank of England’s International Divisions in 1990 where he worked as part of the Whitehall Economists Subgroup, coordinating the forecasting of major emerging markets across the Bank, Treasury, the FCO and other stakeholders.
Short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign. See the Election Interpreter 2013 archive for the whole series.
How we plan to steer the Australian economy and the expectations that help shape it between the Scylla of unfounded complacency and the Charybdis of excessive pessimism.
Sometimes we seem to suffer from a kind of economic bi-polar disorder. We're either happily surfing the Asian Century to everlasting prosperity or we're facing imminent doom from the collapse of the mining boom and the end of Chinese growth. Of course, we shouldn't ignore the possibility of important tail risks, but reality is likely to be both less dramatic and more complex.
Mark Thirlwell
