Contents

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Introduction

1 Economic breakdown as a threat to prosperity

2 Financial deregulation

3 Financial deregulation and household debt

4 Financial deregulation and overseas debt

5 Australia under credit watch

6 Crisis vulnerability over the next decade

7 Neo-liberalism comes full circle

8 Economic policy after neo-liberalism

Appendix

Acknowledgements: The role of financial deregulation in the accumulation of overseas debt

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