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Tim Harcourt
Author, The Airport Economist

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articles by Tim Harcourt

14 Aug 2017

Trump the great trade disrupter

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

Australian exporters have serious concerns about the disruptive trade policies from the US.

17 Feb 2017

The only place you need to be in China is online

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

Opportunities from the growing Chinese middle class continue to emerge for companies around the world and there’s no bigger opportunity than the online market.

04 Feb 2016

Right place, right time: the global trade environment in 2016

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which covers 40 per cent of the global economy is soon to be signed by Trade Ministers in Auckland before going to each signatory's respective parliaments.

05 Nov 2015

The four waves of Australia's Asian ties

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

Nearly half a century ago, Geoffrey Blainey's The Tyranny of Distance argued Australia's geographic position shaped our psychological attitudes. The long distance between Australia and our colonial forebears in Europe and the United States made us unsure of our future economic prosperity.

10 Mar 2015

Kiwis, emus fly together

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

New Zealand is famous for its exports. Not just in lamb and dairy but also design, the arts and music. Kiwi women do very well. Think of teenage singer-songwriter sensation Lorde and Eleanor Catton, the youngest person ever to win the Booker prize.

09 Dec 2014

Asian tiger, hidden treasure: Taiwan’s green success

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

In some countries, the issues of climate and economics are treated entirely separately, divorced from one another except insofar as finance is required to fund environmental initiatives.

06 Nov 2014

Australia and South Korea: Seoul mates

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

As the G20 approaches in Brisbane, it is important to recall that the G20 leaders meetings were the initiative of South Korea and Australia, when Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister and the world was facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The leaders acted swiftly and the G20 arrived as a major international economic institution.

01 Oct 2014

Cool for cats? A new dawn in the land of the rising sun

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

Are there really jazz festivals for pets in northern Japan? And how are demographics and changing gender roles affecting Japan’s economy and society? The Airport Economist explores modern Japan for himself in this excerpt from his new book, Trading Places.

16 Sep 2014

The main game in India-Australia trade

Tim Harcourt | Author, The Airport Economist

Prime Minister Tony Abbott surprised pundits last week when he put a free trade agreement between Australian and India on the table at a gathering in New Delhi. Among those most surprised was India itself, given that an FTA was barely mentioned in talks at that point, as the two U's - uranium and university students - dominated proceedings.