Tom Westland is a Canberra economist and writer.
 National affairs
      
        
      It might say free trade on the label, but what’s in the tin?
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      1 July 2015    
    
      Big numbers have a tendency to take on a life of their own, writes Tom Westland
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      It might say free trade on the label, but what’s in the tin?
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      1 July 2015    
    
      Big numbers have a tendency to take on a life of their own, writes Tom Westland     
  
                
          
          
  
    
         Books & arts
      
        
      Money talks
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      12 March 2015    
    
      Books | Feel like a tourist in the land of finance? Tom Westland reviews John Lanchester’s visitor’s guide
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Money talks
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      12 March 2015    
    
      Books | Feel like a tourist in the land of finance? Tom Westland reviews John Lanchester’s visitor’s guide    
  
                
          
          
  
    
         Books & arts
      
        
      Different diagnoses, different cures
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      23 July 2014    
    
      Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Different diagnoses, different cures
    
    
      Tom Westland 
    
    
      23 July 2014    
    
      Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently    
  
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