Why Australia prospered : the shifting sources of economic growth
Ian W. McLean
| Year of publication: |
c 2013
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| Authors: | McLean, Ian W. |
| Publisher: |
Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton University Press |
| Subject: | Wirtschaftswachstum | Economic growth | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | Economic history | Australien | Australia | Wirtschaftsentwicklung | Wirtschaftspolitik | Geschichte |
| Description of contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Online Resource
| Extent: | 1 Online-Resource (XIV, 281 Seiten) graph. Darst., Kt. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader Cover; Why Australia Prospered; THE PRINCETON ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Figures; List of Tables; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Map; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative; CHAPTER 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How; Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita; Figure 2.1 Comparative GDP per capita, selected years, 1820 to 2008.; Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity; Table 2.1 Economic and population growth rates by period, annual average percentages, 1850 to 2010. Figure 2.2 Population increase per decade, 1790 to 2009.Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity; Figure 2.3 Growth rate of GDP per capita by period, 1850 to 2010.; Figure 2.4 Distribution of top incomes, 1921 to 2003.; From Evidence to Analysis; Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation; Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography; Recent Themes in Growth Economics; CHAPTER 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch?; The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines; The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy; The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later ProsperityBritish Subsidies and Australian Living Standards; CHAPTER 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies; Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient; Figure 4.1 Wool trade, 1822 to 1850.; Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government; The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration; Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847; Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity; The Argentine Road Not Taken; CHAPTER 5 Becoming Very Rich The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource CurseSustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes; Figure 5.1 Mining shares of total employment and GDP, 1849 to 2009.; Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter-Selector Conflict; Openness and Growth; Figure 5.2 Export and trade ratios, 1825 to 2009.; Figure 5.3 Government debt as a percentage of GDP, 1854 to 1914.; Rural Productivity and Its Sources; CHAPTER 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation; Explaining Relative Incomes; Figure 6.1 GDP per capita, 1889 to 1914.; Eating the Seed Corn? Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt CrisisFigure 6.2 Foreign debt-servicing ratio, 1861 to 1983.; Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies; Figure 6.3 Victoria: government revenue, expenditure, and defi cit, 1890 to 1914.; Figure 6.4 Growth indicators: Argentina, Australia, and Canada, 1890 to 1913.; Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken; Economic Effects of Federation; Accounting for the Loss of the "Top Spot" in Income Per Capita; CHAPTER 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks; Figure 7.1 Alternative estimates of GDP per capita, 1914 to 1939. Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe? Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4008-4543-9 ; 978-0-691-15467-1 |
| Classification: | Australien, Neuseeland, Ozeanien |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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