In 1959, an edited volume entitled The State and Economic Growth was published. It consisted of papers presented at a 1956 conference related to the same topic. Of interest here was the inclusion of N. G. Butlin's paper entitled “Colonial Socialism in Australia”. The existence of colonial...

Nothwithstanding the depth of what can be drawn from trade mark registration data, historical trade mark registrations have largely been the subject of neglect. Some work, however, has recently emerged internationally that considers historical trade mark registrations. Even so, no such work has...

How did early colonial Australians think about liberalism, economics and political economy more generally? Colonial Australia has been described variously as having a neoclassical, enlightenment, or Benthamite political culture. This paper provides an empirical approach to the question of early...

This paper deals with the transplant and adaption of company law in the Australian colony of Victoria during the second half of the nineteenth century. It seeks to place the development of company law in Victoria in its economic and institutional contexts so as to inform a consideration of the...