several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …

. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising … economy that remained a region in a much larger national economy with one that evolved into an independent political unit … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …

the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much …

one takes account of Greenbook's advantage in evaluating the current state of the economy, neither large dataset methods …

basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …

-inflation economy. Do one-time inflationary shocks give rise to long-term persistence, or inertia? Do balance of payments' shocks …