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with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity … 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 …
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Newspapers -- Raison d'Être: "The Appetite Grows by What It Feeds On"; 1 Of Discontent, Contractual Wars, and the Birthing of Secular Newspapers in British East Africa, 1899-1905; 2 "Political Apathy Is Commercial Atrophy": The East African Standard and the Interests of the European Press, 1904-1963; 3...
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Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward Wolff’s account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of U.S. wealth since 1900 provides a sober bedrock of facts and analysis. It...
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come...
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Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don’t lie. But...
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