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Indigenous populations of the Pacific and American West Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sumner La Croix, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
This special issue of the Asia Pacific Economic History Review explores the impact of colonisation on Indigenous populations across the Pacific and American West from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Three of the contributing articles examine ways of modelling Indigeous populations at point of contact and the scale and pace of subsequent declines. A further two explore the problematics
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Is a Māori contact-era population of 100,000 too low? Evidence from population density analogues Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Simon Chapple
This research considers the current New Zealand conventional wisdom of a Māori contact-era population of 100,000 circa-1770 using a variety of population density analogues. The first set of analogues examines estimated population densities of six districts in early-contact period New Zealand for which reasonable population estimates can be constructed using methods of historical demography. The second
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Politics, economics and Native American conflicts Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 R. Warren Anderson
US military sources document more than 1800 conflicts of varying intensity between the United States and tribes from 1830 to 1897. Negative binomial and Tobit regressions both show that hostilities follow political and economic cycles. Politically, conflicts increased in recessionary election years, however, conflicts in non-election recessionary years lack significant changes. The second major trend
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Speculating about genocide: The Queensland frontier 1859–1897 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards
In the colonisation of Queensland, Australia it is commonly accepted that large numbers of Indigenous people were killed in the second half of the nineteenth century. Calculations of violent mortality have recently been revised radically upwards. We suggest that the methodology deployed in these new studies is unreliable, reflecting errors in counting and calculation, as well as underestimating the
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Estimating early contact-era populations for lutruwita (Tasmania) Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Roger Byard, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
While there have been many attempts to calculate pre-contact Aboriginal population sizes for Tasmania, estimates have varied from as little as 800 to as many as 20,000. We adapt a technique employed by Noel Butlin to model Australian continental populations in 1788 to the peculiar circumstances of Tasmania. We conclude that higher, rather than lower, pre-contact populations are likely. While the direct
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Economics and the dreamtime revisited: Creating a truly Australian economic history? Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Boyd Hunter
The Economics and the Dreamtime was a landmark in Australian Economic History where Noel Butlin elevated awareness of the central importance of Indigenous economic history. It was a sprawling inter-disciplinary work that used economic tools to understand Indigenous society before first contact and in the early colonial period. This article revisits that book to provide a critical evaluation of the
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Age misreporting: An empirical investigation using the New Zealand contingents in the Second Boer War Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Geoffrey Brooke, Lydia Cheung
This is a first focused examination of age misreporting in military recruitment. We take advantage of an original dataset comprised of New Zealand military personnel records in the Second Boer War matched with birth historical records. First, we find that age misrepresentation is common: about one third of soldiers on our dataset misreport their ages. Second, we find that soldiers the estimated age-specific
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William Angus Sinclair (1929–2023) Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Lionel Frost, Andrew Seltzer
William Angus (Gus) Sinclair, former president of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand (EHSANZ) and editor of Australian Economic History Review, has passed away, aged 94. Gus was among the last surviving scholars from the group who, alongside Noel Butlin, transformed the discipline in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Edinburgh in 1929, Gus was an infant when his parents migrated to
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Patents, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Australia, 1860–2010 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville
We examine the long run relationship between innovation and economic development in Australia, using 150 years of data on patenting activity, and aggregate and sectoral economic indicators. Our initial results point to several important causal relationships, particularly the effects of patents on real GDP and of private capital formation on patents. We delve deeper at the sector level and find important
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The long-run effects of the imperial bureaucracy: Two tales along the Great Wall of Ming China Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Ming Gao, Qiankun Gu, Shijun He, Dongmin Kong
This article examines the long-term effects of the administrative system using the Great Wall as a geographical discontinuity. Using town-level nighttime light luminosity per capita as a measure of economic development, we find that today, luminosity per capita is significantly and robustly higher in towns south of the Great Wall than in those north of it. The holding of resource allocation authority
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Ebb and flow: Structural and spatial change in Victoria's brewing industry, 1870–1900 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Gavin Wood, Declan Martin, Liz Taylor
The brewing industry has undergone profound structural and spatial change over the last 150 years. We examine how consolidation began in Victoria's brewing industry using a historical GIS approach. We argue that industry restructuring was shaped by four interlocking dynamics between 1870 and 1900: (1) structural economic change; (2) railway development; (3) technological innovation; and (4) regulatory
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The growth of patenting in New Zealand, 1860–99 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Matthew Gibbons, Les Oxley
Patent applications by male New Zealand inventors sharply increased in the early 1880s after initial official fees were reduced, and the requirement to advertise applications in newspapers abolished. Increasingly, however, applications lapsed, while applications by unskilled workers remained low. Non-fee costs were crucially important, with the 1870 reduction in fees failing to increase patenting,
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Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Sebastian Hepburn-Roper
The intertribal Musket wars that spread throughout Māori society in the 1820s and 1830s have received much attention from historians. This is also true of the history of trade between New South Wales and New Zealand occurring at the same time. However, at present, the link between these two phenomena remains poorly established. This article draws on the primary material available about the trans-Tasman
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Sport and Queensland Aboriginal reserves in the 1920s and 1930s: Ideology, revenue, and exploitation Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Gary Osmond, Lionel Frost
Rugby league flourished in the Aboriginal settlements run by the Queensland government in the 1920s and 1930s, as officials relaxed policies of segregation and isolation to allow Aboriginal teams to travel within the state. Revenue from the games, at times significant sums, went to government trust accounts and not directly to the settlements. Available data on this sporting income and government spending
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Stadium financing, usage and the impact of institutional change on consumer demand: The case of VFL Park, 1970–1986 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Vinod Mishra, Luc Borrowman, Lionel Frost, Abdel K. Halabi
Ownership, financing, and usage of stadiums are key issues that affect the commercial operations of sports leagues. Stadiums that are owned by leagues may generate deadweight losses if they are not used to full capacity. We (1) model demand to measure the impact of the Victorian Football League building a privately-funded stadium (VFL Park); (2) then use counterfactual scenarios to estimate social
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Machine-reeling technology diffusion in early Meiji Japan's silk industry Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Shota Moriwaki
Using 1880 s panel data from Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures in Japan, we estimated the diffusion factors and total factor productivity (TFP) in machine-reeling technology in Japan's silk-reeling sector. While the cost of distance through the traditional highway from the Shimosuwa-shuk post town in the Nagano Prefecture has a negative correlation with technology diffusion, the correlation of silk production
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Colonial companies and the cost of introducing Indian immigrants into Fiji, 1884–1916 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Alexander Persaud
Using Fiji as a case study, I conduct the first cost accounting of government-run Indian indentureship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I analyse multiple official data sources and estimate the total cost of bringing Indians to Fiji was £926,851, roughly a fifth of Fiji's reported expenditure. Businesses funded 92.6% of this cost. However, business payments to the government do not appear
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Above board? Interlocking directorates and corporate contagion in 1980s Australia Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Claire E. F. Wright
The 1980s were an outrageous time in Australia's business history. This paper re-examines this era of misconduct, assessing the role of interlocking directorates for corporate governance of diversified business groups. Professional interlocked executives—those with professional training, executive status and mobility between member firms—enabled the takeover culture of the time, and allowed managers
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Malthus and gender Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Alison Bashford
This article re-reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion of men and women, masculinity and femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, the purpose is simply to demonstrate how ‘gender’ was Malthus's own object of inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully and explicitly
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Rich Europe, poor Asia: How wealth inequality, demography, and crop risks explain the poverty of pre-industrial East Asia, 1300–1800 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Yuzuru Kumon
This dissertation was completed at the Department of Economics, University of California Davis, in 2019 under the supervision of Gregory Clark (chair), Michael Carter, Peter Lindert, and Christopher Meissner. Support was provided by the University of California Davis All-University of California Group in Economic History, and the Economic History Association. Highly sophisticated societies had developed
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The Siamese rice trade during the interwar years: Trade pattern, crisis and business survival Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Apicha Chutipongpisit
This article recounts the story of the Siamese rice trade during the interwar years. Many previous studies tend to focus on the Great Depression in 1929 and the decline in the Siamese rice trade. However, export statistics show that Siam continued to export large volumes of rice during this period. This article examines the Siamese rice export patterns and highlights how instrumental Western and Japanese
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Forced displacement in history: Some recent research Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Sascha O. Becker
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarises some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes covered refer to Europe, this survey points to literature across all continents. It highlights new developments
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Determining the reasons for the failure of British aircraft manufacturers to invest in Australia's industry, 1934–1941 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Malcolm Abbott, Jill Bamforth
The aim of the article is to identify the factors that prevented British aircraft manufacturers from investing in Australia in the second half of the 1930s, a period when rearmament was creating demand for aircraft. The article looks at several unsuccessful proposals by British manufacturers to establish factories in Australia to build aircraft in the late 1930s, with additional attention being given
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Revisiting the tariff-growth correlation: The Australasian colonies, 1866–1900 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Brian D. Varian
This article tests for the presence of a tariff-growth correlation among the seven tariff-autonomous colonies of late-nineteenth-century Australasia, making use of several colony-specific macroeconomic series that have only recently become available. Introducing tariffs to a convergence model yields no evidence of an association between tariffs and growth among the Australasian colonies. This finding
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Export development in New Zealand: Kiwifruit and seafood 1975–1985 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Jim McAloon
This paper discusses export development in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s with reference to the long-running literature about the sustainability of natural resource-based growth, export diversification, and the role of state regulation and encouragement. Since 1970 New Zealand's export commodity mix has diversified. Pastoral exports, once dominant, are complemented by seafood, wine, fruit, vegetables
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‘Australian sailors wanted’: Labour supply and Australian shipping, c. 1870–c. 1914 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Dmytro Ostapenko, Diane Kirkby
In the pre-1914 era Australia did not develop an ocean-going merchant navy. The problem is well recognised in previous studies that assumed that it was high Australian wages that made the operational cost of deep-sea vessels uncompetitive on a global scale. This article reconstructs historical shifts in the Australian market for a seagoing workforce and demonstrates there was low recruitment of Australian
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AlexMillmowThe gypsy economist. The life and times of Colin Clark . Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, vii + 396 pp., ISBN 978‐981‐33‐6945‐0 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Claire E. F. Wright
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The great divergence on the Korean peninsula (1910–2020) Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Duol Kim
Before the 1960s, North Korea's GDP per capita was 30%–50% higher than South Korea's due to industrialisation during the 1930s. However, the governments of the two Koreas pursued different goals in the 1960s, which resulted in a reversal. The South Korean government made economic growth its ultimate goal. They did this by self-implementing, adjusting and instituting an export-oriented development strategy
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The economic history of Thailand: Old debates, recent advances, and future prospects Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Panarat Anamwathana, Jessica Vechbanyongratana
Despite slow development of Thai economic history scholarship, research output in the last three decades has shed new light and improved arguments on classic debates using novel primary sources and quantitative methods. This article traces the evolution of three Thai economic history debates from the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries: (1) factors behind Thailand's slow economic growth; (2) the
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Why geography matters to the economic history of India Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-26 Tirthankar Roy
That geography shapes long-run economic change is almost an axiom in economic history, but there is neither adequate understanding nor much agreement about how this influence works. This article is an attempt to contextualise Indian economic history against what we now know of this influence. It is also an attempt to define the geographical condition of the South Asia region in a manner compatible
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Agricultural development in industrialising Japan, 1880–1940 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Yutaka Arimoto, Yoshihiro Sakane
This study reviews research examining agricultural development in industrialising Japan. We focus on the (dys)functioning of markets for land, finance, labour and agricultural commodities. We cover topics including land (mis)allocation, size-productivity relationships, tenancy contract choice and Marshallian inefficiency, property rights, microfinance, shock-coping strategies, rural–urban migration
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Surveys of Asian Economic History: Guest editors' introduction Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Duol Kim,Andrew J. Seltzer
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Industriousness and divergence: Living standards, housework and the Japanese diet in comparative historical perspective Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 Penelope Francks
Quantitative comparisons of living standards across Eurasia continue to conclude that the eastern side of the “great divergence,” including Japan, lagged behind the leading regions of Europe from early-modern times onwards. The “industrious revolution” model attributes this to the early spread in Europe of markets for labour and consumer goods. By contrast, in Japan, persistent household self-sufficiency
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Research in business history: From theorising to bizhismetrics Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Abe De Jong
Empirical work is dominating business history, with a particular emphasis on case research using rich primary sources. I argue that the field of business history would benefit from a balanced combination of theoretical and empirical work. Restoring this balance requires that business historians build theories using their empirical observations. This approach – theorising – may enrich the field of business
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Emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States, Canada and Australia/New Zealand, 1870–1913: Quantity and quality Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Timothy J. Hatton
This paper revisits the determinants of emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States, Canada and Australia/New Zealand from 1870 to 1913. In the absence of restrictive immigration policies, the flow of emigration to these destinations responded to economic shocks and trends. Emigrants to Australia and New Zealand were more skilled on average than those heading across the Atlantic, a feature
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Dry bulk shipping and the evolution of maritime transport costs, 1850–2020 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 David S. Jacks, Martin Stuermer
We provide evidence on the dynamic effects of fuel price shocks, shipping demand shocks and shipping supply shocks on real dry bulk freight rates in the long run. We first analyse a new dataset on dry bulk freight rates for the period from 1850 to 2020, finding that they followed a downward but undulating path with a cumulative decline of 79%. Next, we turn to understanding the drivers of booms and
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Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Laura Panza, Jeffrey G. Williamson
We document the origins of Australia's egalitarianism by quantifying both the level and trends of earnings inequality during 1870–1910 by constructing social tables for earnings, thus overcoming the constraints imposed by the lack of income, tax and wealth data. We find that earnings inequality was much lower in Australia than in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1870 and that there was no
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Return Migration from Nineteenth Century Australia: Key Drivers and Gender Differences Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Tony Ward
This paper sheds new light on return migration from Australia to the UK in the latter nineteenth century. It uses data from shipping records, and from a random sample of the 23,000 Australian‐born in the 1911 Census of England and Wales. Based on these sources, it estimates some 20% of migrants to Australia returned: higher among the wealthy, but still 12% of semi‐ and unskilled working class migrants
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Report of the Editor for 2020 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Kris Inwood
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Making Things Economic: Theory and Government in New South Wales, 1788–1863 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Ben Huf
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Reflections on the Business History Tradition: Where has it Come from and Where is it Going to? Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Monica Keneley
The question of what constitutes the discipline of business history has been the focus of ongoing debate for several decades. The output of business history researchers is diverse ranging from company histories to the application of theoretical frameworks used to interpret the many facets of business development. This article, in introducing this special edition of the Australian Economic History Review
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BIG ECONOMIC HISTORY Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Peter J. Lloyd
This paper reviews the history of human economic activity from the time Homo sapiens appeared to the present. The first aim is to provide a coherent narrative of the economic history of this period. The second aim is to quantify economic activities where time series data is available and to use economic theory to explain the trends and turning points. It examines the history of three central time series
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Smallholder Involvement in Tree Crops in Malaya, with Special Reference to Oil and Coconut Palms in Johor, 1862–1963 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Geoffrey K. Pakiam
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AFTER EMPIRE COMES HOME: ECONOMIC EXPERIENCES OF JAPANESE CIVILIAN REPATRIATES, 1945–56 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Sumiyo Nishizaki
The economic impact of large influxes of population is a complex topic. This research contributes to this field by examining one of the most significant, but least researched, examples of postwar migration – the repatriation of more than six million (including three million civilians and demobilised soldiers each) to Japan after the Second World War. One pervasive image of Japanese civilian repatriates
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SumnerLa Croix, Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Edwyna Harris
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ESTIMATING LONG-RUN INCARCERATION RATES FOR AUSTRALIA, CANADA, ENGLAND AND WALES, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE UNITED STATES Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Andrew Leigh
Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than the entire population, and I discuss why the latter can be misleading. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia
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POPULATION, ECONOMY AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF OSAMU SAITO Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Kris Inwood
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THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: WHY BRITAIN INDUSTRIALISED FIRST Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-18 Philip T. Hoffman
What drove the precocious industrialisation in Britain was not demand for machines but rather (as Joel Mokyr and his co‐authors have argued) the supply of useful knowledge and the skills needed to put it into practice. They were the force behind early innovation. But they did not act alone. They were reinforced by British institutions, which gave the British economy a century's head start over the
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OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA, 1880–2000 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Daan Marks, Winny Bierman, Jan Luiten van Zanden
Osamu Saito's pioneering research into the long‐term changes in occupational structure of Japan has inspired scholars to take a fresh look at structural change in other countries. This article offers a case study of Indonesia. We find a rather slow pace of structural transformation until the 1970s – the immediate post‐war period even saw a reversal of trends. After 1970, during a growth spurt, employment
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THE THOMBO TREASURE. COLONIAL POPULATION ADMINISTRATION AS SOURCE FOR THE HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY OF EARLY MODERN SRI LANKA Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Jan Kok
During their occupation of Sri Lanka (1640–1796) and following Sinhalese and Portuguese practices, the Dutch created an elaborate registration of people, estates, and labour services. The administrative records known as the thombos are incomparable in their level of detail, yet they have hardly been used for the purposes of demographic or economic history. This article describes the challenges involved
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NUTRITION, CROWDING, AND DISEASE AMONG LOW‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN TOKYO IN 1930 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-09 Kota Ogasawara, Ian Gazeley, Eric B. Schneider
This article employs a household survey of low-income working-class households conducted in Tokyo in 1930 to investigate nutritional attainment levels and the relationship between calorie intake and morbidity. We find that the daily calorie intake was 2,118 kcal per adult male equivalent, high enough to satisfy the energy requirements for moderate physical activity. Richer households purchased more
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LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE LONG RUN: JAPAN, 1600–1909 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Tokihiko Settsu, Masanori Takashima
This article examines long‐term labour productivity change in Japan from the early seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. We constructed sectoral labour force estimates based on the methodology presented in a previous study, who provided a sectoral GDP series covering the Tokugawa period. Our results show the industrial structure in the Tokugawa period remained relatively stable in comparison
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Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-01-24 Roger G. Mauldon
Analysis of home consumption pricing by Giblin and Copland in the 1930s preceded the development of an identifiable Australian agricultural economics profession. They demonstrated that costs of increasing domestic prices of agricultural products above export levels would be borne largely by lightly assisted exporters and hinder their development. This work was taken up later within a framework of computable
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INCORPORATION AND COMPANY FORMATION IN AUSTRALASIA, 1790–1860 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Aaron Graham
Nearly 260 companies were founded in and for the Australasian colonies between 1790 and 1860. A quantitative survey suggests that the patterns of incorporation mainly reflected ‘functionalist’ economic factors rather than ‘autonomous’ legal conditions, though the changing nature of company law did influence the various forms that incorporation took. In some sectors, outside factors and even historical
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A Matter of Trust: The Ashby Research Service and the Business of Market Research Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-10-13 Robert Crawford
As Australia's pioneering market research firm, the Ashby Research Service helped introduce market research to Australian businesses and played a leading role in building confidence in market research as a business investment. By examining the firm's activities and organisational operations from the 1930s to the 1970s, this article contends that the establishment, development, maintenance, and deepening
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THE RISE AND FALL OF INDUSTRIALISATION: THE CASE OF A SILK WEAVING DISTRICT IN MODERN JAPAN Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-31 Tomoko Hashino, Keijiro Otsuka
The production of habutae, a simple silk fabric, expanded rapidly between 1890 and 1918 in Japan's Fukui Prefecture, with large exports to Europe and the United States. The production of habutae, initially woven by hand, was labour intensive, but it gradually became capital‐intensive after the introduction of power looms. Production and export of this fabric declined precipitously from 1918. In this
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AlexMillmow, A History of Australasian Economic Thought, London: Routledge, 2017. 250 + VIII pp. ISBN: 9 7811 3886 1008. Hardback, A$210. Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 John Hawkins
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The Making of Australia's Supermarket Duopoly, 1958–2000 Australian Economic History Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-03-11 David T. Merrett
Australian supermarkets had one of the highest levels of concentration among developed economies by 2000. This paper explores the making of a duopoly comprising Coles and Woolworths. We present historical data on market shares in Australia and international comparisons for around 2000. We identify the evolution of their dynamic capabilities through the lens of Teece, Pisano and Shuen's positions, paths