Why Australia Prospered : : The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth / / Ian W. McLean.
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 28 line illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Map
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative
- Chapter 2. What Is to Be Explained, and How
- Chapter 3. Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch?
- Chapter 4. Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies
- Chapter 5. Becoming Very Rich
- Chapter 6. Depression, Drought, and Federation
- Chapter 7. A Succession of Negative Shocks
- Chapter 8. The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age
- Chapter 9. Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom
- Chapter 10. The Shifting Bases of Prosperity
- Appendix: Note on Statistics and Sources
- References
- Index
- Backmatter