Australian Economic History Review

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Volume 61, issue 1, 2021

Report of the Editor for 2020 pp. 2-9

Kris Inwood

Big Economic History pp. 10-44

Peter J. Lloyd

Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia pp. 45-63

Roger G. Mauldon

Stopping them Using Our Boats pp. 64-79

Michael Williams

Return Migration from Nineteenth Century Australia: Key Drivers and Gender Differences pp. 80-101

Tony Ward

Made in Chinatown: Chinese Furniture Factories in Australia, 1880–1930 pp. 102-108

Peter Gibson

The Australian Treasurers pp. 109-116

John Hawkins

Making Things Economic: Theory and Government in New South Wales, 1788–1863 pp. 117-125

Ben Huf

Volume 60, issue 3, 2020

Reflections on the Business History Tradition: Where has it Come from and Where is it Going to? pp. 282-300

Monica Keneley

The Making of Australia's Supermarket Duopoly, 1958–2000 pp. 301-321

David T. Merrett

Incorporation and Company Formation in Australasia, 1790–1860 pp. 322-345

Aaron Graham

A Matter of Trust: The Ashby Research Service and the Business of Market Research pp. 346-371

Robert Crawford

The Market Gardens of Dark Dragon Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, 1876–1930 pp. 372-393

Peter Gibson

Volume 60, issue 2, 2020

Announcements pp. 124-125

Lionel Frost

The Great Divergence: Why Britain Industrialised First pp. 126-147

Philip Hoffman

Estimating Long‐Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, and the United States pp. 148-185

Andrew Leigh

Living Costs and Real Wages in Nineteenth Century Lima: Levels and International Comparisons pp. 186-219

Luis Zegarra

Unleash the Pandora's Box: Political Turmoil and Malaria Outbreak During China's Cultural Revolution pp. 220-249

Youhong Lin

Meritocracy in Autocracies: Origins and Consequences pp. 250-258

Weijia Li

After Empire Comes Home: Economic Experiences of Japanese Civilian Repatriates, 1945–56 pp. 259-267

Sumiyo Nishizaki

Smallholder Involvement in Tree Crops in Malaya, with Special Reference to Oil and Coconut Palms in Johor, 1862–1963 pp. 268-275

Geoffrey K. Pakiam

Sumner La Croix, Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019 pp. 276-279

Edwyna Harris

Volume 60, issue 1, 2020

POPULATION, ECONOMY AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF OSAMU SAITO pp. 2-4

Kris Inwood

LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE LONG RUN: JAPAN, 1600–1909 pp. 5-26

Tokihiko Settsu and Masanori Takashima

OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA, 1880–2000 pp. 27-45

Daan Marks, Winny Bierman and Jan Luiten van Zanden

THE RISE AND FALL OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: THE CASE OF A SILK WEAVING DISTRICT IN MODERN JAPAN pp. 46-72

Tomoko Hashino and Keijiro Otsuka

NUTRITION, CROWDING, AND DISEASE AMONG LOW‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN TOKYO IN 1930 pp. 73-104

Kota Ogasawara, Ian Gazeley and Eric Schneider

THE THOMBO TREASURE. COLONIAL POPULATION ADMINISTRATION AS SOURCE FOR THE HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY OF EARLY MODERN SRI LANKA pp. 105-121

Jan Kok

Volume 59, issue 3, 2019

Financial Revolution in Republican China During 1900–37: A Survey and a New Interpretation pp. 242-262

Debin Ma

Turning Points in the Chinese Civil War: A Financial Market Perspective pp. 263-288

Anthony Howell and Liuyan Zhao

The Quality Problem and Quality Checking System in Export Transactions in Modern China pp. 289-308

Masataka Setobayashi

Sterling's Persistence as a Reserve Currency: Australia and Reserves Pooling, 1950–68 pp. 309-337

Francis Kennedy

Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes, Ceo Society: The Corporate Takeover Of Everyday Life. London: Zed Books Ltd., 2018. 281 pp. ISBN: 9 7817 8699 0723. Paperback $25.00 pp. 338-341

Kosmas Tsokhas

Volume 59, issue 2, 2019

A View of the Occupational Structure in Imperial and Republican China (1640–1952) pp. 134-158

Yongqin Guo, Zipeng Zhang, Bas van Leeuwen and Yi Xu

Railways and the Exploitation of Victoria's Forests, 1880s–1920s pp. 159-180

André Brett

Stadiums and Scheduling: Measuring Deadweight Losses in the Victorian Football League, 1920–70 pp. 181-201

Lionel Frost, Luc Borrowman and Abdel K. Halabi

Was It Possible to Stabilise the Price of Wool? Organised Wool Marketing 1916 to 1970 pp. 202-227

Malcolm Abbott and David Merrett

Bernard Mees and Cathy Brigden, Workers’ Capital Industry Funds and the Fight for Universal Superannuation in Australia, Sydney, Allen and Unwin 2017 pp. 228-230

Monica Keneley

Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 266 + XV pp. ISBN: 978 0 691 16545 5. Hardback US$29.95 pp. 230-234

Kosmas Tsokhas

Alex Millmow, A History of Australasian Economic Thought, London: Routledge, 2017. 250 + VIII pp. ISBN: 9 7811 3886 1008. Hardback, A$210 pp. 234-236

John Hawkins

Francesco Boldizzoni and Pat Hudson (eds), Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History. London: Routledge, 2016. xv + 471 pp. ISBN: 9 7811 3883 8031. Hardback, A$368 pp. 236-238

Simon Ville

Volume 59, issue 1, 2019

From First Canoe to Statehood: Eight Hundred Years of Economic and Political Change in Hawaii pp. 2-23

Sumner La Croix

Size and Structure of Disaster Relief when State Capacity is Limited: China’s 1823 Flood pp. 24-54

Yuping Ni and Martin Uebele

Reconsidering Women's Role in the Professionalisation of the Economy: Evidence from the Australian Census 1881–1947 pp. 55-79

Hannah Forsyth

State Capacity and the Economic History of Colonial India pp. 80-102

Tirthankar Roy

Banking in the Shadows: A Comparative Study of China and India pp. 103-131

Rashmi U. Arora and Quanda Zhang

Volume 58, issue 3, 2018

Firm Performance and Market Behaviour: The Scholarship of David Merrett pp. 222-232

Simon Ville

Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970 pp. 233-264

Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale

Owners and Tenants: The Commonwealth Housing Commission and Post‐War Housing, 1943–1949 pp. 265-282

Stuart Macintyre

Corporate Restructuring and Leveraged Buyouts in the Asia Pacific 1980–2010 pp. 283-314

Grant Fleming

The Response of Corporate Strategy to Competitive Challenges: The Predicament of Australian Mutual Insurers 1970–2000 pp. 315-337

Monica J. Keneley

The Functions of Australian Banks’ Branch Networks: The Diversification of Risks and Spatial Allocation of Capital pp. 338-361

Andrew Seltzer

Volume 58, issue 2, 2018

Publication Trends and Future Challenges for the Australian Economic History Review: A Bibliometric Analysis pp. 112-133

Andrew Seltzer

Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s: An Extension to Asia pp. 134-152

Chien‐Jung Ting and Tai‐Kuang Ho

Alfred Marshall, Silver, and China pp. 153-175

Liuyan Zhao and Yan Zhao

Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy; New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945‐1975 pp. 176-180

David Hall

Fighting Fit: A History of Innovation in the Australian Government Clothing Factory and in the Transformation of the Australian Army Uniform, 1912‐1995 pp. 181-187

Anneke van Mosseveld

Risen from Chaos: The Development of Modern Education in China, 1905‐1948 pp. 187-192

Pei Gao

Economic Performance and Social Conflicts in Chinese History pp. 192-197

Cong Liu

Traditions and Innovations: An Exploration of the Governance Structure, Business Strategy and hIstorical Development of the Chinese Shanxi Piaohao, 1820s to 1930s pp. 197-205

Meng Wu

John Connor, Peter Stanley, and Peter Yule, The War at Home. Volume 4, Centenary History of Australia and the Great War. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015, xi + 284 pp. ISBN: 9780195576788. Hardcover, $59.95 AUD pp. 206-207

Kate Darian‐Smith

Samuel Furphy (ed.), The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post‐War Reconstruction Era, Canberra: ANU Press, 2015. 246 + XXI pp. ISBN 9781925022322. Paperback, A$38.00 pp. 207-212

Kosmas Tsokhas

Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama (Editors) Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 330 + xviii pp., figure, tables, Index. ISBN: 9780198739005. Hardcover £60.00 pp. 212-214

Martin Shanahan

Stuart Macintyre, Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2015. 596 + XI pp. plates. ISBN: 9781742231129. Paperback A$34.99 pp. 214-217

Kosmas Tsokhas

Ruth A. Morgan, Running Out? Water in Western Australia. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2015. 320 pp. ISBN: 9781742586236, AU$34.99 pp. 217-219

Char Miller

Volume 58, issue 1, 2018

The Long†Term Consequences of Cultural Distance on Migration: Historical Evidence from China pp. 2-35

Nan Li

Colonial Taiwan's Financial Revolution pp. 36-61

Kelly Barton Olds

Convict Transportation to New South Wales, 1787–1849: Mortality Rates Reconsidered pp. 62-86

Gary L. Sturgess, Sara Rahman and George Argyrous

Australia's Bankrupt Chinese Furniture Manufacturers, 1880–1930 pp. 87-107

Peter Gibson