Australian Economic History Review

2003 - 2022

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Volume 62, issue 1, 2022

Forced displacement in history: Some recent research pp. 2-25

Sascha Becker

Industriousness and divergence: Living standards, housework and the Japanese diet in comparative historical perspective pp. 26-46

Penelope Francks

Revisiting the tariff‐growth correlation: The Australasian colonies, 1866–1900 pp. 47-65

Brian Varian

Research in business history: From theorising to bizhismetrics pp. 66-79

Abe De Jong

Export development in New Zealand: Kiwifruit and seafood 1975–1985 pp. 80-100

Jim McAloon

Volume 61, issue 3, 2021

Surveys of Asian Economic History: Guest editors' introduction pp. 248-251

Duol Kim and Andrew J. Seltzer

Fenjiashu: Economic development in the Chinese countryside based on household division inventories, ca. 1750–1910 pp. 252-272

Meimei Wang and Bas van Leeuwen

Why geography matters to the economic history of India pp. 273-289

Tirthankar Roy

Agricultural development in industrialising Japan, 1880–1940 pp. 290-317

Yutaka Arimoto and Yoshihiro Sakane

The great divergence on the Korean peninsula (1910–2020) pp. 318-341

Duol Kim

The economic history of Thailand: Old debates, recent advances, and future prospects pp. 342-358

Panarat Anamwathana and Jessica Vechbanyongratana

The state in Chinese economic history pp. 359-395

Jiwei Qian and Tuan‐Hwee Sng

Volume 61, issue 2, 2021

Globalisation, migration, trade and growth: Honouring the contribution of Jeff Williamson to Australian and Asia‐Pacific economic history—Guest Editor's introduction pp. 128-135

Andrew J. Seltzer

Emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States, Canada and Australia/New Zealand, 1870–1913: Quantity and quality pp. 136-158

Timothy Hatton

Four great Asian trade collapses pp. 159-185

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe and Kevin O'Rourke

Commodity boom‐bust cycles and the resource curse in Australia: 1900 to 2007 pp. 186-203

Sambit Bhattacharyya

Dry bulk shipping and the evolution of maritime transport costs, 1850–2020 pp. 204-227

David Jacks and Martin Stuermer

Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910 pp. 228-246

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

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