Australian Economic History Review

2003 - 2022

Continued by Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.

Current editor(s): Stephen L Morgan and Martin Shanahan

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Volume 56, issue 3, 2016

A Comparison of Market Integration in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan pp. 246-271

Ke Yao and Xiao-Ping Zheng

The Beginnings of the Japanese Medical Instruments Industry and the Adaptation of Western Medicine to Japan, 1880–1937 pp. 272-291

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Conditions of Successful Land Reform: A Study of Micronesia pp. 292-316

Dongwoo Yoo and Edwyna Harris

Laying the Victorians to Rest: Funerals, Memorials, and the Funeral Business in Nineteenth-Century Otago pp. 317-336

Alexander Trapeznik and Austin Gee

Volume 56, issue 2, 2016

Aspects of Productivity pp. 115-124

Martin Shanahan and Rajabrata Banerjee

The Contribution of Wheat to Australian Agriculture from 1861 to 1939 pp. 125-150

Rajabrata Banerjee and Martin Shanahan

The Geography of Inventiveness in the Primary Sector: Some Initial Results for New Zealand, 1880–1895 pp. 151-173

Rebecca Williams and Les Oxley

A tale of two SICs: Japanese and American industrialisation in historical perspective pp. 174-197

John Tang

A Tale of Two Tails: Establishment Size and Labour Productivity in United States and German Manufacturing at the Start of the Twentieth Century pp. 198-220

Joost Veenstra and Herman Jong

Uniform Service, Uniform Productivity? Regional Efficiency of the Imperial German Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service pp. 221-243

Florian Ploeckl

Volume 56, issue 1, 2016

Long-Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP, 1887–2012 pp. 2-20

Mike Pottenger and Andrew Leigh

Chinese Regions in the Great Divergence: Provincial Gross Domestic Product per Capita, 1873–1918 pp. 21-45

Paul Caruana-Galizia and Ye Ma

Non-Residential Capital Stock in Latin America, 1875–2008: New Estimates and International Comparisons pp. 46-69

Xavier Tafunell and Cristián Ducoing

Do Natural Energy Endowments Matter? New Zealand and Uruguay in a Comparative Perspective, 1870–1940 pp. 70-99

Reto Bertoni and Henry Willebald

Trust, Financial Regulation, and Growth pp. 100-112

Forrest Capie

Volume 55, issue 1, 2015

John Maynard Keynes and the Keynes of the Commonwealth, Douglas Copland pp. 1-19

Alex Millmow

Resourcing War While Containing Inflation: Debate among Australia's Second World War Economists pp. 20-41

Evan Mann

Militarisation and Urbanisation: The Second World War, Public Housing, and the Shaping of Metropolitan Adelaide pp. 42-61

Carol Fort

Sharing Scarcity: Rationing and Price Subsidisation of Tea in Australia, 1942–55 pp. 62-79

Peter Griggs

Divergence and Convergence: New and Shifting Paradigms in Comparative Economic History pp. 80-94

Simon Ville

John F. Wilson, Anthony Webster and Rachael Vorberg-Ruch, Building Co-operation: A Business History of the Co-operative Group, 1863–2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 440 + XIV pp., figure, tables and plates. ISBN: 978 0 19965 511 3. Hardcover £30 pp. 95-97

Gordon Boyce

Keith Hancock, Australian Wage Policy: Infancy and Adolescence. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013. 731 pp., figures, tables and plates. ISBN: 978 1 92206 447 9. Paperback A$77 pp. 97-99

Kosmas Tsokhas

Janette Holcomb, Early Merchant Families of Sydney: Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013. 335 pp. ISBN 978 1 92500 315 4. Paperback A$44 pp. 99-101

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Janis M. Sheldrick, Nature's Line: George Goyder: Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2013. 457 + xiv pp. ISBN: 978 1 86254 825 1. Hardcover A$45 pp. 101-104

Lionel Frost

Volume 54, issue 3, 2014

Symposium on Globalisation: Past, Present and Prospects: Introduction pp. 209-211

Richard Pomfret and Richard Pomfret

Misthinking Globalisation: Twentieth-Century Paradigms and Twenty First-Century Challenges pp. 212-219

Richard Pomfret and Richard Baldwin

Expanding the Division of Labour: Trade Costs and Supply Chains in the Global Economy pp. 220-241

Richard Pomfret and Richard Pomfret

Spanning the Globe: The Rise of Global Communications Systems and the First Globalisation pp. 242-261

Richard Pomfret, Markus Lampe and Florian Ploeckl

The New Globalisation of Intellectual Property Rights: What's New This Time? pp. 262-284

Richard Pomfret and Keith Maskus

Globalisation and Agricultural Trade pp. 285-306

Richard Pomfret and Kym Anderson

Richard S. Grossman, Wrong: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 266 pp. ISBN: 9780199322190. Hardcover A$33.95 pp. 307-309

Richard Pomfret and Jim McAloon

Lucia Coppolaro and Francine McKenzie (eds), A Global History of Trade and Conflict Since 1500. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 252 pp. ISBN: 978 1 13 732682 9. Hardcover A$203.95 pp. 309-311

Richard Pomfret and Kosmas Tsokhas

Alison Alexander, Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010. 318 pp. ISBN: 978 1 77 237205 1. Hardcover A$45 pp. 311-313

Richard Pomfret and David Meredith

Matthew Booker, Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. 278 pp. ISBN: 978 0 52 027320 7. Hardcover A$33.50 pp. 313-315

Richard Pomfret and Ruth Morgan

Volume 54, issue 2, 2014

Essays in Latin American Business and Economic History: Introduction pp. 93-94

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch, María Inés Barbero and Andrea Lluch

The Contribution of Exports to the Mexican Economy During the First Globalisation (1870–1929) pp. 95-119

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch and Sandra Kuntz Ficker

American & Foreign Power in Argentina and Brazil (1926–65) pp. 120-144

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch, Norma S. Lanciotti and Alexandre Macchione Saes

Multinational Corporations, Property Rights, and Legitimization Strategies: US Investors in the Argentine and Peruvian Oil Industries in the Twentieth Century pp. 145-163

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch, Marcelo Bucheli and Gonzalo Romero Sommer

The Evolution of a Socially Committed Business Group in Colombia, 1911–85 pp. 164-182

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch, Carlos Dávila and José Camilo Dávila

Corporate Networks and Business Groups in Argentina in the Early 1970s pp. 183-208

María Inés Barbero, Andrea Lluch, Andrea Lluch, Erica Salvaj Carrera and María Inés Barbero

Volume 54, issue 1, 2014

Economic Stagnation and Crisis in Korea during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries pp. 1-13

Young Hoon Rhee

Intragenerational Income Mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1925–94: Before, during, and after the Rise of the Welfare State pp. 14-36

Birgitta Jansson

‘Does Farming Pay in Victoria?’ Profit Potential of the Farming Industry in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Victoria pp. 37-61

Dmytro Ostapenko

The Spanish Origins of Extractive Institutions in the Philippines pp. 62-82

Prince Cruz

David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. New York, Oxford University Press, 2013. xi + 255 pp. ISBN: 978 0 19 991495 1. Hardcover AUD35.95 pp. 83-84

Lionel Frost

Jim McAloon, Judgements of All Kinds: Economic Policy-making in New Zealand 1945–1984. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2013. 281 pp. ISBN: 9780864738974. Paperback NZ$50 pp. 84-85

John Singleton

Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2011. xiii + 434 pp. ISBN 978 1 74237 748 3. Hardback A$39.99 pp. 86-89

Ian Keen

Timothy Bottoms, Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's Frontier Killing Times. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2013. 258 pp. ISBN 978 1 74331 382 4, A$32.99 pp. 89-92

Seán Kerins

Volume 53, issue 3, 2013

Market‐Supporting Institutions, Gild Organisations, and the Industrial Revolution: A Comparative View pp. 221-246

Li Tan

We Used to Get and Give a Lot of Help: Networking, Cooperation and Knowledge Flow in the Hunter Valley Wine Cluster pp. 247-267

Julie McIntyre, Rebecca Mitchell, Brendan Boyle and Shaun Ryan

Robert Kuok: Family, Dialect, and State in the Making of a Malaysian Magnate pp. 268-291

Lee Kam Hing, Cheong Kee Cheok and Lee Poh Ping

A History of Australian Corporate Bonds pp. 292-317

Susan Black, Joshua Kirkwood, Thomas Williams and Alan Rai

Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change – By Barrie Dyster and David Meredith pp. 318-320

Jeff Borland

Global industry, Local Innovation: the History of Cane Sugar Production in Australia, 1820–1995 – By Peter D. Griggs pp. 320-321

Simon Ville

The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000 – Edited by Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter pp. 322-325

Toby Slade

The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Anti‐trust Exemption – By Stuart Banner pp. 325-326

Chris Davies

Frontier History Revisited: Colonial Queensland and the ‘History War’ – By Robert Ørsted‐Jensen pp. 326-328

Boyd Hunter

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 – By M. Freeman, R. Pearson and J. Taylor pp. 328-329

Simon Ville

Volume 53, issue 2, 2013

The Current State of Business History in Latin America pp. 109-120

Carlos Dávila

Trade, the Staple Theory of Growth, and Fluctuations in Colonial Singapore, 1900–39 pp. 121-145

Keen Meng Choy and Ichiro Sugimoto

Institution Building and Variation in the Formation of the Australian Wool Market pp. 146-166

David Merrett and Simon Ville

The Motivation and Effectiveness of Gas Industry Economic Regulation in New South Wales, 1912–39 pp. 167-186

Malcolm Abbott

Douglas Copland's Battle With The Younger Brethren of Economists pp. 187-209

Alex Millmow

Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth – By Ian W. McLean pp. 210-214

Timothy Hatton

Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.‐Canadian Borderlands – By Kornel Chang pp. 214-216

Rodney Noonan

Volume 53, issue 1, 2013

Worship Associations in Taiwan pp. 1-21

Hui‐Wen Koo

Work and Wages at a Melbourne Factory, the Guest Biscuit Works 1870–1921 pp. 22-46

Charles Fahey and Andre Sammartino

The Industrial Impact of Monetary Shocks During the Inflation‐Targeting Era in Australia pp. 47-71

Joaquin Vespignani

The Environmental Impacts of the Victorian Gold Rushes: Miners' Accounts during the First Five Years pp. 72-90

Warwick Frost

The Economic Benefits of the Biological Control of Rabbits in Australia, 1950–2011 pp. 91-107

Brian Cooke, Peter Chudleigh, Sarah Simpson and Glen Saunders