{"title":"The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929–39 – By Alex Millmow","authors":"B. Attard","doi":"10.1111/J.1467-8446.2011.00326.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2011.00326.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2011.00326.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63406001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Economic History: a Very Short Introduction – By Robert C. Allen","authors":"G. Magee","doi":"10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00344.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00344.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00344.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63406547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Up From the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909 to 1968 – By Andrew Reeves","authors":"C. Fahey","doi":"10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00343.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00343.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1467-8446.2012.00343.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63406471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goverment and the Colonial Economies: A Reply to Frost","authors":"H. Boot","doi":"10.1111/1467-8446.00057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-8446.00057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Market! To Market! The Changing Role of the Australian Timber Merchant, 1945–c.1965","authors":"R. Harris","doi":"10.1111/1467-8446.00054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00054","url":null,"abstract":"In urban Australia, timber merchants have been the most important of all building supply dealers. In the 1940s they had close ties to sawmillers while providing timber and credit to contractors. A changing business climate forced them to adapt: sawmills and large builders began to deal directly; competition from timber ‘substitutes’ cut profits; above all, demand from amateur builders soared. Merchants responded by diversifying, relocating, and offering advice and credit, although more slowly than their North American counterparts because of their closer linkages to the timber trade. Targeted at amateurs, these adaptations also helped small commercial operators to remain competitive with a new breed of project builders.","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-8446.00054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goverment and the Colonial Economies: An Alternative View","authors":"L. Frost","doi":"10.1111/1467-8446.00056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00056","url":null,"abstract":"Government is one of the crucial institutions that shape the development of economies and in a recent issue of this journal H. M. Boot contributed a useful survey of its effects on Australia during the colonial period. Boot emphasized the beneficial effects of government in terms of creating stability and secure property rights, but also argued that important decisions about capital works came to be influenced more by political expediency than by sound economic criteria. This flawed decision-making process created a significant field of unproductive investments which ‘crowded out’ private-sector activity and weakened the economy. The purpose of this article is to examine this argument closely and critically. It will argue that there is no evidence to support the contention that politicians saw public works simply as an opportunity to buy votes and that an awareness of the costs of unproductive investment forced Parliament to use market-based criteria to assess proposed spending. The article will suggest an alternative explanation of the failure of the private sector to generate sufficient investment to increase the rate of economic growth, and of the extent to which public investment crowded out the private sector.","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-8446.00056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"F. L. McDougall: Éminence grise of Australian Economic Diplomacy","authors":"S. Turnell","doi":"10.1111/1467-8446.00055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00055","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the principal economic ideas of F. L. McDougall, a largely forgotten, sometime government official and ‘amateur’ economist who exercised an enigmatic influence upon Australia's economic diplomacy in the interwar years. Beginning with his conception of ‘sheltered markets’, the international manifestation of the Bruce Government’s vision for Australia of ‘men, money, and markets’, the paper explores McDougall’s later advocacy of a ‘nutrition approach’ to world agriculture and its extension into ‘economic appeasement’. McDougall’s ideas were theoretically unsophisticated, and realized little in the way of immediate achievements. In the longer run they could be viewed more favourably. Naive perhaps and idealistic certainly, McDougall’s ideas were part of a broader movement that, after the Second World War, redefined the role of international economic institutions. If nothing else, McDougall’s active proselytizing of his ideas lent Australia an unusual ‘voice’ in international forums at a time when it was scarcely heard.","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-8446.00055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘Enfant Terrible’: Australia and the Reconstruction of the Multilateral Trade system, 1946–8","authors":"A. Capling","doi":"10.1111/1467-8446.00053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00053","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years Australia has been recognized as a prominent player in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Less well known is Australia’s activism during the establishment of the GATT. This article, based on archival sources and contemporary accounts, examines Australia’s role in the birth of the multilateral trade system. It seeks to nuance the two conventional interpretations of this period, the first which argues that countries joined the GATT because it was in their economic interests to do so, and the second which suggests that the United States hegemony imposed its trade liberalization objectives on less powerful allies and trade partners.","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-8446.00053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convention and contradiction: representations of women in Australian war films, 1914-1918.","authors":"D Reynaud","doi":"10.1080/10314619908596099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10314619908596099","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the representation of women in Australian cinematic war dramas made between 1914 and 1918, showing how the representations were shaped by political, industrial and ideological influences and identifying the range of representations present in the films. It observes that while there was considerable overlap with other media in the representation of women, there were images ignored by films, while others were unique to the cinema.","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10314619908596099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28203881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Randal G.Stewart, ed., Government and business relations in Australia (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1994. Pp. xxvi + 357.)","authors":"J. Edwards","doi":"10.1111/AEHR.361BR3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/AEHR.361BR3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54143,"journal":{"name":"Australian Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/AEHR.361BR3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62739505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}