Forming a Colonial Economy - Australia 1810-1850

Klappentext This book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Zusammenfassung This 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australia the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book marks the culmination of a life's work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Part I. Forming an Economy: Introduction; Part II. The Colonial Peopling of Australia: 1788-1850: 1. Introduction; 2. Gross additions to the Australian population; 3. The colonial population stock; 4. Human capital in convicts; Part III. Public Funding of Colonial Development: 1788-1850: 5. Introduction; 6. British fiscal characteristics; 7. The imperial fisc in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land; 8. Broad relations between British and Australian fiscs to 1821; 9. The beginning of local budgeting: real and subterranean budgets; 10. The conventional legal fisc in NSW: 1822-1950; Part IV. The Colonial Australian Economy 1810-40: A Historical, Statistical and Analytical Account: 11. Summary and questions; 12. Towards a private market economy in Australia 1810-40; 13. Structural adjustment and development 1810-40; 14. Growth performance; 15. Instability with special reference to the Depression of the 1840s and recovery; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Noel George Butlin, Butlin Noel George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780521445818
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44581-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Australia, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards