Why Australia prospered
Subtitle: the shifting sources of economic growth
By: Ian W. McLean
Series: The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691154671
Subjects: Economic policy; Economic development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: Map; title: Introduction : weaving analysis and narrative; title: What is to be explained, and how comparative levels of gdp per capita -booms, busts, and stagnation in domestic prosperity; title: Origins : an economy built from scratch?; title: Squatting, colonial autocracy, and imperial policies; title: Becoming very rich; title: Depression, drought, and federation; title: A succession of negative shocks; title: The pacific war and the second golden age; title: Shocks, policy shifts, and another long boom; title: The shifting bases of prosperity; title: References; title: Index.