International Business in Australia before World War One
Title | International Business in Australia before World War One PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Ville |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-09-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811904812 |
This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914. Multinational enterprise arrived predominantly from Britain, but other sender nations included the USA, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Japan. Their firms spread out across Australia from mining and pastoral communities, to portside industries and CBD precincts, and they operated broadly across mining, trading, shipping, insurance, finance, and manufacturing. They were a remarkably diverse population of firms by size, organisational form, and longevity. This is a rare study of the impact of multinationals on a host nation, particularly before World War One, and that focuses on a successful resource-based economy. Deploying a database of more than 600 firms, supported by contemporary archives and publications, the work reveals how multinational influence was contested by domestic enterprise, other foreign firms, and the strategic investments of governments in network industries. Nonetheless, foreign agency – particularly investment, knowledge and entrepreneurship – mattered in the economic development of Australia in the nineteenth as well as the twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in Australian and international economic and business history, the history of economic growth and scholars of international business.
Forming a Colonial Economy
Title | Forming a Colonial Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Noel George Butlin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521445818 |
This broad-ranging 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy includes background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic, and military history and a detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over a period of sixty years. He goes on to explore the role of private investment in the economy and the way in which dependence on the British public purse was replaced by dependence on private British capital inflow. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the Australian economy was independent or externally driven, that is, the level of synergism between Australia and Britain. Within this framework, Noel Butlin discusses the central issues of human capital and funding and their impact on the formation of the Australian economy. Forming a Colonial Economy does for the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for Australia from the 1860s to the 1890s. It is an ambitious and imaginative book that marks the culmination of a life's work.
Shaping a Nation
Title | Shaping a Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Blewett |
Publisher | Geoscience Australia |
Pages | 571 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781921862823 |
"Shaping a nation : a geology of Australia is the story of Australia's geological evolution as seen through the lens of human impacts, illustrating both the challenges and opportunities presented by Australia's rich geological heritage" -- Dustjacket blurb.
The Australian Economy in the Long Run
Title | The Australian Economy in the Long Run PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Maddock |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1987-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521339339 |
Notes on the Shape of the Australian Economy, 1861-1900
Title | Notes on the Shape of the Australian Economy, 1861-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Noel George Butlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 1957* |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
The Shape of the Australian Economy,1861-1900
Title | The Shape of the Australian Economy,1861-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Noel George Butlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Inclusive Growth in Australia
Title | Inclusive Growth in Australia PDF eBook |
Author | John Buchanan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000257533 |
Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency. It reflects a global resurgence of the understanding that an active and effective social policy regime is vital not only for a flourishing society, but also for a strong economy. It explains this new paradigm of inclusive growth and shows how it can be implemented in Australia. Inclusive growth dismantles the idea that social development will automatically trickle down from untrammelled market based growth. Rather, growth must be managed so that it is employment centred, broad based across sectors and with a social security system promoting sustainability and equality of opportunity. The editors argue that productivity is 'nearly everything' when it comes to raising living standards. So while social policies will be about goals other than the economy, they must demonstrate their compatibility with an economic growth strategy. With contributions from leading national and international experts in the field including Marian Baird, Grant Belchamber, Gerald Burke, Saul Eslake, Roy Green and Peter Whiteford, Inclusive Growth in Australia shows that 'welfare state' spending is as much an economic investment as a measure of social protection. Written for policy makers, industry and NGOs as well as students, Inclusive Growth in Australia locates Australian economic and social policy within the most important emergent themes shaping international debate.