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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Map
Chapter 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative
Chapter 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How
Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita
Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity
Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity
From Evidence to Analysis
Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation
Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography
Recent Themes in Growth Economics
Chapter 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch?
The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines
The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy
The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market
Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later Prosperity
British Subsidies and Australian Living Standards
Chapter 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies
Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient
Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government
The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration
Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847
Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity
The Argentine Road Not Taken
Chapter 5 Becoming Very Rich
The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource Curse
Sustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes
Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter-Selector Conflict
Openness and Growth
Rural Productivity and Its Sources
Chapter 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation
Explaining Relative Incomes
Eating the Seed Corn?
Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt Crisis
Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies
Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken
Economic Effects of Federation
Accounting for the Loss of the “Top Spot” in Income Per Capita
Chapter 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks
Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe?
Why No Return to Normalcy?
Pursuing Rural Development—A Field of Dreams?
Growth in Other Settler Economies
Debt Crisis, Then Depression—Policy Responses and Constraints
Imperial Economic Links—Declining Net Benefits
Could the Post-1960 Mineral Boom Have Occurred Earlier?
The Debate over Stagnant Living Standards
Chapter 8 The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age
Why the Pacific War Fostered Domestic Growth
The Golden Age Was Not Uniquely Australian
Export Growth, Factor Inflows, and the Korean War Wool Boom
Macroeconomic Theory and Policies—What Role?
Location Advantage: Asian Industrialization and Changing Trade Partners
High Tide for Australian Industrialization
Underinvestment in Human Capital?
The Debate over Postwar Growth Performance
Chapter 9 Shocks, Policy Shifts, and Another Long Boom
Why Did the Postwar Economic Boom End?
The Reemergence of a Booming Mining Sector
Macroeconomic Management in the 1970s
Economic Policy Shifts in the 1980s
Reevaluations
The Quarry Economy: The Return of Resources-Based Prosperity
The Contribution of Economic Reforms to Productivity
Sustaining Prosperity through Boom and Bubble—A Historical Perspective
Chapter 10 The Shifting Bases of Prosperity
Appendix Note on Statistics and Sources
References
Index
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