摘要:

Annual estimates of the GDP of Victoria for the period 1861–1976/77 are here presented and used as a basis for an analysis of Victoria’s long–run economic growth. Victoria is represented as having fallen behind the per capita GDP of Australia as a whole in the 1870s but to have out–paced the national growth rate from the early twentieth century until the late 1950s. The changing importance of natural resources and of the scope for manufacturing development are seen as the basis for an explanation of the Victorian divergence. The article carries the implication of a need for regional disaggregation in the analysis of Australian economic growth.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362001

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

One of the least studied aspects of Australian economic history is technological change. This article addresses the subject by using patent statistics from nineteenth–century Victoria to examine the determinants of the supply of inventive ideas in the late colonial era. Such an examination indicates that, while both demand– and supply–side features clearly had roles to play in influencing the volume of ideas that emerged, it was the expansion and diversification of Australian markets in the latter half of the century that was most important. These findings also suggest that development and introduction of new technological ideas in pre–Federation Australia were predominantly economic activities shaped by local considerations.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362002

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study forms part of a larger project which investigates how political, bureaucratic, and economic forces influenced the historical development of the Wakool Irrigation District and the Tullakool Irrigation Area in south–west New South Wales between 1930 and 1995. The article itself focusses on the NSW government’s Second World War rice–growing project at Wakool both as a unique exercise in itself and also to explore some historical reasons behind an important policy shift and associated fundamental changes in subsequent land– use, settlement patterns, and environmental amenity in the area.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362003

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Series of disaggregated capital formation in the New Zealand public sector prior to 1950 remain scarce despite thirty years having passed since the series for the period 1871–1900 were compiled by J.A. Dowie. Even within his series there can be problems utilizing the estimates because of the aggregated nature of some outlay categories. The capital stock series are more deficient, reflecting methodological problems with the preparation of such series from capital formation data. Using the Dowie series as a point of reference this article focusses on one important area of public capital stock, transport infrastructure. The resulting estimates allow some exploration of public policies in respect of the provision of transport infrastructure.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362004

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br1

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br2

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br3

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br4

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br5

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.362br6

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY