ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302001

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The pertinent question about China’s economic performance from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries is less why she did not have a European–style industrial revolution than why even her own Song dynasty achievement was not repeated. Supposed explanations which appear in the literature are discussed: no scientific revolution; technological regression; population pressure; Confucian values; and the institutions within the Ming–Qing state. It is suggested that while the substitutes for direct economic policy and independent law were sufficient to permit the economy to expand, they restricted the market enough to prevent a return to previous levels of activity.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302002

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302003

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The convicts transported to NSW between 1817 and 1840 were young, fit, highly literate and brought occupational skills which were broadly representative of the British and Irish working classes. In the colonial labour market where convicts were coerced, more labour was forthcoming and at a lower wage than in a free labour market. The assignment of convict labour in the colony was efficient; skilled urban and construction tradesmen were employed in the same jobs in NSW as they had held in Britain. Domestic servants and unskilled urban workers whose skills were not suited to the needs of the colony experienced job restructuring. The organization of convict workers into teams and gangs in Australia was similar to the way work was organized in free labour Britain, and a mbc of incentives and rewards characterized the extraction of work from convicts. The human capital of the transportees and the labour system within which they worked help to explain the rapid growth of the colonial economy before 1840.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302004

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Convict workers, edited by Stephen Nicholas, offers a new interpretation of convictism in Australia. The main new findings are that (1) convicts were not professional criminals but ordinary British and Irish working–class men and women, and (2) the system of assigning convicts to private employers was economically efficient. This review suggests that these findings are not supported by the evidence presented.

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302005

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The Australian economy in the long-run, edited by R. Maddock and I.W. McLean, is a recent and comprehensive attempt by a younger generation of economists and economic historians to view current economic problems against the broader background of the twentieth century Clearly the book was written with an audience of economists, largely undergraduate, in mind. The interesting questions, therefore, are: have the contributors provided an interpretation essentially different from that of the previous generation and has their intended audience been well served?

ISSN:0004-8992    

DOI:10.1111/aehr.302006

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY