Screen LibraryWhy Australia prospered：the shifting sources of economic growth
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ |
| Publication Dates: | c2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Princeton economic history of the Western world |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 281 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691154671 (hardcover) 0691154678 (hardcover) 9780691171333 (paperback) 0691171335 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | F826 |
| CLC: | F826.115 |
| Call Number: | F826.115/M163 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface and acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction : weaving analysis and narrative -- What is to be explained, and how comparative levels of gdp per capita -booms, busts, and stagnation in domestic prosperity -- Origins : an economy built from scratch? -- Squatting, colonial autocracy, and imperial policies -- Becoming very rich -- Depression, drought, and federation -- A succession of negative shocks -- The pacific war and the second golden age -- Shocks, policy shifts, and another long boom -- The shifting bases of prosperity -- References -- Index. |