{"product_id":"forming-a-colonial-economy-australia-1810-1850-hardback-9780521440066","title":"Forming a Colonial Economy; Australia 1810–1850 (Hardback) 9780521440066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForming a Colonial Economy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAustralia 1810–1850\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNoel George Butlin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521440066, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 December 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 20 b\/w illus.  55 tables\u003cbr\u003e25.6 x 18.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.701 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This volume is perhaps most original for its foray into the largely unexplored topics of early public finance in Australia and the effect of British fiscal policies.  It adds appreciably to the corpus of Butlin's work.\"   American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Forming an Economy: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Colonial Peopling of Australia: 1788–1850: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gross additions to the Australian population\u003cbr\u003e 3. The colonial population stock\u003cbr\u003e 4. Human capital in convicts\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Public Funding of Colonial Development: 1788–1850: 5. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 6. British fiscal characteristics\u003cbr\u003e 7. The imperial fisc in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land\u003cbr\u003e 8. Broad relations between British and Australian fiscs to 1821\u003cbr\u003e 9. The beginning of local budgeting: real and subterranean budgets\u003cbr\u003e 10. The conventional legal fisc in NSW: 1822–1950\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Colonial Australian Economy 1810–40: A Historical, Statistical and Analytical Account: 11. Summary and questions\u003cbr\u003e 12. Towards a private market economy in Australia 1810–40\u003cbr\u003e 13. Structural adjustment and development 1810–40\u003cbr\u003e 14. Growth performance\u003cbr\u003e 15. Instability with special reference to the Depression of the 1840s and recovery\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Australasian%20\u0026amp;%20Pacific%20history%20%5BHBJM%5D%22\"\u003eHBJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912988877080,"sku":"9780521440066","price":76.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521445818_58cf0b3f-4787-4f45-b815-080bfb38e93a.jpg?v=1691381889","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/forming-a-colonial-economy-australia-1810-1850-hardback-9780521440066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}