The Cambridge Economic History Australia Hardcover Cambridge Univ… 9781107029491

The Cambridge Economic History of Australia\n\nProvides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of Australia's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future in an engaging, contemporary narrative.\n\nSimon Ville (Edited by), Glenn Withers (Edited by)\n\n9781107029491 (SKU 3277451), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 8 October 2014\n\n624 pages\n23.6 x 16 x 4.2 cm, 1.13 kg\n\nAustralia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging,]