Australia's Economy in its International Context

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The Joseph Fisher Lectures

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FREE | 2009 | Electronic (PDF) | 978-0-9806723-5-0 | 598 ppÌý|Ìý(vol. 1)

FREE | 2012 | Electronic (PDF) | 978-1-922064-43-1 | 705 ppÌý|Ìý(vol. 2)

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    Preface
    Kym Anderson
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    The benefactor Joseph Fisher
    F. R. Fisher
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    The lectures
    Kym Anderson
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    The lecturers
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    1. 1904 – Commercial education
    Henry G. Turner
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    2. 1906 — Commercial character
    Lewis A. Jessop
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    3. 1908 — The influence of commerce on civilization
    J. Currie Elles
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    4. 1910 — Banking as a factor in the development of trade and commerce
    J. Russell French
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    5. 1912 — Australian company law, and some sidelights on modern commerce
    Henry Y. Braddon
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    6. 1914 — Problems of transportation, and their relation to Australian trade and commerce
    David J. Gordon
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    7. 1917 — War finance: Loans, paper money and taxation
    Robert F. Irvine
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    8. 1919 — The humanizing of commerce and industry
    Gerald Mussen
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    9. 1921 — Currency and prices in Australia
    Douglas B. Copland
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    10. 1923 — Money, credit and exchange
    J. Russell Butchart
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    11. 1925 — The Guilds
    Henry Y. Braddon
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    12. 1927 — The financial and economic position of Australia
    Stanley M. Bruce
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    13. 1929 — Public finance in relation to commerce
    Richard C. Mills
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    14. 1930 — Current problems in international finance
    Theodore E. G. Gregory
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    15. 1932 — Australia's share in international recovery
    Alfred C. Davidson
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    16. 1934 — Gold standard or goods standard
    Leslie G. Melville
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    17. 1936 — Some economic effects of the Australian tariff
    Lyndhurst F. Giblin
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    18. 1938 — Australian economic progress against a world background
    Colin Clark
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    19. 1940 — Economic coordination
    Roland Wilson
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    20. 1942 — The Australian economy during War
    Robert G. Menzies

    21. 1942 — Problems of a high employment economy
    H. C. Coombs

    22. 1946 — Necessary principles for satisfactory agricultural development in Australia
    S. M. Wadham

    23. 1948 — The importance of the iron and steel industry
    Essington Lewis

    24. 1950 — The economic consequences of scientific research
    John B. Condliffe

    25. 1952 — Australian agricultural policy
    John G. Crawford

    26. 1954 — The economics of Federal-State finance
    Wilfred Prest

  • Chapter details - Volume 2

    Preface
    Kym Anderson
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    The benefactor Joseph Fisher
    F. R. Fisher
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    The lectures
    Kym Anderson
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    The lecturers
    Kym Anderson and Keith Hancock
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    27. 1956 — Japan and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
    James E. Meade
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    28. 1958 — National superannuation: Means test or contributions?
    Richard I. Downing
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    29. 1960 – Mass entertainment: The origins of a modern industry
    Asa Briggs
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    30. 1962 — Industrial research and economic growth in Australia
    Bruce R. Williams
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    31. 1964 — Australian foreign aid policy
    Heinz W. Arndt
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    32. 1967 — Australian tariff policy
    W. Max Corden
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    33. 1969 — Balancing external payments by adjusting domestic income
    E. H. Phelps Brown
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    34. 1971 — Income inflation in Australia
    Ronald F. Henderson
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    35. 1974 — Political economy and the problems of our times: In defence of general economics
    John Vaizey
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    36. 1976 — Comparing the Industries Assistance Commission and Jackson Committee approaches to industrial development
    G. Alf Rattigan
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    37. 1978 — Australian economics, 1967 to 1977
    Fred H. Gruen
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    38. 1981 — Work and welfare in the years ahead
    Robert G. Gregory
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    39. 1985 — Japan faces affluence
    Martin Bronfenbrenner
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    40. 1986 — What do we really know about monetary policy?
    David Laidler
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    41. 1988 — Pacific challenges to the United States
    Paul R. Krugman
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    42. 1993 — How convincing is the evidence linking education and income?
    Orley Ashenfelter
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    43. 1994 — The role of the NAFTA debate in US trade policy
    Anne O. Krueger
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    44. 1995 — Protection and liberalization in Australia and abroad
    W. Max Corden
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    45. 1996 — Population, food and trade
    D. Gale Johnson
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    46. 1997 — Strengthening intellectual property rights in Asia: Implications for Australia
    Keith E. Maskus

    47. 1999 — Human behaviour and the transmission of infectious disease: An economist’s perspective
    Mark Gersovitz

    48. 2001 — Public policy and higher education
    Peter H. Karmel

    49. 2002 — The role of natural resources in economic development
    Edward B. Barbier

    50. 2003 — Globalization
    Mike Moore

    51. 2006 — Paying for the past: Economics, cultural heritage, and public policy
    C. David Throsby

    52. 2008 — Globalization and the Great Divergence in the long run
    Jeffrey G. Williamson

    53. 2009 — Globalization and the environment
    Brian R. Copeland

    54. 2010 — Exploring the mysteries of trends and bubbles
    Peter C. B. Phillips

    55. 2011 — Can Asia grow fast on its own? The economics of the dynamic middle
    Peter A. Petri

    56. 2012 — Multinational corporations and development: Changing perceptions
    Jagdish N. Bhagwati

This two-volume collection brings together the first 56 Joseph Fisher Lectures in economics and commerce, presented at the Adelaide University every other year since 1904. Funds for the Lectures, together with a medal for the top accounting student each year, were kindly provided by a £1,000 endowment to the University by the prominent Adelaide businessman Joseph Fisher in 1903.

The Lectures address a wide range of Australian economic issues, in addition to numerous international economic issues of national significance. They have stood the test of time extremely well, while also providing a reminder of the events and concerns that were prominent at different times during the past 110 years.

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Review

'The lecturers are a most distinguished lot. Prior to 1950, they were businessmen, bankers, and politicians with only the occasional academic economist Robert Irvine, Douglas Copland, Colin Clark, and Theodore Gregory). After 1950, they have been leading academic economists of the day with only occasional non-academics (Alf Rattigan and Mike Moore). The lecturers include two Australian prime ministers (Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies) and one former New Zealand prime minister (Mike Moore), and two Nobel Prize winners (James Meade and Paul Krugman), both of whom were invited to give the lecture before they were awarded the prize. As one would expect from these authors, the lectures are of a very high standard without exception.'

Peter J. Lloyd,ÌýAustralian Economic History ReviewÌý, Vol. 51, No. 3 (November 2011).