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Why Australia Prospered : the Shifting Sources of Economic Growth.
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and gr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400845439 1400845432 9781283683562 1283683563 |