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Development Economics: From Classical To Critical Analysis, Susan N. Engel
Development Economics: From Classical To Critical Analysis, Susan N. Engel
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
When development economics emerged as a sub-discipline of economics in the 1950s its main concern, like that of most economic theory, was (and largely remains) under-standing how the economies of nation-states have grown and expanded. This means it has been concerned with looking at the sources and kinds of economic expansion measured via increases in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the role of different inputs into production (capital, labor, and land), the impact of growth in the various sectors of the economy (agriculture, manufacturing, and service sectors), and, to a lesser extent, the role of the state. These concerns are at …
Histories From The Asylum: 'The Unknown Patient', Jennifer Hawksley
Histories From The Asylum: 'The Unknown Patient', Jennifer Hawksley
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The bodies of over 25,000 of the 60,000 Australians who were killed during the First World War were either unidentified or unidentifiable. The grief of families of the 'missing' was intensified by the lack of certainty regarding their fate. Even into the 1920s, many families clung to the slim hope that perhaps a mistake had been made and their son, brother or husband might still be alive, yet unable to find his way home. The closed psychiatric files of Sydney's Callan Park Mental Hospital have revealed a soldier whose family was informed in 1916 that he was missing, presumed killed, …
Chinese Rice Trade And Shipping From The North Vietnamese Port Of Hai Phong, Julia T. Martinez
Chinese Rice Trade And Shipping From The North Vietnamese Port Of Hai Phong, Julia T. Martinez
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This overview of Chinese trade in northern Vietnam explores the role of the Chinese rice traders there, especially in Hải Phòng, and their connections with Hong Kong and southern China, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows they were never mere colonial middlemen but economic actors with ties to German and English business interests as well as to the French. The article traces what various primary sources can tell us of their community and business history, as well as revealing the intricate business ties of Chinese rice exporters in colonial Hải Phòng with German shipping companies, up until …
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Benjamin Constant was a distinguished liberal thinker whose continuing fame rests on his differentiation between ancient and modern liberty. In making this distinction Constant was attempting to demonstrate that the values which had actuated the ancient Greeks and Romans, and which many of the most extreme players in the French Revolution had attempted to emulate, were no longer relevant in the modern world. For Constant the Revolution had demonstrated that the values of ancient liberty were positively harmful when applied to modern politics. In this Constant was following Montesquieu and his view that 'sweet commerce', as manifested in the regime …