Forming a Colonial Economy Australia 18101850 [Paperback]

This 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes.This 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australia the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book marks the culmination of a life's work.This 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australia the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book marks the culmination of a life's work.This book is a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy provides background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic and military history, and detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over sixty years. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the economy was independent or externally driven. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australian history from 1810 to 1850 what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s.List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Part I. Forming an Economy: Introduction; Part II. The Colonial Peopling of Australia: 17881850: 1. Introduction; 2. Gross additions to the Australian population; 3. The colonial population stock; 4. Human capital in convicts; Part III. Public Funding of Colonial Development: 17881850: 5. Introduction; 6. British fiscal characteristics; 7. The imperial fisc in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land; 8. Broad relations between British and Australian fiscs to 1821; 9. The beginning of local budgetingl£Œ