Stadiums and scheduling : Measuring deadweight losses in the Victorian Football League, 1920–70
- Authors: Frost, Lionel , Borrowman, Luc , Halabi, Abdel
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. , no. (2017), p.
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- Description: Over a 50 year period, Australian Rules football's major league, the Victorian Football League, did not always use its largest and best-equipped stadium for regular season games between its most popular teams or schedule those teams to play twice in a regular season. We calculate deadweight losses from the use of capital goods (stadiums) and effects of match scheduling in this professional sports league. Such analysis has not been attempted previously because of the absence of a counterfactual. The welfare losses were significant but not sufficient to threaten the survival of a distance-protected cartel.
John Maynard Keynes and the Keynes of the Commonwealth, Douglas Copland
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 55, no. 1 (2015), p. 1-19
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- Description: When Douglas Copland of the University of Melbourne was about to go abroad in 1933, a leading Australian businessman, Herbert Gepp, hailed him as the 'Keynes of the Commonwealth'. Gepp was referring to Copland's contributions to Australian economic policy, not that of the British Commonwealth, but there were similarities between Copland and John Maynard Keynes. In full flight, Copland impressed his compatriots with his prodigious work ethic, networking skills, persuasive powers with policy-makers, and practice of popularising economics in order to effect stabilisation policy. For a short time, there were two Keynes, one at the centre, the other at the periphery. © 2015 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
Douglas Copland's battle with the younger Brethren of economists
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 53, no. 2 (2013), p. 187-209
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- Description: This article discusses the problematic relationship between Douglas Copland and the new generation of post-war Australian economists. Copland felt that their view of economic policy was contrary to Australia's best interests. The critique and feud was to last right up till Copland's retirement. The article shows how Copland's views differed from those of inside economists and therefore the official policy line. Australian Economic History Review © 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd and the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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Triumphant, troubled, then terminal: an examination of the Cain and Kirner decade 30 years on
- Authors: Harkness, Alistair
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History (Australia) Vol. 105, no. (2013), p. 27-46
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- Description: More than 30 years have elapsed since the election of the Cain Labor government in Victoria in April 1982 and, given that only limited academic literature exists on this period of governance in Australia's second most populous state, it is worth examining in detail the Cain and Kirner Labor governments. This article sets this period in the context of the longer political history of Victoria, provides analysis of Labor's rise from electoral inconsequence to government, and charts the course of Labor's decade in office until it ended unceremoniously in October 1992. The article argues that, in contrast to the Hawke and Keating federal governments, Labor in Victoria largely eschewed neoliberalism and pursued a more traditional social democratic agenda. This program proved fruitful until "the recession we had to have" severely impacted on the local economy in 1990-91 and led to the landslide defeat of 1992.
Representing militancy: photographs of the Broken Hill industrial disputes, 1908-20
- Authors: Adams, Paul , Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History Vol. 101, no. (2011), p. 1-34
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- Description: The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill’s greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier mines is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes – their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards – an area which has secured far less attention from Australian labour historians. Our concern is not only to read this visual material as evidence of industrial disputes but also to consider how the widespread circulation of such images affected contemporary perceptions of The Hill. We argue that images of a militant locality with a determined labour movement, popular after the 1909 dispute, may well have attracted militant organisers to the town who were important players in the major 1919-20 Big Strike. These images have dominated perceptions of Broken Hill as a bastion of unionism ever since
Integrating the historiography of the nineteenth-century gold rushes
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , Frost, Lionel , Fahey, Charles
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 111-128
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- Description: In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation, and environmental history to identify endogenous factors that increased the world's gold supply and generated sustained economic growth in the regions that were affected by gold rushes.
Sojourners or a new diaspora? Economic implications of the movement of Chinese miners to the south-west Pacific goldfields
- Authors: Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 178-192
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- Description: Chinese gold seekers were the largest non-British group on the goldfields of Australasia and constituted the largest nationality on some diggings. In considering the movement of Chinese miners to and throughout the goldfields colonies of the southwest Pacific, this articles argues there existed a more complex pattern of migration than that suggested by the sojourner model of arrival, brief stay and departure. It examines the links between migration patterns and economic activity, and argues that economic history perspectives complement the insights offered by recent social and cultural history in the field.
A tale of two towns: industrial pickets, police practices and judicial review
- Authors: Baker, David
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Labour History (Australia) Vol. 95, no. (2008), p. 151-167
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- Description: Both the 1992 APPM Burnie dispute and the late December 1999 Lyttelton industrial dispute involved small bands of local police adopting peace-keeping and non-interventionist control of picket-lines. Considerable criticism from management, and subsequently the judiciary, was directed against the non-confrontational police response. Judicial criticisms of police handling of both disputes failed to consider the adverse consequences of a return to a traditionally aggressive policing approach. This article argues that the local relationship between union officials and local police was a significant factor in limiting violence and that a resort to belligerent policing of picketing should be resisted. The similarities of police and union approaches in both cases were stark, as were the criticisms of alleged police inactivity