The hot new web site for the Economic History Society of Australia & NZ includes details of the next Australia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, at Monash University Feb 6-7 2025. Professor Tim Hatton will give the Noel Butlin lecture! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history#AcademicSky#demography#polisky

Our research suggests that England, Scotland, and Wales experienced an economic cost due to Brexit. But there is one place that is so far unaffected by Brexit: Northern Ireland. Why? Well, effectively because it continued from membership in the Customs Union with the European Union and Great

New in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev! Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni using staff personnel files & confidential assessments of candidates 📉📈🗃📗📜 #history#AcademicSky#policy#edusky#Australia#politics

A portent of academic upheaval: The story of John McCarty, W. A. ‘Gus’ Sinclair and the Chair of Economic History at Monash University, 1967–1993

This article examines the rise and fall of the department of economic history at Monash University, between 1967 and 1993, through the prism of the careers of academics John McCarty and Angus Sinclai....

“Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe”, Don Ransom’s award-winning thesis, reconstructs the lives of Bruny Islanders as they struggled against the overwhelming force of the British Empire. OA summary in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history#AcademicSky#Indigisky

Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe

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Shota Moriwaki in the Asia-Pacific EcHR uses rich micro data to argue metal & machinery manufacture expanded quickly in 1930s Osaka w/o mass production by subcontracting & outsourcing to small plants, using K efficiently & paying subsistence wages. OA! 📉📈🗃📜🏛️ 🍎📗 #history#AcademicSky#Japan#histsci

Division of labour in the production structure and mass production in pre‐war Japan: Lessons from the metal and machinery sectors in Osaka City

Using 1930s panel data from Osaka City, we estimate the production function in the metal and machinery sectors in Japan to identify the factors that influence the establishment of mass-production met....

Drought, famine & Japanese occupation killed 1.8 million in Java 1944-45 & reduced births by 1.5M. Population declined 4%, according to a new OA paper by Pierre van der Eng in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. Further Losses 1946-49 were comparable! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 😷 🛟 #history#AcademicSky#demography#Java#edusky

Mortality from the 1944–1945 famine in Java, Indonesia

This article examines the human toll of the 1944–1945 famine in Java, Indonesia's main island. It estimates birth and death rates for the Indonesian population in Java during 1941–1951. Using the net....

Property rights matter! In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. OA 📉📈🗃🏺📗 #history#AcademicSky#policy

Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan (1683–1895)

Land pawning is considered inefficient because it causes property rights to be unclearly delineated. Despite this, it once prevailed worldwide. We propose that this system flourished when state capac....

“Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe”, Don Ransom’s award-winning thesis, reconstructs the lives of Bruny Islanders as they struggled against the overwhelming force of the British Empire. OA summary in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history#AcademicSky#Indigisky

Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe

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Staff personnel files & the confidential assessment of candidates inform Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni New in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev! 📉📈🗃📗📜 #history#AcademicSky#poliskydoi.org/10.1111/aehr...

Property rights matter! In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 #history#AcademicSky#polisky

Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan (1683–1895)

Land pawning is considered inefficient because it causes property rights to be unclearly delineated. Despite this, it once prevailed worldwide. We propose that this system flourished when state capac....