Forming a Colonial Economy

• List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Part I. Forming an Economy: Introduction; Part II. The Colonial Peopling of Australia: 1788–1850: 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: 1788–1850: 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 budgeting: real and subterranean budgets; 10. The conventional legal fisc in NSW: 1822–1950; Part IV. The Colonial Australian Economy 1810–40: A Historical, Statistical and Analytical Account: 11. Summary and questions; 12. Towards a private market economy in Australia 1810–40; 13. Structural adjustment and development 1810–40; 14. Growth performance; 15. Instability with special reference to the Depression of the 1840s and recovery; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

"Published posthumously, this well-written "prequel" is a comprehensive and original discussion of the colonial peopling of Australia from 1788 to the 1850s. ... All libraries interested in environmental history, economic theory, and 19th-century British or Australian development should aquire this book. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice