Australian Economic History Review

Congratulations to the 2011 APEBH best paper prize winners
The Editors and Wiley-Blackwell congratulate the winner of the best paper prize for a paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History (APEBH) conference, held in San Francisco from 18–20 February. The winning paper was "Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914–1918 War in Comparative Perspective", by John Cranfield and Kris Inwood, both based at University of Guelph, Canada.

Congratulations to the 2010 Sir Timothy Coghlan prize winners
The Editors and Wiley-Blackwell congratulate the winner of the 2010 Coghlin prize for best paper published in AEHR in 2010. The winning paper was. The winning paper was Market responses to climate stress: Rice in Java in the 1930s by Dr Pierre van der Eng.

A study of rice markets in Indonesia’s most populous island of Java during the 1930s, Pierre van der Eng expertly combined archival data, econometric testing and historical narrative to show how markets in the past have had an effective role in mitigating the impact of environmental shocks. This is a view that has been largely missing from contemporary debates on the impact of climate change. The AEHR special issue edited by Jean-Pascal Bassino and Pierre sought explicitly to redress this failing. This article is an example of how economic history can contribute to such debates.

The Development of Accounting Regulation, Education, and Literature in Australia, 1788-2005
Garry D. Carnegie

The 200-km City: Brisbane, The Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast
Peter Spearritt

Prospects for 'Closing The Gap' in Socioeconomic Outcomes for Indigenous Australians?
Jon C. Altman, Nicholas Biddle and Boyd H. Hunter

Urban History and the Future of Australian Cities
Lionel Frost and Seamus O'Hanlon

Labour and land in Ghana, 1874–1939: A shifting ratio and an institutional revolution
Gareth Austin

Australian Economic History Review is concerned with the historical treatment of economic, social and business issues, particularly (but not exclusively) relating to Australia, New Zealand and adjoining regions in Asia and the Pacific. Papers examine these issues not only from the perspective of economic history but also from the related disciplines of history, economics, history of economic thought, industrial relations, demography, sociology, politics and business studies.

Australian Economic History Review is rated as an A-class journal in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

Upcoming Conferences
2012 Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference
Theme: Economic Integration: Historical Perspectives from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region
16–18 February 2012
Australian National University
Canberra
Australia

You can read these special issues online now:

A world in search of gold

Responses of Economic Systems to Environmental Change: Past Experiences

The Australian City - New essays in urban history

Factor productivity

Mining history

Economic History of Asia

Recent Australian Institutional Transformation in Long Run Perspective

Australia and New Zealand in a Changing World: Commercial Policies in the 1960s