Australian Economic History Review

2012 Sir Timothy Coghlan prize winner
The Editors and Wiley-Blackwell congratulate the winner of the 2012 Coghlan prize for best paper published in AEHR. The winning paper was Consumption of Cotton Cloth in India,1795–1940 by Tirthankar Roy. You can read the article online now.

APEBH 2012 best paper prize
The prize for the best paper given at the 2012 Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference held in Canberra on the 16–18 February was awarded to Ekaterina Sadetskaya (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) for the paper ‘An investigation of aggregate and regional mortality trends in New Zealand, 1858–1940’, co-authored with Les Oxley (University of Canterbury and University of Waikato, New Zealand). The executive committee extends its warmest congratulations to Ekaterina.

The roots of development
The XVIth World Economic History Congress took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 9–13 July 2012. The Australian Economic History Review and The Economic History Review are pleased to present a collection of free articles based on the theme of the Congress – the roots of development.

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

Read the top Australian Economic History Review articles online:

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

Another Spinning Innovation: The Case of the Rattling Spindle, Garabō, in the Development of the Japanese Spinning Industry
Eugene K. Choi

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

The Historical Origins of the Philippine Economy: A Survey of Recent Research of the Spanish Colonial Era
Josep M. Fradera

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.

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