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Money: Trade, Investment, and Economic Nationalism
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Money: Trade, Investment, and Economic Nationalism

G. Bolton
Australia’s Empire, pp.211-231
Oxford University Press
2010
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Abstract

This chapter examines the nature of investment, trade, and economic nationalism in colonial Australia. It argues that British finance played only a minor role in the first half-century of colonization because during this period Australian colonies remained undercapitalized. However, free trading brought great advantages to Australian exporters to Britain and entrepreneurs benefitted from membership to the Empire by being able to offer loans on the London markets at favourable secured rates.

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