A course of two lectures per week, with tutorial and practice classes throughout the year.
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SYLLABUS .
Statistics as a scientific method of economic study; - methods of collecting statistical data; sampling; survey of Australian official statistics; classification;
graphs; averages and their characteristics; dispersion and skewness; frequency distri- butions; regression and correlation; elementary treatment of probability; significance test for large and small samples; analysis of time series; index numbers; special studies of methods and data exemplified by Australian statistics of national income and prices.
Students are required to prepare class exercises and essays as set by the lecturers.
BOOKS
*Karmel, P. 1.—Applied Statistics for Economists.. ( Pitman. ) Mills, F. C.—Statistical Methods. ( Pitman, 1956. )
Neiswanger, W. A.—Elementary Statistical Methods ' (Revised ed., N.Y., Macmillan. )
Chou,' Y.—Applied Business and Economic Statistics. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston.)
*Downing, R. I. National Income and Social Accounts. (M.U.P. )
*Moser, C. A.—Suroey Methods in Social Investigation. (Heinemann.) Yates, F.-Sampling Methods for Censuses and Surveys. ( Griffin. )
*National Income and Expenditure. } Labour Report. (Latest issue, Govt. Printer, Canberra. ) Other texts and publications as referred to in lectures.
EXAMINATION
Two 3-hour papers. Before admission to the examination candidates must have satisfactorily completed the practical work.
216. `ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY' PART I
This subject must be taken before or at the same time as Economics A.
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A study of resources, production and trade: Economic activity and its relation to natural resources and other physical and climatic conditions; organization of resources for productive purposes and level of economic development; location and organization of industry; transport and communication; population problems; Austra- lian primary and secondary industries; Australian overseas trade; composition of world trade.
BOOKS
( a) Prescribed textbooks:
Alexander, J. W.—Economic Geography. ( Prentice-Hall, 1963. )
*Andrews, J.—Australia's Resources and their Utilization, Parts I and II. (Com- monwealth Office of Education. )
*Wedham and Wood—Land Utilization in Australia, 3rd ed., selected chapters.
(M.U.P. )
*Estall, R. C., and Buchanan, R. 0.—Industrial Activity and Economic Geography.
(Hutchinson U.L., 1961.)
Commonwealth Year Book, selected sections. ( Commonwealth Govt. Printer, Canberra. )
Ginsburg, Norton—Atlas of Economic Development. (U. of Chicago P., 1961.) (b) Recommended for reference:
Zimmermann, E. W.—World Resources and Industries. (Rev. ed., Harper, 1951.) Manners, G.—The Geography of Energy: (Hutchinson U.L., 1964. )
*Oxford Economic Atlas. (O.U.P. ) The Australian Environment. (C.S.I.R.O. ) EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
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228. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY PART II
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A study of economic development in the Pacific area (including India and S.E. Asia). Influence of natural resources, climatic conditions and topography on economic activity; population movements and problems; types of agricultural develop- ment; processes of industrialization; transport; international trade; inter-governmental co-operation in developmental schemes.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed textbooks:
*Ginsburg, N.
(ed.)—The
Pattern of Asia. (Prentice-Hall. )*Economic Survey of Asia and the Far East. (Latest issue, United Nations.) (b) Recommended for reference:
Trewartha, G. T. Japan. (McGraw-Hill.) Spate, O. H. K.-India and Pakistan. (Methuen.)
Ackerman, E. A.—lapan's Natural Resources and their Relation to Japan's Economic Future. (Univ. Chicago P., 1953.)
Hughes, T. J., and Luard, D. E. T.—The Economic Development of Cоттипist China. (O.U.P., 1959.)
Allen, G. C., and Donnithorne, A. G.—Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya. (Allen and Unwin.)
Fisher, С.—South-East Asi&—A Social, Economic and Political Geography.
( Methuen, 1964.)
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.
217. ECONOMIC HISTORY A
A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The course comprises: (1) The Rise of Europe. An outline of the major European economic developments in the period c. 1500-1800; a discussion in some detail of the development of industrial capitalism in Britain to about 1830.
(2) The Expansion of Europe in the World. The impact of European civilization on other countries since 1800. Particular attention will be given to the changing place of Great Britain in the world economy. (3) An outline of the economic history of Australia.
Students are required to prepare exercises and essays as set by tutors and lecturers.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Bindoff, S. T.-Tudor En land. (Pelican, 1950.)
Ashley, M.
—
England in the Seventeenth Century. ( Pelican, 192.)( These are only two of the excellent series of volumes comprising the Pelican History of England. All volumes are useful, and students are strongly advised to buy some or all of them not only for background reading but because they good general treatments of the economic history of the periods with which they deal.)
Ashley, W. J.—Economic Organization of England. ( New ed., Longmans, 1949.) Birnie, A. Economic History of Europe 1760-1930. (Methuen, 1931.)
Crawford, R. M.-Australia. (Hutchinson.)
*Shaw, A. G. L.—The Economic Development of Australia. (Longmans, 1952.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:
*Ashton, T. S.—The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. (H.U.L. )
Ashton, T. S. An Economic History of England: The Eighteenth Century.
(Methuen, 1955,)
Ashton, T.
S. Economic
Fluctuations in England 1700-1800. (O.U.P., 1959.) 54ECONOMICS
Ashworth, W.—A Short History of the International Economy, 1850-1950.
(Longmans, 1952.)
Clapham, J. H.—The Economic Development of France and Germany. (C.U.P.) Clough, S. B.—Economic Development of Western Civilization. (McGraw-Hill,
• 1959.)
Clough, S. B., and Cole, C. W.—Economic History
'of Europe. (3rd ed., Hanap, 1952.)
*Court, W. H. B. A Concise Economic History of Britain from 1750 to Recent
Times. (C.U.P. )
Fitzpatrick, B.—The British Empire in Australia. (
М.ц.Р. )*Heaton, H.—Economic History of Europe. Revised ed. (Harper, 1948.) (c) It may be necessary to add to the above lists books which become available
after these details go to press.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
229. ECONOMIC HISTORY В THE ECONOMIC HISTORY DF AUSTRALIA
A course of two lectures per week with tutorial classes throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The economic history of Australia, 1788 to 1960, with particular attention to new themes.
BOOKS
No books are prescribed but the following are recommended:
Barnard,
A.(ed. )—The Simple Fleece. (
М.ц.Р., 1962.) `Blainey, G. N.—The Rush that Never Ended. (M.U.P., 1963.)
• Butlin, N. G. Investment in Australian Economic Growth, 1861-1900. (C.U.P., 1964.)
Butlin, S. J.—Australia and New Zealand Bank. (Longmans, 1961.) Fitzpatrick, B.—The British Empire in Australia. (M.U.P. )
Greenwood, G. (ed.)—Australia: A Social and Political History. (Angus and Robertson, 1955.)
Kiddie, M. Men of Yesterday. (
М.ц.
Р., 1961.)
Shann, E. O. G. Economic History of Australia. (C.U.P. or Georgian House.) Articles in Historical Studies of Australia and New Zealand, Economic Record,
Business Archives and History.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
230-1. ECONOMIC HISTORY C I THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF
ASIA
A course of one lecture per week with tutorial classes throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The economic history of Asia since 1850 with special reference to Japan, China, India, Indonesia and some other countries of South Eastern Asia. The course is intended to meet the requirements of students who seek an appraisal of Asia's changing position in
theworld economy since 1850.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Allen, G. C.—A Short Economic History of Modern Japan, 1867-1937. (Rev.
ed., Allen & Unwin, 1962.)
Beckmann,
G.C.-The Modernization of China and
Japan.(Harper, 1962.) Anstay, V.—Economic Development of India.
(Longmans, 1952.)
Robequain, C. E.—Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Philippines. (Longmans, 1959.)
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(b) Prescribed textbooks:
Lockwood, W. W.—The Economie Development of Japan: Growth and Structural Change, 1868-1938. (O.U.P., 1955.)
.Allen, G. C., and Donnithorne, A. G.—Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development: China and Japan. (Allen & Unwin, 1954.) Teig Ssu-yü, and Fairbank, J. K.—China's Response to the West. (Harvard U.P.,
1954.)
Hughes, T. J., and Luard, D. E.—.The Economic Development of Communist China, 1949-1960. (O.U.P., 1961.)
Kuznets, S., Moore, W. E., and Spengler, J. J. (eds. )—Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan. (Duke U.Р., 1955.)
Allen, G. C., and Donnithorne, A. G.—Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya. (Allen & Unwin, 1957.)
(c) A detailed list of references will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. One 2-hour paper.
230-2. ECONOMIC HISTORY C 2
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND
THE
SOVIET UNION Acourse of one lecture per week with tutorial classes throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
Economic development of Russia in comparison with western development
sincethe Industrial Revolution. Emancipation of serfs. The Revolutions. Economic development of the Soviet Union and its present economic position.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Holzman, F. D.—Readings on the Soviet
Economy.(Rand McNally and Co., Chicago, 1962. )
Bergson, A.—Soviet Economic Growth. ( Row, Evanston, Ill., 1953.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:
Lyaschenko, P.-History of the National Economy of Russia. (Macmillan, New York, 1949.)
Nove, A.—The Soviet Economy. (Allen and Unwin, 1961.) EXAMINATION. One 2-hour paper.
230-3. ECONOMIC HISTORY C 3 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES