266
loans on, 244; seasonal changes,
119; quotations of Aus. stocks, 108.
Exports, after 1880, 79ff.; price
levels, 97; and loans, 129, 134, 187,
196; and production, 196. See
Trade.
IND
Factors, of production and loans, 178.
Federation, effects of, 104 ff.
Finance, Anglo-Australian, 47; after
1860, 40; F. Dillon Bell on, 48;
early troubles, 9; Melbourne domi-
nance after 1860, 40 (see Bank);
Imperial, 155. See Contents.
Freight, charges, 146, 203 ff.; index
of, 149, 204; Viner on, 146 ff.
Glasgow, City of, bank failure, 47.
Gold, discoveries, 22 ff.; embargo on
export, 216; Hawtrey on, 117 ff.;
movements, 95, 125 (see Contents);
after 1901, 132; after 1914, 185 ff.;
return to, 214, 219 ff.; Mount
Morgan, 44, 59; production, 34 fi.
Gregory, T. E., on Bank of England,
14; on discount rate, 223; on
return to gold, 216. See Foreword.
Hawtrey, on causes of capital move-
ments, 116 ff. ; international credit,
118 ft. ; exchange, 116 fi.
[mmigration, 81, 210.
Imports, and loans, 128 ff., 187, 195;
capital goods after 1850, 32; after
1900, 198 ff.; excess of, 17, 118;
price levels, 97. See Trade.
(mperial finance, 1565.
[ncome, ‘disposable’, 237.
Indebtedness, balance of, 6, 141 ff.,
160 ff., 193 ff., 211 ff. ; estimates of
public, 169 ff., 193 ff,, 211 ff.; and
wealth, 235 ff.
index, of prices, see Prices, Contents;
of wages, 99, 137; of freight, 149,
204; of productivity, 238.
Industry and capital, 244.
Inflation, after 1850, 27; war-time,
164, 188; Copland on, 188.
Insurance, on imports, 150, 205;
investments abroad by Aus. com-
panies, 158, 211.
[nterest on public debt, 150, 205 {i.,
251. See Indebtedness.
[nternational Trade, see Trade.
Investments (see Capital), Australian,
abroad, 158, 211; and tariff, 155.
Johnston, R. M., on borrowing, 226.
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1862, 42.
BX
Keynes, J. M., on credit, 201 ; imports
and loans, 199 ff.; return to gold,
214 ff.
Knibbs, on price indexes, 98, 135.
Land, bank policy and the, 13 ff.;
booms, 7, 11 ff., 55 ff., 59; banks in
1890, 52, 63 ff.; rewards to, rent,
179; sales 1830-40, 11; after 1850,
27, 46.
Lehfeldt, on return to capital, 153.
Loans, argument for, 226; Aus. and
U.S.A. cfd, 126; and imports,
128, 198; and govt. revenue, 234;
and capital goods, 200; and stan-
dards of living, 231; and tariff policy,
249 ; ‘business’, 1564, 225; classified,
1901, 155; diminishing returns
from, 235 ; expenditure, 240 ; muni-
cipal, 208; regulation, xiii, 123;
statistics, 47, 52, 93, 108 fi., 122,
153, 178; stoppage of, effects, 47,
52, 108, 111 fi., 174 ff., 243 ff. See
Contents.
Marshall, Alfred;-on imports, 141;
capital export, 163; statistics, 172.
Melbourne, dominance in finance
after 1860, 40, 46.
Migration, assisted, 209.
Mining after 1860, 40 ff.
Monopoly, organization towards, 3 ff.
Mount Morgan, 59.
Municipal loans, 155, 208.
New Zealand, after 1872, 74.
Overend Gurney crisis, 43.
Overseas trade, see Trade.
Pastoral industry, 45, 54, 57, 64;
and banks, 58 n. -
Phillips and Wood, Peopling of Austra-
lia, 228.
Population and borrowing, 80, 247.
Port charges, 148.
Price, A. G., on 1840 in 8. Aus., 19.
Prices, Copland on, 164 ff. ; after 1830,
14 ; after 1870, 45; after 1880, 96 ff. ;
after 1900, 133 ff., 167, 189;
changes in group (sectional), 31,
136, 232; metals, 106, 114. See
Contents.
Private capital, 168. See Capital.
Productivity, fluctuations, 6 ff., index
of, 238; and debt, 1890, 84; and
exports, 196; after 1900, 238.
Prosperity (see Booms), after 1872,
46; after 1880, 50; after 1906, 154.
Public, debt, in 1870, 45 ff.; in 1887,
78 ff.; after 1900, 153 ff.; after