Staff:

49/1968

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC HISTORY

ANNUAL REPORT 1967

Professor and Head of the Department:

G. S. L. Tucker, B.Com.(Melb.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)

Reader:

C. Forster, B.Com.(Melb.), Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer:

N. G. Cain, B.Com.(Melb.), Ph.D. (To 14 December)

Lecturer:

S. Glynn, B.Sc.(Econ.)(Lond.), M.Ec.(W.A.) (From 18 May)

Senior Tutor:

S. H. Cornish, B.Ec.(W.A.)

Research Assistant:

Helen M. Bridge, B.A.

The department offers courses dealing chiefly with modern periods of economic development, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century or later and coming forward to the years since the Second World War. Except in the first-year unit, economic history must be studied in association with economics. The main areas at present covered are the U.K., U.S.A., Australia, Japan and U.S.S.R.

The department's research interests lie mainly in Australian economic history, historical demography and the history of English economic thought.

Staff Matters:

Professor Tucker was granted sixteen teaching weeks 1 study leave during second and third terms to undertake research as an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economic History, Research School of Social Sciences. Dr C. Forster was appointed Acting Head of the Department.

Dr N. G. Cain resigned his Senior Lectureship from 14 December to take up an appointment as Fellow in the Department of Economic History, Research School of Social Sciences.

Mr S. Glynn, formerly Senior Tutor in the Department, was appointed Lecturer from 18 May. This post had been vacant for a year, following Dr J. A. Dowie's resignation in May 1966.

Mr S. H. Cornish, formerly Temporary Senior Tutor in the Department, was appointed Senior Tutor from 1 July.

Courses:

Teaching was conducted in four units: Economic History I, II and III and History of Economic Thought. There was no candidate for the fourth honours year (Economic History IV).

One candidate was supervised for the degree of Ph.D. (jointly with Mr D. M. Butt, of the Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific Studies).

Enrolments and Examinations:

Initial Number High Pass Enrol- Examined Dist. Dist. Credit with Pass Fail ment Merit

Economic History I 101 93 4 4 11 41 33

Economic History II 34 32 3 3 1 20

Economic History III 12 9* 3 1 1 4

History of Economic Thought 4 4** 1 1

* In addition, one candidate has been admitted on medical grounds to a deferred examination.

** This number includes two candidates taking the unit as part of Economics IV, whose results in History of Economic Thought are not published separately.

The failure rate in the first-year unit Economic History I was 35 per cent of those sitting the annual examination. Not many

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students withdrew during the year or were excluded from the examination, so that of an original enrolment of 101 recorded on 2 March, 59 per cent completed the unit successfully.

Research:

Members of the department have worked on: Australian trade and balance of payments, 1890-1960 (Cain); the growth of Australian manufacturing industry, 1890-1960 (Forster); Australian urban structure and growth (Glynn); Australian population growth, 1890-1960 (Tucker); trends in American fertility, 1800-1860 (Forster and Tucker). All have participated in research seminars in the Department of Economic History, Research School of Social Sciences.

Publications;

Cain, N. G. 'The Economists and Australia's Historical Balance of Payments Problems.' The Economic Record, 43, 103, September 1967, 452-4.

Glynn, S. 'Government Policy and Agricultural Development: Western Australia, 1900-1930.' Australian Economic History Review, VII, 2, September 1967, 115-41.

Tucker, G. s. L. 'Population in History.' Essays in Bibliography and Criticism, LIII. The Economic History Review, 2nd ser. XX, 1, April 1967, 131-40.

Acknowledgement:

The department wishes to thank the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Professor Sir John Crawford, and Dr Raymond Hutchings, of the Department of Economic History, Research School of Social Sciences, for help very generously given in teaching.

G. S. L. Tucker Professor of Economic History