Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of lectures in volume 2 (1956-2009)
- Contributors to opening chapters
- The benefactor Joseph Fisher
- The lectures
- The lecturers
- 1 1904 – Commercial education
- 2 1906 – Commercial character
- 3 1908 – The influence of commerce on civilization
- 4 1910 – Banking as a factor in the development of trade and commerce
- 5 1912 – Australian company law, and some sidelights on modern commerce
- 6 1914 – Problems of transportation, and their relation to Australian trade and commerce
- 7 1917 – War finance: Loans, paper money and taxation
- 8 1919 – The humanizing of commerce and industry
- 9 1921 – Currency and prices in Australia
- 10 1923 – Money, credit and exchange
- 11 1925 – The Guilds
- 12 1927 – The financial and economic position of Australia
- 13 1929 – Public finance in relation to commerce
- 14 1930 – Current problems in international finance
- 15 1932 – Australia's share in international recovery
- 16 1934 – Gold standard or goods standard
- 17 1936 – Some economic effects of the Australian tariff
- 18 1938 – Australian economic progress against a world background
- 19 1940 – Economic coordination
- 20 1942 – The Australian economy during War
- 21 1942 – Problems of a high employment economy
- 22 1946 – Necessary principles for satisfactory agricultural development in Australia
- 23 1948 – The importance of the iron and steel industry
- 24 1950 – The economic consequences of scientific research
- 25 1952 – Australian agricultural policy
- 26 1954 – The economics of Federal-State finance
8 - 1919 – The humanizing of commerce and industry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of lectures in volume 2 (1956-2009)
- Contributors to opening chapters
- The benefactor Joseph Fisher
- The lectures
- The lecturers
- 1 1904 – Commercial education
- 2 1906 – Commercial character
- 3 1908 – The influence of commerce on civilization
- 4 1910 – Banking as a factor in the development of trade and commerce
- 5 1912 – Australian company law, and some sidelights on modern commerce
- 6 1914 – Problems of transportation, and their relation to Australian trade and commerce
- 7 1917 – War finance: Loans, paper money and taxation
- 8 1919 – The humanizing of commerce and industry
- 9 1921 – Currency and prices in Australia
- 10 1923 – Money, credit and exchange
- 11 1925 – The Guilds
- 12 1927 – The financial and economic position of Australia
- 13 1929 – Public finance in relation to commerce
- 14 1930 – Current problems in international finance
- 15 1932 – Australia's share in international recovery
- 16 1934 – Gold standard or goods standard
- 17 1936 – Some economic effects of the Australian tariff
- 18 1938 – Australian economic progress against a world background
- 19 1940 – Economic coordination
- 20 1942 – The Australian economy during War
- 21 1942 – Problems of a high employment economy
- 22 1946 – Necessary principles for satisfactory agricultural development in Australia
- 23 1948 – The importance of the iron and steel industry
- 24 1950 – The economic consequences of scientific research
- 25 1952 – Australian agricultural policy
- 26 1954 – The economics of Federal-State finance
Summary
I would like it to be clearly understood that the views which I express to-night are my personal opinions, and that I do not speak on behalf of any of the companies to which I act as industrial adviser.
Do commerce and industry require humanizing?
Let us make a short examination of existing conditions and practices, to see whether Australia has been proceeding on the best lines. I do not propose to give a historical review of the growth of our present system of trade and commerce, its economic laws, and its industrial conditions. Our concern to-night is with the existing conditions of the lives of our people, not what brought those conditions about. We have gone through the greatest war in history, involving appalling loss of human life and uncountable destruction of the world's possessions. We have emerged victorious, with the cause of civilization saved and the road of progress standing out clearly in front of us. While we are still dazed with the noise and tumult. of Armageddon, our jarred senses and tired nerves have :been shocked horribly by a great outburst of social and political revolution. We have now become indifferent to the fact that almost each day, in some disturbed part of the world, a new social system is created by a band of rebels, who throw down the rulers of the previous day, and are in turn displaced before there is any clear understanding of what they stand for.
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- Australia's Economy in its International ContextThe Joseph Fisher Lectures, pp. 195 - 222Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2009