Stock and station agents have been a key driving force behind rural-led economic development in Australia and New Zealand. By providing remote and inexperienced farmers with vital finance, marketing, and technical services and advice through expansion and crisis, they have filled an entrepreneurial gap. In the twentieth century, the leading agents expanded their range of activities and became some of Australasia's earliest nationwide firms and biggest businesses. The Rural Entrepreneurs provides new insights in understanding Australasia's rural history and economic development.
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"...Rural Entrepreneurs offers many important new insights into the internal workings of a prime sector of the economy and, in good style, raises a few more questions requiring further investigation. The book is thoroughly researched, detailed, and well written. It is attractively produced and its arguments are usefully supported by clear charts, diagrams, and illustrations. Rural Entrepreneurs should be of interest to both business and economic historians concerned with the nuts and bolts of microeconomic behavior and the development of service industries." Business History Review
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Stock and station agents have been a key driving force behind rural-led economic development in Australia and New Zealand. By providing remote and inexperienced farmers with vital finance, marketing, and technical services and advice through expansion and crisis, they have filled an entrepreneurial gap. In the twentieth century, the leading agents expanded their range of activities and became some of Australasia's earliest nationwide firms and biggest businesses.The Rural Entrepreneurs provides new insights in understanding Australasia's rural history and economic development.
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Australasia was one of the most rapidly developing regions of the world economy in the nineteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
station agent industry, leading agent firms, jubilee souvenir booklet, wool consignment, wool auctions, wool commissions, selling centres, wool selling, pastoral sector, wool sales, pastoral networks, agent lending, local selling, wool marketing, pastoral expansion, rural lending, pastoral companies, farmer clients, social integrative, freezing works, larger agents, wool stores, service diversification, smaller agents, wool clips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Goldsbrough Mort, Wright Stephenson, World War Two, New South Wales, Australian Estates, Western Australia, World War One, Murray Roberts, Winchcombe Carson, Goldshrough Mort, South Australia, United States, Dennys Lascelles, Hawke's Bay, London Board, Dennvs Lascelles, Year Dalgety, Managing Director, National Library of Australia, Donald Reid, Pastoral Age, Pyne Gould Guinness, Stronach Morris, Thomas Mort New!
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Australasia was one of the most rapidly developing regions of the world economy in the nineteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
station agent industry, leading agent firms, jubilee souvenir booklet, wool consignment, wool auctions, wool commissions, selling centres, wool selling, pastoral sector, wool sales, pastoral networks, agent lending, local selling, wool marketing, pastoral expansion, rural lending, pastoral companies, farmer clients, social integrative, freezing works, larger agents, wool stores, service diversification, smaller agents, wool clips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Goldsbrough Mort, Wright Stephenson, World War Two, New South Wales, Australian Estates, Western Australia, World War One, Murray Roberts, Winchcombe Carson, Goldshrough Mort, South Australia, United States, Dennys Lascelles, Hawke's Bay, London Board, Dennvs Lascelles, Year Dalgety, Managing Director, National Library of Australia, Donald Reid, Pastoral Age, Pyne Gould Guinness, Stronach Morris, Thomas Mort New!
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- Makers of Fortune: A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall by Russell Cyril James Stone in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Theory of the Firm (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics) by Mark Casson in Back Matter
- The Rise of the Corporate Economy by Leslie Hannah in Back Matter
- Australia and the Great Depression by C.B. Schedvin in Back Matter
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- A Concise History of New Zealand (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Philippa Mein Smith in Back Matter
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