« Contemporary privatisation is dispossession: Rebecca Jane Hall, ‘Divide and Conquer: Privatizing Indigenous Land Ownership as Capital Accumulation’, Studies in Political Economy, 96, 2015
On Sinophone settlers: Brian Bernards, Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature, University of Washington Press, 2015 »

On the comparative economics of settler societies: Reto Bertoni, Henry Willebald, ‘Do Natural Energy Endowments Matter? New Zealand and Uruguay in a Comparative Perspective, 1870–1940’, Australian Economic History Review, 2015

25Nov15

Abstract: Settler economies are characterised by abundant natural resources, but these are not homogeneous between countries. There is very little literature about the economic development of settler economies that identifies differences within the club in terms of natural resources. We look for differences in energy endowments in New Zealand and Uruguay considering coal and suitable conditions for hydroelectric generation. New Zealand and Uruguay were similar in many ways but there were huge differences in income per capita levels. A ‘modern’ production structure requires sufficient energy supply at competitive costs and New Zealand’s better energy conditions explain that difference.


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