Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia

Charles Harper (1842-1912) has been rightly identified as the founder of agricultural cooperation in Western Australia. While it was his son (Charles Walter, 1880-1956) who established the principal cooperative organisations in Western Australia, Charles senior prepared the ground for the developmen...

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Main Author: Gilchrist, David
Format: Journal Article
Published: History of Economic Thought Society of Australia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21343
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description Charles Harper (1842-1912) has been rightly identified as the founder of agricultural cooperation in Western Australia. While it was his son (Charles Walter, 1880-1956) who established the principal cooperative organisations in Western Australia, Charles senior prepared the ground for the development of agricultural cooperation via his work in popularising the concept, implementing experiments in cooperative activities and influencing the development of government infrastructure and policy aimed at encouraging what J.K. Galbraith would later call the development of countervailing power. Harper was disinclined to express his economic thought directly and so, in this paper, Charles Harper's economic thought is demonstrated within a framework of countervailing power.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-213432017-03-08T13:10:46Z Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia Gilchrist, David Charles Harper (1842-1912) has been rightly identified as the founder of agricultural cooperation in Western Australia. While it was his son (Charles Walter, 1880-1956) who established the principal cooperative organisations in Western Australia, Charles senior prepared the ground for the development of agricultural cooperation via his work in popularising the concept, implementing experiments in cooperative activities and influencing the development of government infrastructure and policy aimed at encouraging what J.K. Galbraith would later call the development of countervailing power. Harper was disinclined to express his economic thought directly and so, in this paper, Charles Harper's economic thought is demonstrated within a framework of countervailing power. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21343 History of Economic Thought Society of Australia restricted
spellingShingle Gilchrist, David
Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title_full Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title_fullStr Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title_full_unstemmed Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title_short Charles Harper through a Galbrathian lens: Agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial Western Australia
title_sort charles harper through a galbrathian lens: agricultural co-operation and countervailing power in colonial western australia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21343