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Gordon Boyce


Gordon Boyce is Professor in Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW. He is author of Information Mediation and Institutional Development, Co-operative Structures in Global Business, The Development of Modern Business (with Simon Ville) and Over Half a Million Careful Owners. Stuart Macintyre was Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His previous works include A Proletarian Science, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History, Volume 4 of the Oxford History of Australia and A Colonial Liberalism. Simon Ville is Professor in the School of Economics, University of Wollongong, specialising in the economic and business history of Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand and The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia (with G. Fleming and D. Merrett).

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