Originally published April 2001 by the Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide, and re-published by the University of Adelaide Press in 2009 with 5 additional lectures. This revised edition includes a further 3 new lectures. Rev. ed.This two-volume collection brings together the first 56 Joseph Fisher Lectures in economics and commerce, presented at the Adelaide University every other year since 1904. Funds for the Lectures, together with a medal for the top accounting student each year, were kindly provided by a £1,000 endowment to the University by the prominent Adelaide businessman Joseph Fisher in 1903. The Lectures address a wide range of Australian economic issues, in addition to numerous international econom...