Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of lectures in volume 2 (1956-2009)
- Contributors to opening chapters
- The benefactor Joseph Fisher
- The lectures
- The lecturers
- 1 1904 – Commercial education
- 2 1906 – Commercial character
- 3 1908 – The influence of commerce on civilization
- 4 1910 – Banking as a factor in the development of trade and commerce
- 5 1912 – Australian company law, and some sidelights on modern commerce
- 6 1914 – Problems of transportation, and their relation to Australian trade and commerce
- 7 1917 – War finance: Loans, paper money and taxation
- 8 1919 – The humanizing of commerce and industry
- 9 1921 – Currency and prices in Australia
- 10 1923 – Money, credit and exchange
- 11 1925 – The Guilds
- 12 1927 – The financial and economic position of Australia
- 13 1929 – Public finance in relation to commerce
- 14 1930 – Current problems in international finance
- 15 1932 – Australia's share in international recovery
- 16 1934 – Gold standard or goods standard
- 17 1936 – Some economic effects of the Australian tariff
- 18 1938 – Australian economic progress against a world background
- 19 1940 – Economic coordination
- 20 1942 – The Australian economy during War
- 21 1942 – Problems of a high employment economy
- 22 1946 – Necessary principles for satisfactory agricultural development in Australia
- 23 1948 – The importance of the iron and steel industry
- 24 1950 – The economic consequences of scientific research
- 25 1952 – Australian agricultural policy
- 26 1954 – The economics of Federal-State finance
The benefactor Joseph Fisher
Extract from Joseph Fisher – A Pioneer Colonist
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of lectures in volume 2 (1956-2009)
- Contributors to opening chapters
- The benefactor Joseph Fisher
- The lectures
- The lecturers
- 1 1904 – Commercial education
- 2 1906 – Commercial character
- 3 1908 – The influence of commerce on civilization
- 4 1910 – Banking as a factor in the development of trade and commerce
- 5 1912 – Australian company law, and some sidelights on modern commerce
- 6 1914 – Problems of transportation, and their relation to Australian trade and commerce
- 7 1917 – War finance: Loans, paper money and taxation
- 8 1919 – The humanizing of commerce and industry
- 9 1921 – Currency and prices in Australia
- 10 1923 – Money, credit and exchange
- 11 1925 – The Guilds
- 12 1927 – The financial and economic position of Australia
- 13 1929 – Public finance in relation to commerce
- 14 1930 – Current problems in international finance
- 15 1932 – Australia's share in international recovery
- 16 1934 – Gold standard or goods standard
- 17 1936 – Some economic effects of the Australian tariff
- 18 1938 – Australian economic progress against a world background
- 19 1940 – Economic coordination
- 20 1942 – The Australian economy during War
- 21 1942 – Problems of a high employment economy
- 22 1946 – Necessary principles for satisfactory agricultural development in Australia
- 23 1948 – The importance of the iron and steel industry
- 24 1950 – The economic consequences of scientific research
- 25 1952 – Australian agricultural policy
- 26 1954 – The economics of Federal-State finance
Summary
Joseph Fisher was born in Yorkshire on 14 September 1834, to Joshua and Hannah Fisher. Joseph and his parents and sisters sailed for South Australia in the Pestonjee Bomanjee, leaving from London on 11 June and arriving in Glenelg on 12 October 1838, when Joseph was 3 years old.
A family friend, Anthony Forster, probably influenced their decision to choose South Australia. Forster himself travelled to South Australia in early 1841, to take possession for George Fife Angas of the latter's Barossa Estates. This was a fortunate event for Joseph, with whom Forster had a particularly close association both as a friend and mentor consequent upon Joshua's untimely death on 3 September 1841.
Joseph appears to have had the bulk of his schooling at the Oddfellows School and subsequently in Anthony's Forster's old home. He left school at age 12, five years after his father's death, to work in the merchantile business established by Anthony Forster. Two years later Forster took up an offer of a share in the Register and Observer newspapers, and Joseph joined the Register's commercial department. In an interview in 1903 Joseph described his duties as follows:
“I had to assist the bookkeeper, deliver papers, take a turn at the old hand press, occasionally read proofs and also numerous other odd jobs at the office. I frequently remained on duty for 12-14 hours a day and I soon gained a practical knowledge of the work in almost every department of the newspaper office.”
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- Australia's Economy in its International ContextThe Joseph Fisher Lectures, pp. xiii - xxiiPublisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2009