Of interest to historians of economic thought, British Imperial history, Australian economic and political history, and comparative economic and agricultural history
Highlights Harper's significance in Western Australian parliamentary development, commerce, agriculture and journalism
Reviews the transplantation of co-operative ideals to a distant shore through the agency of a conservative 'capitalist'

Autorentext
David Gilchrist is Professor at the UWA Business School, University of Western Australia, Australia. He researches in the areas of economic history, public policy and financial reporting, including in relation to public sector and Nonprofit sector reform. Gilchrist has held a number of senior roles in the not-for-profit, commercial and public sectors. He has taught accounting and finance at the London School of Economics and Portsmouth University in the UK, as well as at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University in Australia. He was Associate Dean of the School of Business, University of Notre Dame Australia and Adjunct Professor of Non-profit Leadership at that institution.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: The Long Stagnation.- Chapter 2: Visions of English Co-operation in the Victorian Age: Western Australia's Intellectual Inheritance.- Chapter 3: Imperial Demands, Local Imperatives.- Chapter 4: Charles Harper: A Life.- Chapter 5: Bending Co-operation to the Western Australian Economic Problem.- Chapter 6: Australian Colonial Socialism in Word and Deed: The Socialisation of Economic Problems in Colonial Australia.- Chapter 7: A Step Too Far: Western Australian State Socialism (19181939).