Professor Martin Shanahan

Professor School of Commerce

City West Campus (WL3-53)
tel +61 8 830 20745
fax +61 8 830 27001

email Martin.Shanahan@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Professor Martin Shanahan is Professor of Economic and Business History in the School of Business and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Prof Shanahan holds degrees in economics, politics and law and is a specialist in Australian economic and business history. His PhD was awarded the Butlin Prize in economic history in Australia and New Zealand.

Prof Shanahan has written over a hundred peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books and conference papers on historical aspects of wealth and income distribution, business cartels, trade practice law, and water use. He has also published extensively on university-student learning of economics, students’ research conceptions and threshold concepts. He was awarded an... Read more

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Research

Research themes

Scarce resources
Transforming societies

Research focus

Applied Economics
Economics
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Business and Management
Historical Studies

Highlights

Work in progress

Shanahan M and Frost L, (Monash University) "Water and waste: a comparison of Melbourne and Adelaide"

Brunkova, Z and Shanahan M.P. Did democratic institutions help Australia avoid the resource curse? in A. Dugstad, P. Sandvik, E. Storli The regulation of natural resources since 1830, The University of British Columbia Press

Shanahan M. P Australia’s industrial development: The importance of importing capital and ideas Research project with Dominique Barjot (Sorbonne) and Harm Schröter (Bergen)

Fellman S (Gothenburg University) and Shanahan M. P. "Regulating Competition. The influence of lobby groups on national cartel registers"

Completed

'The role of Epistemic Community in... Read more

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2016	Banerjee, R & Shanahan, M 2016, 'The contribution of wheat to Australian agriculture from 1861 to 1939', Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 125-150.
2016	Shanahan, M 2016, 'Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand', in J Baten (ed.), A history of the global economy: 1500 to the present, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 9, pp. 282-309. 19
2015	Shanahan, MP 2015, 'Wealth and welfare', in S Ville & G Withers (eds), The Cambridge economic history of Australia, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 22, pp. 489-510. 3
2013	Loch, A, Wheeler, S, Bjornlund, H, Beecham, S, Edwards, J, Zuo, A & Shanahan, M 2013, The role of water markets in climate change adaptation: Final report prepared for the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, Queensland. Open access

Books

Year	Output
2015	Round, K & Shanahan, M 2015, From protection to competition: the politics of trade practices reform in Australia, Federation Press, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2019	Brunkova, Z & Shanahan, M 2019, 'The Australian gold rushes 1850-1900: elites, mineral ownership and democracy', in ARD Sanders, PT Stadnik & E Storli (eds), The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015, UBC Press, Canada, ch. 1, pp. 23-44.
2018	Shanahan, M 2018, 'Can economics assist the transition to a circular economy?', in R Crocker et al. (eds), Unmaking waste in production and consumption: towards the circular economy, Emerald Publishing, UK, ch. 2, pp. 35-48.
2016	Fellman, S & Shanahan, MP 2016, 'Conclusion', in S Fellman & M Shanahan (eds), Regulating competition: Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world, Routledge, UK, ch. 15, pp. 282-285.
2016	Shanahan, M & Fellman, S 2016, 'Regulating capitalism - the rise and fall of 'cartel registers' in the twentieth-century world', in S Fellman & M Shanahan (eds), Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 20-32.
2016	Shanahan, M 2016, 'Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand', in J Baten (ed.), A history of the global economy: 1500 to the present, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 9, pp. 282-309. 19
2016	Shanahan, M 2016, 'The secret register and its impact in advancing competition in Australia, 1900-2010', in S Fellman & M Shanahan (eds), Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world, Routledge, UK, ch. 9, pp. 166-182. 1
2015	Shanahan, M & Fellman, S 2015, 'Cartel registers around the world', in S Fellman & M Shanahan (eds), Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world, Taylor & Francis, UK, ch. 7, pp. 113-132. 2
2015	Shanahan, MP 2015, 'Wealth and welfare', in S Ville & G Withers (eds), The Cambridge economic history of Australia, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 22, pp. 489-510. 3
2014	Matteo, L, Emery, H & Shanahan, MP 2014, 'Natural resource exports and development in settler economies during the first great globalization era', in D Anastakis & A Smith (eds), Smart globalization: the Canadian business and economic history experience, University of Toronto Press, Canada, ch. 4, pp. 108-132.
2013	Shanahan, M P & Wilson, JK 2013, 'Labor market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913: accounting for the differences in labor hours and occupations', in C Lloyd, J Metzer & R Sutch (eds), Settler economies in world history, 1, Brill, Leiden, ch. 12, pp. 345 - 370.
2013	Shanahan, MP 2013, 'The economics of climate change: the Stern and Garnaut reports and their implications for business', in G Wells, Sustainable business: theory and practice of business under sustainability principles, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 15, pp. 268-280.
2013	Zuo, A, Wheeler, S, Bjornlund, H & Shanahan, M 2013, 'The association between farm management strategies and irrigators' farm profits over time in the Murray-Darling Basin', in H Bjornlund, CA Brebbia & SA Wheeler (eds), Sustainable irrigation and drainage IV: management, technologies and policies, WIT Press, UK, pp. 447-457. Open access 2
2011	Shanahan, MP 2011, 'Colonial sisters and their wealth: the wealth holdings of women in South Australia, 1875-1915', in DR Green, A Owens, J Maltby et al. (eds), Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment, 1850-1930, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom UK, ch. 5, pp. 99-124.
2010	Shanahan, M, Wheeler, S & Bjornlund, H 2010, 'Towards more sustainable irrigation: factors influencing allocation and entitlement process and demand in the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District of Australia', in H Bjornlund (ed.), Incentives and instruments for sustainable irrigation, WIT Press, UK, ch. 7, pp. 91-105.
2010	Shanahan, MP 2010, 'What price water?', in Christopher B Daniels, Adelaide-Water of a City, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 289-291.
2010	Shanahan, MP, Foster, JR & Meyer, E 2010, 'Threshold Concepts and Attrition in First-Year Economics', in J Meyer, R Land and Baillie, Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 207-226.
2010	Shanahan, MP, Jones, D & Hughes, S 2010, 'A history of water in the city', in Christopher B Daniels, Adelaide-Water of a City, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 155-156.
2009	Shanahan, MP 2009, 'Economic policy of the Hawke years', in G Bloustien, A Mackinnon & B Comber (eds), The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia, pp. 167-179.
2009	Shanahan, MP 2009, 'Income and Wealth', in John Spoehr, State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, pp. 114-130.
2008	Shanahan, MP, Foster, JR & Meyer, E 2008, 'Associations among prior acquisition of threshold concepts, learning dimensions and examination performance', in Micheal A. Peters, J. Freeman-Moir, Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 155-173.
2008	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Shanahan, MP & Zuo, A 2008, 'Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area of Australia', in Y. Villacampa Esteve, C.A. Brebbia and D. Prats Rico, Sustainable Irrigation- Management Technologies and Policies II, WIT press, Southampton, UK, pp. 63-72. Open access 2

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Fellman, S & Shanahan, M 2019, 'Sectoral influence on competition legislation: evidence from the Cartel Registers, 1920-2000', Business History Review, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 663-660. Open access 1 1 1
2019	Shanahan, M & Fellman, S 2019, 'Shifts in government business relations: Assessing  change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995', Business History, online, pp. 1-20. Open access
2016	Banerjee, R & Shanahan, M 2016, 'The contribution of wheat to Australian agriculture from 1861 to 1939', Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 125-150.
2016	Shanahan, M & Banerjee, R 2016, 'Aspects of productivity', Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 115-124.
2016	Shanahan, MP 2016, 'Threshold concepts in economics', Education and Training, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 510-520. 3 1
2015	Shanahan, M 2015, 'Discipline identity in economic history: reflecting on an interdisciplinary community', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 181-193. 6
2014	Shanahan, MP & Round, K 2014, 'Creating the 'Secret Register': the background to the register of trade agreements in Australia, 1967-1974', Entreprises et Histoire, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 72-91. 1
2014	Shanahan, MP & Round, K 2014, 'Transforming Australian business attitudes to competition: responses to the Trade Practices Act 1965', Business History, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 434-455.
2013	Shanahan, MP, Round, DK & Round, KA 2013, 'Cartel resilience in Australian markets 1901-1967', Revue Economique, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1011-1042. 1
2012	Round, K & Shanahan, MP 2012, 'From protection to competition : the politics of trade practices reform in Australia and the Trade Practices Act 1965', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 497-511. 4 3
2012	Shanahan, MP, Wilson, JK & Becker, WE 2012, 'Following Zahka : using Nobel Prize winners' speeches and ideas to teach economics', The Journal of Economic Education, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 190-199.
2012	Wilson, JK & Shanahan, MP 2012, 'Did good institutions produce good tariffs? Evidence from tariff protection in colonial Victoria', Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 128-147. 2 1
2010	Morgan, S & Shanahan, MP 2010, 'The Supply of Economic History in Australasia: The Australian Economic History Review at 50', Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 217-239. 9 9 1
2010	Round, DK & Shanahan, MP 2010, 'The Economics Degree in Australia: Down but Not Out?', The Journal of Economic Education, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 425-435. 11 13
2010	Round, KA, Shanahan, MP & Round, DK 2010, 'Anti-Cartel or Anti-Foreign? Australian Attitudes to Anti-Competitive Behaviour before the first World War', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 540-559. 4 6 3
2010	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Zuo, A & Shanahan, M 2010, 'The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district, Australia', Agricultural Water Management, vol. 97, no. 9, pp. 1333-1343. 35 29
2009	Bjornlund, H & Shanahan, MP 2009, 'Comparing Implicit and Explicit Water Prices during the Early Years of Water Trading in Australia', Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 278-302.
2009	Shanahan, MP & Round, DK 2009, 'Serious cartel conduct, criminalisation and evidentiary standards: Lessons from the Coal Vend case of 1911 in Australia', Business History, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 875-906. 10 5
2009	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Shanahan, MP & Zuo, ZA 2009, 'Who trades water allocations? Evidence of the characteristics of early adopters in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district, Australia 1998-1999', Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 631-643. 32 28
2008	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Shanahan, MP & Zuo, ZA 2008, 'Price Elasticity of Water Allocations Demand in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 37-55. Open access 50 46

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	Shanahan, M 2012, 'History, measurement and varieties of capitalism', The XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch University, pp. 1-18.
2010	Wilson, JK & Shanahan, MP 2010, 'The structure of tariff protection in colonial Victoria', in Rick Garside and Edwyna Harris, APEBH 2010, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp. 1-17. Open access
2009	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Shanahan, MP & Zuo, ZA 2009, 'To Trade or Not to Trade: Decisions of irrigators in an early water market in Australia', in J Pincus, 38th Australian Conference of Economists - ACE09, Professional Association Management Services, pp. 1-35.
2008	Bjornlund, H, Wheeler, SA & Shanahan, MP 2008, 'Supply and demand Elasticity of Irrigation water- implications for water markets', in G Newell, 14th Annual Conference of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society, Pacific Rim Real Estate Institute, pp. 1-12.
2008	Wheeler, SA, Bjornlund, H, Shanahan, MP & Zuo, A 2008, 'Modelling the demand for water entitlements in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district of Australia', in Lambert M, Daniell T and Leonard M, Engineers Australia, pp. 170-178.

Reports

Year	Output
2013	Loch, A, Wheeler, S, Bjornlund, H, Beecham, S, Edwards, J, Zuo, A & Shanahan, M 2013, The role of water markets in climate change adaptation: Final report prepared for the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, Queensland. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Visiting Professor Programme - Gothenburg University, Sweden 2019-2021

International Economic History Association - Audit committee member 2016 -

Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand - President - 2011 - 2017

Trondheim - Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), International Advisory Board (2016-

Editor of the Australian Economic History Review 2003-2013

Co-editor - Special Issue Australian Economic History Review, June 2016

with R Banerjee and P. Sharp (University of Southern Denmark)

Current Editorial Board member of

Australian Economic History Review
Business History
International Review of Economic Education

Australian Learning and Teaching Council: Award for Teaching Excellence (with J.H.F. Meyer, P. Kershaw and K. Adams)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation	AUSTRALIA
Lakehead University	CANADA
New South Wales Government	AUSTRALIA
Private Individual	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Calgary	CANADA
University of California, Berkeley	UNITED STATES
University of Gothenburg	SWEDEN
University of Lethbridge	CANADA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Audit Committee Member International Economic History Association	2018
Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2018
Editorial Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2018
Editorial Board Member Business History	2018
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2018
International Advisory Board Member Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology	2018
Audit Committee Member International Economic History Association	2017
Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2017
Editorial Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2017
Editorial Board Member Business History	2017
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2017
International Advisory Board Member Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology	2017
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2017
Audit Committee Member International Economic History Association	2016
Co-Editor, Special Issue June 2016 Australian Economic History Review	2016
Editorial Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2016
Editorial Board Member Business History	2016
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2016
International Advisory Board Member Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology	2016
Member American Economic Association	2016
Member Cliometrics Society	2016
Member Economic History Association	2016
Member Economic History Society	2016
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2016
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2016
Member European Business History Association	2016
Member European Historical Economics Society	2016
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2016
Editorial Board Member Australian Economic History Review	2015
Editorial Board Member Business History	2015
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2015
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2015
Member American Economic Association	2015
Member Cliometrics Society	2015
Member Economic History Association	2015
Member Economic History Society	2015
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2015
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2015
Member European Business History Association	2015
Member European Historical Economics Society	2015
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2015
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2014
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2014
Member American Economic Association	2014
Member Cliometrics Society	2014
Member Economic History Association	2014
Member Economic History Society	2014
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2014
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2014
Member European Business History Association	2014
Member European Historical Economics Society	2014
Mentor International Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen	2014
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2014
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2013
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2013
Member American Economic Association	2013
Member Cliometrics Society	2013
Member Economic History Association	2013
Member Economic History Society	2013
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2013
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2013
Member European Business History Association	2013
Member European Historical Economics Society	2013
Mentor International Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen	2013
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2013
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2012
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2012
Member American Economic Association	2012
Member Cliometrics Society	2012
Member Economic History Association	2012
Member Economic History Society	2012
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2012
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2012
Member European Business History Association	2012
Member European Historical Economics Society	2012
Mentor International Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen	2012
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2012
Editorial Board Member Education, Knowledge and Economy	2011
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2011
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2011
Member American Economic Association	2011
Member Cliometrics Society	2011
Member Economic History Association	2011
Member Economic History Society	2011
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2011
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2011
Member European Business History Association	2011
Member European Historical Economics Society	2011
Mentor International Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen	2011
President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand	2011
Editorial Board Member Education, Knowledge and Economy	2010
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2010
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2010
Member American Economic Association	2010
Member Cliometrics Society	2010
Member Economic History Association	2010
Member Economic History Society	2010
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2010
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2010
Member European Business History Association	2010
Member European Historical Economics Society	2010
Award for Teaching Excellence Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)	2009
Editorial Board Member Education, Knowledge and Economy	2009
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2009
Executive Member International Economic History Association	2009
Member American Economic Association	2009
Member Cliometrics Society	2009
Member Economic History Association	2009
Member Economic History Society	2009
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2009
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2009
Member European Business History Association	2009
Member European Historical Economics Society	2009
Editorial Board Member Education, Knowledge and Economy	2008
Editorial Board Member International Review of Economic Education	2008
Member American Economic Association	2008
Member Cliometrics Society	2008
Member Economic History Society	2008
Member Education Research and Development Society of Australasia	2008
Member European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction	2008
Member European Business History Association	2008
Member European Historical Economics Society	2008

Other

Trondheim - Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), External Phd co-supervisor

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

I currently teach: Macroeconomics to first year students, Economic Principles to masters students and International Trade to masters students. I also supervise a number of PhD students. Together with colleagues I have received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence and a Carrick Award for outstanding contribution to student learning . This was for our work on 'Learning to Learn' in Economics. My former PhD students have gone on to work in universities, in regulation authorities and overseas in the private sector.

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Innovation and craft brewing in Australia: strategies, impacts and opportunities	Current
CEO tone, earnings management, and the moderating effect of CEO power	Completed
Commercialising aviation biofuels: a study of entrepreneurial challenges	Completed
Corporate income tax aggressiveness in China: regulatory environment, ownership impact and market valuation	Completed
Corporate social performance (CSP) and stewardship: assessing takaful fund operators' investment management performance	Completed
Innovation and regulation in high-risk medical device markets	Completed
Keeping up with the capital: how regional Australia has responded to economic and demographic change since the 1990s	Completed
Optimising resource deployment within the firm: overcoming theoretical problems with a practical application	Completed
The association between corporate governance reform, ownership structure and earnings management: empirical evidence from a unique regulatory environment	Completed
The political economy of cross-border merger regulation	Completed
The role of tourism in a post-conflict region: contested representations of key actors	Completed

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