The War Economy

Abstract

This chapter does not seek to provide a full account of the Australian economy in the Second World War – this has already been written by the Official Historians, the Deputy Director of the Department of War Organisation of Industry (DWOI) and within stand-alone accounts in other histories of the war. What this chapter attempts is more trans-disciplinary: to explain the effects of Australia’s wartime economic changes upon its diplomatic relationships, especially with Britain and America.