Imperial Designs: Remaking the Institutions of Global Communications

关于市场、等级制度和网络作为组织经济活动的方式的新观点，将来自于更好地理解世纪后半叶澳大利亚海外通信的治理和绩效。在互联网时代，当如此多的在线活动涉及海外访问时，全球联系对于通过改善宽带基础设施寻求的文化和经济创新来说更加重要。最近有人呼吁“在广泛的战线上对澳大利亚的帝国经验进行广泛的重新评估”，随着全球金融危机对似乎持久的全球化形式的考验，对战后英联邦电信计划的研究将特别有价值。

Fresh perspectives about markets, hierarchies and networks as ways of organising economic activity will come from better understanding the governance and performance of Australia's overseas communications in the second half of the 20th century. In the internet era, when so much online activity involves overseas access, global links are even more important to the cultural and economic innovation sought through improved broadband infrastructure. Answering the recent call for 'a wide-ranging reassessment of Australia's imperial experience across a broad front', research about the post-war Commonwealth telecommunications scheme will be particularly valuable as the global financial crisis tests forms of globalization that seemed durable.