ABSTRACT
Australia has produced a disproportionately high number of internationally renowned tennis players, opera singers, and historians of economics. Climate might explain the first phenomenon, the large ltalian immigrant population the second, but the third is somewhat more mysterious. One possible explanation is that Australian schoolchildren study British history and geography. This gives rhem (and Canadians) a comparative advantage over Americans, who are less likely to know the difference between a Whig and a Tory, or whether Liverpool or Leieester is by the sea.
