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A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists
This book documents the history of economic discourse in Australia and New Zealand from the early days of European settlement. Many of the early economists were immigrants (William Hearn, Charles Pearson, Catherine Spence, David Syme).
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This book documents the history of economic discourse in Australia and New Zealand from the early days of European settlement. Many of the early economists were immigrants (William Hearn, Charles Pearson, Catherine Spence, David Syme). A few (such as W.C. Wentworth, born on the First Fleet) were proud natives, self-taught but confident and assertive in their use of economic arguments. The 20th century brought European refugees (Heinz Arndt, Harro Bernardelli, Fred Gruen, Kurt Singer) and a healthy crop of locally-born public servant-economists (Bernard Ashwin, John Crawford, ‘Nugget’ Coombs, Leslie Melville, Roland Wilson). There were theorists of international renown (Richard Manning, Wilfred Salter, Trevor Swan), some who made important contributions to public policy debates (Ronald Henderson, Eric Russell) or distinguished themselves in econometrics (Rex Bergstrom, Bill Phillips). The 130 entries in this volume have been written by more than 50 international authorities, revealing the depth and diversity of economics in Australia and New Zealand over almost two centuries.
This biographical dictionary is a rich and comprehensive original reference work that will appeal to many economists and researchers of history and public policy in addition to those involved in the history of economic thought.
This biographical dictionary is a rich and comprehensive original reference work that will appeal to many economists and researchers of history and public policy in addition to those involved in the history of economic thought.
Critical Acclaim
‘The editorial achievement in this volume is impressive. Not only has the canvas of potential entries been remarkably thorough, but also the space allotted to each seems nicely in accord with their importance.’
– Craufurd Goodwin, History of Economics Review
‘Academics, graduate students, journalists, and researchers and historians who work within government and non-governmental organisations and the private sector will find this book a valuable resource and an enjoyable read.’
– Susan K. Schroeder, Australian Economic History Review
‘. . . this is not just a reference book, wonderful though it is as a reference book, but a book to be read through from cover to cover with immense pleasure and much profit.’
– Steven Kates, EH.Net
‘This is a delightful volume: a valuable reference book and at the same time an account of economics in Australia that can be read right through as history. This is the way the history of science should be presented, as an account not only of the giants of the field, but of the pygmies as well. Happily this is not an exercise in hagiography. John King has arranged for admirable balance in this collection between entries on such major figures as Colin Clark, Timothy Coghlan, and Douglas Copland, while not forgetting more colorful others such as one who is described as “a club-footed drunk and recidivist bankrupt who occasionally assaulted his colleagues”.’
– Craufurd Goodwin, Duke University, US
‘Despite globalization, economic ideas in the Antipodes have always been distinctively different from the rest of the world. This book tracks the careers of 130 eminent but deceased Australian and New Zealand economists, largely told by their colleagues and friends. This caps earlier studies of Antipodean economics by Craufurd Goodwin, Peter Groenewegen and Bruce McFarlane. We only have to mention names like Arthur Smithies, Heinz Arndt, Colin Clark, Graham Salter, Stanley Jevons, Trevor Swan, Bill Phillips, Frederic Benham and Robert Torrens to remind us of how much we have all learned from Antipodean economists. This book is a perfect read on that long plane journey to Australia or New Zealand.’
– The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK
– Craufurd Goodwin, History of Economics Review
‘Academics, graduate students, journalists, and researchers and historians who work within government and non-governmental organisations and the private sector will find this book a valuable resource and an enjoyable read.’
– Susan K. Schroeder, Australian Economic History Review
‘. . . this is not just a reference book, wonderful though it is as a reference book, but a book to be read through from cover to cover with immense pleasure and much profit.’
– Steven Kates, EH.Net
‘This is a delightful volume: a valuable reference book and at the same time an account of economics in Australia that can be read right through as history. This is the way the history of science should be presented, as an account not only of the giants of the field, but of the pygmies as well. Happily this is not an exercise in hagiography. John King has arranged for admirable balance in this collection between entries on such major figures as Colin Clark, Timothy Coghlan, and Douglas Copland, while not forgetting more colorful others such as one who is described as “a club-footed drunk and recidivist bankrupt who occasionally assaulted his colleagues”.’
– Craufurd Goodwin, Duke University, US
‘Despite globalization, economic ideas in the Antipodes have always been distinctively different from the rest of the world. This book tracks the careers of 130 eminent but deceased Australian and New Zealand economists, largely told by their colleagues and friends. This caps earlier studies of Antipodean economics by Craufurd Goodwin, Peter Groenewegen and Bruce McFarlane. We only have to mention names like Arthur Smithies, Heinz Arndt, Colin Clark, Graham Salter, Stanley Jevons, Trevor Swan, Bill Phillips, Frederic Benham and Robert Torrens to remind us of how much we have all learned from Antipodean economists. This book is a perfect read on that long plane journey to Australia or New Zealand.’
– The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK
Contributors
Contributors: J.R. Anderson, F. Argy, S. Bambrick, G. Banks, G. Bertram, C. Blyth, N. Brown, J. Butlin, W. Coleman, M. Corden, S. Cornish, J. Courvisanos,
R. Dixon, M. Donoghue, B. Easton, A. Endres, L.T. Evans, B. Fisher, R. Garnaut, M. Gordon, P. Groenewegen, L. Haddad, A. Hall, V.B. Hall, G.C. Harcourt, G. Hawke, J. Hawkins, W. Hogan, G. Hogbin, F. Holmes, T. Hunter, J. Isaac, J.B. King, J.E. King, M. Lake, R. Lattimore, R. Leeson, D. Leonard, P. Lloyd, J. Lodewijks, S. Magarey, M. McLure, J. McMillan, A. Millmow, G. Moore, P. Moore, G. Patmore, R. Petridis, P.C.B. Phillips, P. Saunders, M. Schneider, J. Singleton, B. Smith, G.D. Snooks, S. Turnell, A. Watson, K. Weststrate, L. Williams, R. Williams, R. Wilson
R. Dixon, M. Donoghue, B. Easton, A. Endres, L.T. Evans, B. Fisher, R. Garnaut, M. Gordon, P. Groenewegen, L. Haddad, A. Hall, V.B. Hall, G.C. Harcourt, G. Hawke, J. Hawkins, W. Hogan, G. Hogbin, F. Holmes, T. Hunter, J. Isaac, J.B. King, J.E. King, M. Lake, R. Lattimore, R. Leeson, D. Leonard, P. Lloyd, J. Lodewijks, S. Magarey, M. McLure, J. McMillan, A. Millmow, G. Moore, P. Moore, G. Patmore, R. Petridis, P.C.B. Phillips, P. Saunders, M. Schneider, J. Singleton, B. Smith, G.D. Snooks, S. Turnell, A. Watson, K. Weststrate, L. Williams, R. Williams, R. Wilson
Contents
Contents:
1. John Louis Dillon
Jock R. Anderson
2. Victor Elie Argy
Fred Argy
3. Horace Plessay Brown
Susan Bambrick
4. Richard Hal Snape
Gary Banks
5. Bernard Edward Murphy
Geoff Bertram
6. Horace Belshaw; Malcolm Robertson Fisher
Conrad Blyth
7. Richard Ivan Downing
Nicholas Brown
8. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin
Judith Butlin
9. James Bristock Brigden; Alfred De Lissa; Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin; Keith Sydney Isles; Arthur James Ogilvy; Arthur Smithies
William Coleman
10. Fred Henry George Gruen
Max Corden
11. Heinz Wolfgang Arndt; Herbert Burton; Herbert Cole Coombs; Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville; Sir Richard John Randall; Sir Edward Ronald Walker; Sir Roland Wilson
Selwyn Cornish
12. Thomas Michael Fitzgerald
Jerry Courvisanos
13. Raymond John Albert Harper
Robert Dixon
14. Harro Bernardelli; Ralph William Souter
Mark Donoghue
15. Sir Bernard Carl Ashwin; William Ball Sutch
Brian Easton
16. Colin Grant Clark
Anthony Endres
17. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell
Lewis T. Evans
18. Keith Oliver Campbell
Brian Fisher
19. Sir John Grenfell Crawford
Ross Garnaut
20. Barry Lewis John Gordon
Moira Gordon
21. Sir Hermann David Black; Arthur Duckworth; Russell Lloyd Mathews; Richard Charles Mills; Morris Birkbeck Pell; Garnet Vere Portus; Graham Shardalow Lee Tucker; William Charles Wentworth; Sidney Herbert Wostenholme
Peter Groenewegen
22. David Miles Bensusan-Butt
Louis Haddad
23. Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan
Alan Hall
24. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell
Viv B. Hall
25. Keith Septimus Frearson; Eric Alfred Russell; Wilfred Edward Graham Salter
G.C. Harcourt
26. William Pember Reeves
Gary Hawke
27. James Ford Cairns; Sir Stanley Roy Carver; Edward Pulsford; Sir Frederick Henry Wheeler
John Hawkins
28. Allan George Barnard Fisher; Colin George Frederick Simkin
Warren Hogan
29. Ross McDonald Parish
Geoff Hogbin
30. Henry George Lang; Sir Alan Roberts Low
Frank Holmes
31. Alexander Hunter
Thelma Hunter
32. Henry Bournes Higgins; Kingsley Middleton Laffer; Wilfred Prest
Joe Isaac
33. Herbert Heaton
Jack B. King
34. Sir Francis Anderson; William Henry Archer; Meredith Atkinson; Henry Heylyn Hayter; Christopher Ian Higgins; Maximilian Hirsch; William Stanley Jevons; Robert Mackenzie Johnston; Sir George Handley Knibbs; John Andrew La Nauze; Sir Anthony Musgrave; Godfrey Alfred Rattigan; Walter Scott; Kurt Singer; Trevor Winchester Swan; Edward Gibbon Wakefield; William Westgarth
J.E. King
35. Charles Henry Pearson
Marilyn Lake
36. Sir James Hight
Ralph Lattimore
37. Alban William Housego Phillips
Robert Leeson
38. Richard Ivan Manning
Daniel Leonard
39. John Bell Condliffe
Peter Lloyd
40. Kenneth Deakin Rivett
John Lodewijks
41. Catherine Helen Spence
Susan Magarey
42. Austin Stewart Holmes
Michael McLure
43. Richard Ivan Manning
†John McMillan
44. Frederic Charles Courtenay Benham; Leslie Henry Ernest Bury; Sir Douglas Berry Copland; Sir Alfred Charles Davidson; Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason; Gerald Gill Firth; John King Gifford; Torleiv Hytten; Robert Francis Irvine; Claud Victor Janes; Raymond Newton Kershaw; Clarence Edward Martin; Ronald Mendelsohn; Donald Henry Merry; Maxwell Newton
Alex Millmow
45. John Simeon Elkington; Sir John Winthrop Hackett; William Edward Hearn; James Mirams; David Syme; Henry Gyles Turner
Gregory Moore
46. Robert Torrens
Peter Moore
47. Leslie Cyril Jauncey; James Thomas Sutcliffe
Greg Patmore
48. Frank Richard Edward Mauldon
Ray Petridis
49. Albert Rex Bergstrom
Peter C.B. Phillips
50. Ronald Frank Henderson
Peter Saunders
51. Frank Geoffrey Davidson; Donald Henry Whitehead
Michael Schneider
52. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin; Albert Hamilton Tocker
John Singleton
53. Neil John Vousden
Ben Smith
54. Noel George Butlin; Edward Owen Giblin Shann
Graeme Donald Snooks
55. Frank Lidgett McDougall; Sir Arthur Tange
Sean Turnell
56. Bruce Robinson Davidson; Alan Grahame Lloyd
Alistair Watson
57. Cornelis Weststrate
Kees Weststrate
58. Muriel Jean Polglaze
Lynne Williams
59. Donald Cochrane
Ross Williams
60. Gordon Leslie Wood
†Robert Wilson
1. John Louis Dillon
Jock R. Anderson
2. Victor Elie Argy
Fred Argy
3. Horace Plessay Brown
Susan Bambrick
4. Richard Hal Snape
Gary Banks
5. Bernard Edward Murphy
Geoff Bertram
6. Horace Belshaw; Malcolm Robertson Fisher
Conrad Blyth
7. Richard Ivan Downing
Nicholas Brown
8. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin
Judith Butlin
9. James Bristock Brigden; Alfred De Lissa; Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin; Keith Sydney Isles; Arthur James Ogilvy; Arthur Smithies
William Coleman
10. Fred Henry George Gruen
Max Corden
11. Heinz Wolfgang Arndt; Herbert Burton; Herbert Cole Coombs; Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville; Sir Richard John Randall; Sir Edward Ronald Walker; Sir Roland Wilson
Selwyn Cornish
12. Thomas Michael Fitzgerald
Jerry Courvisanos
13. Raymond John Albert Harper
Robert Dixon
14. Harro Bernardelli; Ralph William Souter
Mark Donoghue
15. Sir Bernard Carl Ashwin; William Ball Sutch
Brian Easton
16. Colin Grant Clark
Anthony Endres
17. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell
Lewis T. Evans
18. Keith Oliver Campbell
Brian Fisher
19. Sir John Grenfell Crawford
Ross Garnaut
20. Barry Lewis John Gordon
Moira Gordon
21. Sir Hermann David Black; Arthur Duckworth; Russell Lloyd Mathews; Richard Charles Mills; Morris Birkbeck Pell; Garnet Vere Portus; Graham Shardalow Lee Tucker; William Charles Wentworth; Sidney Herbert Wostenholme
Peter Groenewegen
22. David Miles Bensusan-Butt
Louis Haddad
23. Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan
Alan Hall
24. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell
Viv B. Hall
25. Keith Septimus Frearson; Eric Alfred Russell; Wilfred Edward Graham Salter
G.C. Harcourt
26. William Pember Reeves
Gary Hawke
27. James Ford Cairns; Sir Stanley Roy Carver; Edward Pulsford; Sir Frederick Henry Wheeler
John Hawkins
28. Allan George Barnard Fisher; Colin George Frederick Simkin
Warren Hogan
29. Ross McDonald Parish
Geoff Hogbin
30. Henry George Lang; Sir Alan Roberts Low
Frank Holmes
31. Alexander Hunter
Thelma Hunter
32. Henry Bournes Higgins; Kingsley Middleton Laffer; Wilfred Prest
Joe Isaac
33. Herbert Heaton
Jack B. King
34. Sir Francis Anderson; William Henry Archer; Meredith Atkinson; Henry Heylyn Hayter; Christopher Ian Higgins; Maximilian Hirsch; William Stanley Jevons; Robert Mackenzie Johnston; Sir George Handley Knibbs; John Andrew La Nauze; Sir Anthony Musgrave; Godfrey Alfred Rattigan; Walter Scott; Kurt Singer; Trevor Winchester Swan; Edward Gibbon Wakefield; William Westgarth
J.E. King
35. Charles Henry Pearson
Marilyn Lake
36. Sir James Hight
Ralph Lattimore
37. Alban William Housego Phillips
Robert Leeson
38. Richard Ivan Manning
Daniel Leonard
39. John Bell Condliffe
Peter Lloyd
40. Kenneth Deakin Rivett
John Lodewijks
41. Catherine Helen Spence
Susan Magarey
42. Austin Stewart Holmes
Michael McLure
43. Richard Ivan Manning
†John McMillan
44. Frederic Charles Courtenay Benham; Leslie Henry Ernest Bury; Sir Douglas Berry Copland; Sir Alfred Charles Davidson; Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason; Gerald Gill Firth; John King Gifford; Torleiv Hytten; Robert Francis Irvine; Claud Victor Janes; Raymond Newton Kershaw; Clarence Edward Martin; Ronald Mendelsohn; Donald Henry Merry; Maxwell Newton
Alex Millmow
45. John Simeon Elkington; Sir John Winthrop Hackett; William Edward Hearn; James Mirams; David Syme; Henry Gyles Turner
Gregory Moore
46. Robert Torrens
Peter Moore
47. Leslie Cyril Jauncey; James Thomas Sutcliffe
Greg Patmore
48. Frank Richard Edward Mauldon
Ray Petridis
49. Albert Rex Bergstrom
Peter C.B. Phillips
50. Ronald Frank Henderson
Peter Saunders
51. Frank Geoffrey Davidson; Donald Henry Whitehead
Michael Schneider
52. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin; Albert Hamilton Tocker
John Singleton
53. Neil John Vousden
Ben Smith
54. Noel George Butlin; Edward Owen Giblin Shann
Graeme Donald Snooks
55. Frank Lidgett McDougall; Sir Arthur Tange
Sean Turnell
56. Bruce Robinson Davidson; Alan Grahame Lloyd
Alistair Watson
57. Cornelis Weststrate
Kees Weststrate
58. Muriel Jean Polglaze
Lynne Williams
59. Donald Cochrane
Ross Williams
60. Gordon Leslie Wood
†Robert Wilson