The gypsy economist : the life and times of Colin Clark / Alex Millmow.
Millmow, Alex, author.
2021
HB76
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Title The gypsy economist : the life and times of Colin Clark / Alex Millmow.
Author Millmow, Alex, author.
ISBN 9789813369467 (electronic bk.)
9813369469 (electronic bk.)
9813369450
9789813369450
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6946-7
Published Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-33-6946-7 doi
Call Number HB76
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.092
Summary This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clarks work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-emergence of India and China within the global economy. In 1945, he predicted the rise and persistence of inflation when taxation levels exceeded 25 per cent of GNP. And he was also the first economist to debunk post-war predictions of mass hunger by arguing that rapid population growth engendered economic development. Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush. His imaginative wanderings qualify him as the eminent gypsy economist for the 20th century. Alex Millmow was formerly an associate professor in economics at Federation University Australia where he is now an honorary research fellow. He is also an honorary research fellow at the School of History, Australian National University. He is currently President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. His last book was A History of Australasian Economic Thought IN 2017.
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
PART I: 1905-1937 The Makings of an Applied Economist
Chapter 2 Brilliant Beginnings
Chapter 3 Cambridge and Fabianism
Chapter 4 Becoming the Worlds Economic Statistician
Part II: 1937-1952 Australian Idyll
Chapter 5 Great Southern Land
Chapter 6 Forsaking Keynes
Chapter 7 Three classic contributions
Chapter 8 Spiritual Awakening
Chapter 9 Two Revelations
Chapter 10 Macroeconomics and the Pursuit of Ruralism
Chapter 11The Tarmac Economist
PART III: 1953-1969 A Gypsy Scholar at Oxford
Chapter 12 Research Leadership
Chapter 13The Man who Smashed Convention
Chapter 14 A Critical Eye on British Economic Policy
Chapter 15 The Grand Soothsayer
Chapter 16 Slaying the Doomsayers
Chapter 17 Angling for Australia
Part IV: 1969-1989 Australia Resumed
Chapter 18 The Monash Years
Chapter 19 At Heavens Gate
Bibliography
Index.

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