When the Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz visited Australia in 2010 he commended the Rudd Government’s policy response to the Global Financial Crisis as a proper and effective pre-emptive measure. The stimulus, which staved off any creeping sign of recession, bore a considerable Treasury imprint; and it could be said that the official family of economic advisers, that is, the Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Australia, were in their concerted action never so Keynesian in practice. It is appropriate then to visit the Keynesian revolution in post-war Australia recalling that three of the mandarins, Roland Wilson, John Crawford and H.C. ‘Nugget’ Coombs, were professionally trained economists. Moreover, as J.K. Galbraith reminds us, t...
When Douglas Copland of the University of Melbourne was about to go abroad in 1933, a leading Austra...
In this, the eightieth year of the formalisation of the Australian economics profession, a survey of...
These chapters highlight an important but neglected point: economics often provides profound insight...
Thirty years ago, in April 1975, Milton Friedman, came to Australia to declare that the world econom...
How the macroeconomic theories of Keynes influenced the development of Government Economic Policy af...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
There was much in common in the development of Post-Keynesian economics in Australia and New Zealand...
When Joan Robinson visited Monash University in 1975 she was at the height of her fame. She had just...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
The global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008 sent the economies of major developed nations into freefal...
When Douglas Copland of the University of Melbourne was about to go abroad in 1933, a leading Austra...
In this, the eightieth year of the formalisation of the Australian economics profession, a survey of...
These chapters highlight an important but neglected point: economics often provides profound insight...
Thirty years ago, in April 1975, Milton Friedman, came to Australia to declare that the world econom...
How the macroeconomic theories of Keynes influenced the development of Government Economic Policy af...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
There was much in common in the development of Post-Keynesian economics in Australia and New Zealand...
When Joan Robinson visited Monash University in 1975 she was at the height of her fame. She had just...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of mode...
The global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008 sent the economies of major developed nations into freefal...
When Douglas Copland of the University of Melbourne was about to go abroad in 1933, a leading Austra...
In this, the eightieth year of the formalisation of the Australian economics profession, a survey of...
These chapters highlight an important but neglected point: economics often provides profound insight...