Format:
xx, 396 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
ISBN:
9789813369450
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought
Content:
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, Clark’s 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.
Content:
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 World’s 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 Heaven’s Gate -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789813369467
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789813369481
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Millmow, Alex The Gypsy Economist Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2021 ISBN 9789813369467
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Clark, Colin 1905-1989
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Wirtschaftstheorie
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Statistische Analyse
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Biografie
