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The Power of Economic Ideas
The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929-39
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eBook - PDF
The Power of Economic Ideas
The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929-39
About this book
This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a class
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Lists of abbreviations
- A word on the artwork
- Preface
- 1. The triumph of the economists?
- Part I. Backing into the Limelight: the Interwar Australian Economics Profession
- 2. Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s
- 3. The Australian economy during the Depression decade
- 4. The interwar Australian economics profession
- Part II. Triumph and Tribulation
- 5. The Premiers’ Plan and the economists
- 6. The agonistes of the economists, 1931–1932
- 7. The Australian recovery, 1933–1936
- Part III. The March of Keynesian Ideas
- 8. The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems
- 9. Australia, 1936–1938: the nascent Keynesian state?
- 10. The economics of near-war
- Dramatis personae
- Bibliography
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