The power of economic ideas : the origins of Keynesian macroeconomic management in interwar Australia 1929-39 / Alex Millmow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millmow, Alex, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keynesian economics.

Macroeconomics.

Australia--Economic conditions--1918-.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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 Systems9. Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state?; 10. The economics of near-war; Dramatis personae; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 30, 2016).

ISBN:

9781921666278

1921666277

OCLC:

639930999

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459452