Arndt's story : the life of an Australian economist

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Peter, Author.

Contributor:

Drake, P. J. (Peter Joseph), Contributor.

Cornish, Selwyn, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economists--Australia--Biography.

Economists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Australian National University E Press 2007

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The year of Heinz Wolfgang Arndt's birth, 1915, was not a good time for a German boy to be born. His country was soon to be defeated in a great war, his school years were shadowed by the rise of Hitler. Yet when Heinz's long-buried Jewish background led his academic father to lose his chair in chemistry and flee to Oxford, Heinz followed.

Contents:

Arndt's Story

Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Note on Sources

Note on Authors

Preface

Prelude

Part One

1. From Kaiser to Hitler

2. Oxford Made Him

3. Arndt in the Internment Camp

4. Chatham House

Part Two

5. Passage to Australia

6. The University of Sydney

7. Public Intellectual

8. Ruth's Trip to Europe

9. New Horizons

10. Canberra University College

11. Canberra

12. South Carolina

13. Politics

14. Economics and Policy

15. Geneva

16. A New Lease of Intellectual Life

Part Three

17. Economic Development in Practice

18. The Department of Economics, RSPS, 1963-80

19. Sukarno's Indonesia

20. Suharto's Indonesia

21. Other Parts of Asia

22. Retirement

Postlude

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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OCLC:

225500179