This brief paper contrasts the history of economic thought programs offered at the University of Western Australia in 1953 and 2003: an interval of fifty years. The study identifies lessons for current HET units from Merab Harris' class of '53, where HET was taught with general reference to...

From the early 1960s onwards, Arnold Zellner has been publishing papers in the areas of statistical theory, econometric applications and macroeconomic modelling. This conversation canvasses Zellner's transition from physics to economics, the reason for the renewal of interest in Bayes's theorem...

In 1955 the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded the inagural Internazionale “Antonio Feltrinelli” Premio per le Scienze Economiche e Sociali to Arthur Cecil Pigou. This paper provides some context to the episode and considers the establishment of the prize; the membership of the 1955...