Intro -- 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...

In this, the eightieth year of the formalisation of the Australian economics profession, a survey of it seems appropriate. While the profession`s beginnings were marked by an idiosyncratic, heterodox tradition, the paper finds that those attributes have by now been largely dissolved by...

Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a 'very dangerous science'. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas...