Author : William Coleman
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1920942505
"This book tells the story of four men - L.F.Giblin, J.B. Brigden, D.B.Copland, and Roland Wilson - who, in 1920s Tasmania, formed a personal and intellectual bond that was to prove a pivot of economic thought, policy-making and institution-building in mid-century Australia."--p. ix.
Author : Samuel Furphy
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1925022331
In the history and folklore of Australia’s Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the ‘Seven Dwarfs’ has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for the first time, talented university graduates entered the public service, rose to senior levels, and exerted great influence over the affairs of the Commonwealth. With the secure tenure of being permanent heads of departments, they defined the age of the public service mandarin. This book explores the lives and influence of the Seven Dwarfs and their colleagues, bringing together the leading researchers on post-war Australian administration. Featuring four thematic chapters and ten biographical portraits, it offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the Commonwealth Public Service during a critical period in its history.
Author : Steve Giblin
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1637580657
During his first few weeks as a Navy SEAL, Steve Giblin found a simple, typewritten document left behind in an old desk drawer by the Team commanding officer, entitled “THE TEN ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF AN UNDERWATER DEMOLITION MAN.” That single page, and the maxims it contained, followed Steve wherever he was based during his twenty-six-year career with the SEALs—fourteen of those as part of the legendary strike force that took down Osama bin Laden. Steve still lives by those tenets today, coming to realize how it laid out a regimen not just for elite warriors, but also for the rest of us in our day-to-day lives. Now Steve has applied them to this post-COVID-19 world we find ourselves living in, a new normal that will test both our resolve and our psyches as we’re challenged as we’ve never been before. Applying his own experiences as a Navy SEAL to these everyday rigors, Steve provides a prescription for both healing and thriving, a guide map to get to the other side better and stronger than we were at the beginning of a journey none of us signed up for. We’re all walking in mud; thankfully, this book offers the best and surest strategy to lift ourselves from it.
Author : Peter L. Swan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303113737X
This book, the first of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia’s greatest ever economist. An insightful biography is accompanied with Swan’s most prominent articles to provide a broad view of his life and work. Particular attention is given to the famous Swan Diagram, known among macroeconomists worldwide, Swan’s four zones of economic unhappiness, his view of how economies grew based on capital deepening and technical progress, and the Solow-Swan model of economic growth. This book aims to shed light on the enigmatic and influential life of Trevor Winchester Swan. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought.
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Rutgers University
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher : Annual Supplement to History o
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. The essays consider both the potential and the limits of life writing, which has traditionally been used sparingly by historians of economics, and examine types of biographies, the relationship between autobiography and identity, and the writing of biography. Contributors to this collection question whether biography is essential to understanding the history of economic ideas and consider how autobiographical materials should be read and interpreted by historians. Articles consider the treatment of autobiographical materials such as conversations and testimonies, the construction of heroes and villains, the relationship between scientific biography and literary biography, and concerns related to living subjects. Several essays address the role of biography and autobiography in the study of economists such as F. A. Hayek, Harry Johnson, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Oskar Morgenstern, and François Quesnay, concluding with several accounts of the interconnection of the historians' projects with their own autobiographies. All 2007 subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of "Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics" as part of their subscription. Contributors Roger E. Backhouse Bruce Caldwell Loïc Charles William Coleman Robert W. Dimand Paul John Eakin Ross B. Emmett Evelyn L. Forget Craufurd D. Goodwin Peter Groenewegen Malachi Haim Hacohen Jan-Otmar Hesse Patricia Laurence Frederic S. Lee Robert Leonard Tiago Mata D. E. Moggridge Jeremy D. Popkin Mike Reay Christine Théré E. Roy Weintraub
Author : Alex Millmow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317506146
This book explains how Australian and New Zealand economists exerted influence on economic thought and contributed to the economic life of their respective countries in the twentieth century. Besides surveying theorists and innovators, this book also considers some of the key expositors and builders of the academic economics profession in both countries. The book covers key economic events including the Great Depression, the Second World War the post-war boom and the great inflation that overtook it and, lastly, the economic reform programs that both Australia and New Zealand undertook in the 1980s.
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Publisher : Springer
Page : 7493 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1349588024
The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.
Author : William Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019875325X
This volume analyses how Australia's economic and social policy diverges from that of the wider Anglophone world. It looks at diverse issues such as labour market regulation, taxation, and political power and voting.
