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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137555603321

Autore

Millmow Alex

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-921666-27-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

330.156

Soggetti

Keynesian economics

Macroeconomics

Australia Economic conditions 1918-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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