- Offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark
- Argues that Clark was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP
- States that Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush
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This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-emergence of India and China within the global economy. In 1945, he predicted the rise and persistence of inflation when taxation levels exceeded 25 per cent of GNP. And he was also the first economist to debunk post-war predictions of mass hunger by arguing that rapid population growth engendered economic development. Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush. His imaginative wanderings qualify him as the eminent gypsy economist for the 20th century.
- About the authors
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Alex Millmow was formerly an associate professor in economics at Federation University Australia where he is now an honorary research fellow. He is also an honorary research fellow at the School of History, Australian National University. He is currently President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. His last book was A History of Australasian Economic Thought IN 2017.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-14
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Brilliant Beginnings
Pages 17-38
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Cambridge and Fabianism
Pages 39-53
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Becoming the World’s Economic Statistician
Pages 55-70
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Great Southern Land
Pages 73-83
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Gypsy Economist
- Book Subtitle
- The Life and Times of Colin Clark
- Authors
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- alex millmow
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-336-946-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-33-6946-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-336-945-0
- Series ISSN
- 2662-6578
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 396
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations
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