The power of economic ideas : the origins of macroeconomic management in Australia, 1929-39 /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The triumph of the economists?
- Part I. Backing into the limelight: the interwar Australian economics profession. Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s
- The Australian economy during the Depression decade
- The interwar Australian economics profession
- Part II. Triumph and tribulation. The Premiers' Plan and the economists
- The agonistes of the economists, 1931-1932
- The Australian recovery, 1933-1936
- Part III. The march of Keynesian ideas. The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems
- Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state?
- The economics of near-war.