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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Millmow, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.