Educating for Business, Public Service and the Social Sciences A History of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney 1920-1999.

Tertiary economics and business education started early in Australia but was not organised on a faculty basis until the 20th century. Commerce and business teaching at Sydney University began in 1906, and from 1920 was taught in the Faculty of Economics, together with public administration and accou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Groenewegen, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
University of Sydney. > Faculty of Economics > History.
University of Sydney. > Faculty of Economics
Economics > Study and teaching (Higher) > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.) > History.
Economics > Study and teaching (Higher)
New South Wales > Sydney
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • DEAN'S PREFACE
  • AUTHOR'S PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PRELUDE
  • CHAPTER 1
  • Two professors, many part-time teachers, brilliant graduates and fine social occasions: beginnings of the new, professional, Faculty of Economics (1920-28)
  • CHAPTER 2
  • The faculty in Depression and war, 1929-45
  • CHAPTER 3
  • Post-war reconstruction and shortening the BEc degree (1945-62)
  • CHAPTER 4
  • The Merewether Building (1965) and a Golden Jubilee (1970): the faculty (1963-72)
  • CHAPTER 5
  • Turmoil in the cloisters: University governance, student participation, and the Political Economy dispute, 1973-1984
  • CHAPTER 6
  • Towards a Faculty of Economics and Business: new degrees and increased opportunities for specialisation, 1985-99
  • EPILOGUE. The Faculty of Economics and Business in its first decade
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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