Moore, Gregory - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 18 (2011) 1, pp. 19-54
William Edward Hearn is generally regarded as Australia's first economist of international note and his Plutology ([1863]1864) is invariably deemed to be Australia's first economics text. In this paper I argue that it is more appropriate to describe Hearn as an Anglo-Irish economist and, to this...