Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The professionalization of Australasian economics -- The practical utopia of economics -- Ordeal by fire : Australasian economists and the great depression -- How Keynes came to Australasia -- War, reconstruction and economic theory -- A...

In this, the eightieth year of the formalisation of the Australian economics profession, a survey of it seems appropriate. While the profession`s beginnings were marked by an idiosyncratic, heterodox tradition, the paper finds that those attributes have by now been largely dissolved by...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: 1905-1937 The Makings of an Applied Economist -- Chapter 2 Brilliant Beginnings -- Chapter 3 Cambridge and Fabianism -- Chapter 4 Becoming the World’s Economic Statistician -- Part II: 1937-1952 Australian Idyll -- Chapter 5 Great Southern Land -- Chapter 6...