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Book Giblin s Platoon

Download or read book Giblin s Platoon written by William Coleman and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of four men - L.F.Giblin, J.B. Brigden, D.B.Copland, and Roland Wilson - who, in 1920s Tasmania, formed a personal and intellectual bond that was to prove a pivot of economic thought, policy-making and institution-building in mid-century Australia."--p. ix.

Book The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins

Download or read book The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins written by Samuel Furphy and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history and folklore of Australia’s Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the ‘Seven Dwarfs’ has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for the first time, talented university graduates entered the public service, rose to senior levels, and exerted great influence over the affairs of the Commonwealth. With the secure tenure of being permanent heads of departments, they defined the age of the public service mandarin. This book explores the lives and influence of the Seven Dwarfs and their colleagues, bringing together the leading researchers on post-war Australian administration. Featuring four thematic chapters and ten biographical portraits, it offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the Commonwealth Public Service during a critical period in its history.

Book Army Navy Air Force Register and Defense Times

Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Register and Defense Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Download or read book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 7493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.

Book A History of Australasian Economic Thought

Download or read book A History of Australasian Economic Thought written by Alex Millmow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the scene -- 2 The professionalisation of Australasian economics -- 3 The practical Utopia of economics -- 4 Ordeal by fire: Australasian economists and the Great Depression -- 5 How Keynes came to Australasia -- 6 War, reconstruction and economic theory -- 7 A coming of age for Australasian economics -- 8 The flowering of Australasian economics -- 9 Hardly the Age of Aquarius -- 10 The age of economic reform -- 11 Australasian economics at century's end -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography of primary sources -- Index.

Book Trevor Winchester Swan  Volume I

Download or read book Trevor Winchester Swan Volume I written by Peter L. Swan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia’s greatest ever economist. An insightful biography is accompanied with Swan’s most prominent articles to provide a broad view of his life and work. Particular attention is given to the famous Swan Diagram, known among macroeconomists worldwide, Swan’s four zones of economic unhappiness, his view of how economies grew based on capital deepening and technical progress, and the Solow-Swan model of economic growth. This book aims to shed light on the enigmatic and influential life of Trevor Winchester Swan. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought.

Book Economists  Lives

Download or read book Economists Lives written by E. Roy Weintraub and published by Annual Supplement to History o. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. The essays consider both the potential and the limits of life writing, which has traditionally been used sparingly by historians of economics, and examine types of biographies, the relationship between autobiography and identity, and the writing of biography. Contributors to this collection question whether biography is essential to understanding the history of economic ideas and consider how autobiographical materials should be read and interpreted by historians. Articles consider the treatment of autobiographical materials such as conversations and testimonies, the construction of heroes and villains, the relationship between scientific biography and literary biography, and concerns related to living subjects. Several essays address the role of biography and autobiography in the study of economists such as F. A. Hayek, Harry Johnson, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Oskar Morgenstern, and François Quesnay, concluding with several accounts of the interconnection of the historians' projects with their own autobiographies. All 2007 subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of "Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics" as part of their subscription. Contributors Roger E. Backhouse Bruce Caldwell Loïc Charles William Coleman Robert W. Dimand Paul John Eakin Ross B. Emmett Evelyn L. Forget Craufurd D. Goodwin Peter Groenewegen Malachi Haim Hacohen Jan-Otmar Hesse Patricia Laurence Frederic S. Lee Robert Leonard Tiago Mata D. E. Moggridge Jeremy D. Popkin Mike Reay Christine Théré E. Roy Weintraub

Book Dictionary of World Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Barry Jones and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post‑industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

Book Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital

Download or read book Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital written by Jocelyn Pixley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the recent financial crisis, the conflict between sovereign states and banks over who controls the creation of money was thrown into sharp relief. This collection investigates the relationship between states and banks, arguing that conflicts between the two over control of money produces critical junctures. Drawing on Max Weber's concept of 'mobile capital', the book examines the mobility of capital networks in contexts of funding warfare, global bubbles and dangerous instability disengaged from social-economic activity. It proposes that mobile capital is a primary feature of capitalism and nation states, and furthermore, argues that the perennial, hierarchical struggles between states and global banks is intrinsic to capitalism. Featuring authors writing from an impressively diverse range of academic backgrounds (including sociology, geography, economics and politics), Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital presents a variety of analyses using current or past examples from different countries, federations, and of differing forms of mobile capital.

Book A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists written by John Edward King and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable reference book and at the same time an account of economics in Australia that can be read right thhrough as history. J. King, La Trobe University, Australia.

Book Only in Australia

Download or read book Only in Australia written by William Coleman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers from a conference entitled The Australian Sonderweg: Between Choice, Chance and Destiny, held in 2014 on the Fremantle Campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA).

Book Policy analysis in Australia

Download or read book Policy analysis in Australia written by Head, Brian and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Analysis in Australia offers a distinctly Australian interpretation of policy scholarship with eighteen chapters strongly reflecting the outstanding contributions of Australian scholars to the field of public policy. It provides a coherent overview of the strengths and opportunities for policy analysis in Australia. It recognises that government agencies are no longer regarded as the sole source of sound policy analysis, and takes a broad view of policy analysis capacity, both within institutions at all levels of government, and beyond government in the media, political parties, business, and non-government associations. It provides a valuable contribution to Australian scholarship about policy analysis in academic, professional, teaching and learning contexts, and is a key addition to research and teaching in comparative policy analysis and policy studies more generally.

Book The Money Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Bowen
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-03
  • ISBN : 0522866611
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Money Men written by Chris Bowen and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do we know about the second most important office in the nation? Who was Australia's first treasurer? Who resigned because of a relationship breakdown with the PM? And who did Frank Hardy base his character Ted Thurgood in Power without Glory on? The Money Men is the first in-depth look at the twelve most notable and interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings a unique insider perspective to the lessons learned from the successes and failures of those who went before him. Who does Chris Bowen think has been Australia's most exceptional Treasurer? With revealing interviews of the five last treasurers, The Money Men dares to answer that question.

Book Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette

Download or read book Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette written by Australia and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walking in Mud

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  • Author : Steve Giblin
  • Publisher : Post Hill Press
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 1637580657
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Walking in Mud written by Steve Giblin and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his first few weeks as a Navy SEAL, Steve Giblin found a simple, typewritten document left behind in an old desk drawer by the Team commanding officer, entitled “THE TEN ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF AN UNDERWATER DEMOLITION MAN.” That single page, and the maxims it contained, followed Steve wherever he was based during his twenty-six-year career with the SEALs—fourteen of those as part of the legendary strike force that took down Osama bin Laden. Steve still lives by those tenets today, coming to realize how it laid out a regimen not just for elite warriors, but also for the rest of us in our day-to-day lives. Now Steve has applied them to this post-COVID-19 world we find ourselves living in, a new normal that will test both our resolve and our psyches as we’re challenged as we’ve never been before. Applying his own experiences as a Navy SEAL to these everyday rigors, Steve provides a prescription for both healing and thriving, a guide map to get to the other side better and stronger than we were at the beginning of a journey none of us signed up for. We’re all walking in mud; thankfully, this book offers the best and surest strategy to lift ourselves from it.

Book Bulletin

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  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Rutgers University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Rutgers University and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: