This book documents the history of economic discourse in Australia and New Zealand from the early days of European settlement. Many of the early economists were immigrants (William Hearn, Charles Pearson, Catherine Spence, David Syme). A few (such as W.C. Wentworth, born on the First Fleet) were proud natives, self-taught but confident and assertive in their use of economic arguments. The 20th century brought European refugees (Heinz Arndt, Harro Bernardelli, Fred Gruen, Kurt Singer) and a healthy crop of locally-born public servant-economists (Bernard Ashwin, John Crawford, 'Nugget' Coombs, Leslie Melville, Roland Wilson). There were theorists of international renown (Richard Manning, Wilfred Salter, Trevor Swan), some who made important contributions to public policy debates (Ronald Henderson, Eric Russell) or distinguished themselves in econometrics (Rex Bergstrom, Bill Phillips). The 130 entries in this volume have been written by more than 50 international authorities, revealing the depth and diversity of economics in Australia and New Zealand over almost two centuries.

This biographical dictionary is a rich and comprehensive original reference work that will appeal to many economists and researchers of history and public policy in addition to those involved in the history of economic thought.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. John Louis Dillon Jock R. Anderson 2. Victor Elie Argy Fred Argy 3. Horace Plessay Brown Susan Bambrick 4. Richard Hal Snape Gary Banks 5. Bernard Edward Murphy Geoff Bertram 6. Horace Belshaw; Malcolm Robertson Fisher Conrad Blyth 7. Richard Ivan Downing Nicholas Brown 8. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin Judith Butlin 9. James Bristock Brigden; Alfred De Lissa; Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin; Keith Sydney Isles; Arthur James Ogilvy; Arthur Smithies William Coleman 10. Fred Henry George Gruen Max Corden 11. Heinz Wolfgang Arndt; Herbert Burton; Herbert Cole Coombs; Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville; Sir Richard John Randall; Sir Edward Ronald Walker; Sir Roland Wilson Selwyn Cornish 12. Thomas Michael Fitzgerald Jerry Courvisanos 13. Raymond John Albert Harper Robert Dixon 14. Harro Bernardelli; Ralph William Souter Mark Donoghue 15. Sir Bernard Carl Ashwin; William Ball Sutch Brian Easton 16. Colin Grant Clark Anthony Endres 17. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell Lewis T. Evans 18. Keith Oliver Campbell Brian Fisher 19. Sir John Grenfell Crawford Ross Garnaut 20. Barry Lewis John Gordon Moira Gordon 21. Sir Hermann David Black; Arthur Duckworth; Russell Lloyd Mathews; Richard Charles Mills; Morris Birkbeck Pell; Garnet Vere Portus; Graham Shardalow Lee Tucker; William Charles Wentworth; Sidney Herbert Wostenholme Peter Groenewegen 22. David Miles Bensusan-Butt Louis Haddad 23. Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan Alan Hall 24. Bryan Passmore Philpott; Jan Louise Whitwell Viv B. Hall 25. Keith Septimus Frearson; Eric Alfred Russell; Wilfred Edward Graham Salter G.C. Harcourt 26. William Pember Reeves Gary Hawke 27. James Ford Cairns; Sir Stanley Roy Carver; Edward Pulsford; Sir Frederick Henry Wheeler John Hawkins 28. Allan George Barnard Fisher; Colin George Frederick Simkin Warren Hogan 29. Ross McDonald Parish Geoff Hogbin 30. Henry George Lang; Sir Alan Roberts Low Frank Holmes 31. Alexander Hunter Thelma Hunter 32. Henry Bournes Higgins; Kingsley Middleton Laffer; Wilfred Prest Joe Isaac 33. Herbert Heaton Jack B. King 34. Sir Francis Anderson; William Henry Archer; Meredith Atkinson; Henry Heylyn Hayter; Christopher Ian Higgins; Maximilian Hirsch; William Stanley Jevons; Robert Mackenzie Johnston; Sir George Handley Knibbs; John Andrew La Nauze; Sir Anthony Musgrave; Godfrey Alfred Rattigan; Walter Scott; Kurt Singer; Trevor Winchester Swan; Edward Gibbon Wakefield; William Westgarth J.E. King 35. Charles Henry Pearson Marilyn Lake 36. Sir James Hight Ralph Lattimore 37. Alban William Housego Phillips Robert Leeson 38. Richard Ivan Manning Daniel Leonard 39. John Bell Condliffe Peter Lloyd 40. Kenneth Deakin Rivett John Lodewijks 41. Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey 42. Austin Stewart Holmes Michael McLure 43. Richard Ivan Manning †John McMillan 44. Frederic Charles Courtenay Benham; Leslie Henry Ernest Bury; Sir Douglas Berry Copland; Sir Alfred Charles Davidson; Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason; Gerald Gill Firth; John King Gifford; Torleiv Hytten; Robert Francis Irvine; Claud Victor Janes; Raymond Newton Kershaw; Clarence Edward Martin; Ronald Mendelsohn; Donald Henry Merry; Maxwell Newton Alex Millmow 45. John Simeon Elkington; Sir John Winthrop Hackett; William Edward Hearn; James Mirams; David Syme; Henry Gyles Turner Gregory Moore 46. Robert Torrens Peter Moore 47. Leslie Cyril Jauncey; James Thomas Sutcliffe Greg Patmore 48. Frank Richard Edward Mauldon Ray Petridis 49. Albert Rex Bergstrom Peter C.B. Phillips 50. Ronald Frank Henderson Peter Saunders 51. Frank Geoffrey Davidson; Donald Henry Whitehead Michael Schneider 52. Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin; Albert Hamilton Tocker John Singleton 53. Neil John Vousden Ben Smith 54. Noel George Butlin; Edward Owen Giblin Shann Graeme Donald Snooks 55. Frank Lidgett McDougall; Sir Arthur Tange Sean Turnell 56. Bruce Robinson Davidson; Alan Grahame Lloyd Alistair Watson 57. Cornelis Weststrate Kees Weststrate 58. Muriel Jean Polglaze Lynne Williams 59. Donald Cochrane Ross Williams 60. Gordon Leslie Wood †Robert Wilson