- Title
- Colin Clark
- Creator
- Millmow, Alex
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173765
- Identifier
- vital:14730
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118569.00075
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781788118569 (ISBN); 9781847200082 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- Colin Clark and Keynes started an intellectual association during the Depression years when the younger man was, following a recommendation from G.D.H. Cole, recruited to work for the Economic Advisory Council. Following that appointment, Keynes ensured that Clark took up a lectureship in statistics. While not a member of the Cambridge Circus, Clark gave Keynes the means to understand how economic aggregates were compiled and, more importantly, how they could be affected by policy action. Clark also provided the number work for Kahn’s income expenditure multiplier. The chance to take a one-year lecturing assignment overseas, spent mostly in Australia, ended up with Clark forsaking Cambridge and taking a job with the Queensland Government because, as he told Keynes, it was the chance to put economics into action. Even distant, Clark’s most cited article on the fiscal limitation of taxation was partly inspired by a comment made by Keynes on public finance. The bond between the two men remained close, with Clark later writing several memorials celebrating the life of his benefactor. © Robert W. Dimand and Harald Hagemann 2019.
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
- Relation
- The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes p. 413-418
- Rights
- Copyright @ Edward Elgar Publishing Inc
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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