- Title
- The influence of the history of economic thought on pluralism : The Cambridge economic tradition and Australian economics
- Creator
- Millmow, Alex
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100820
- Identifier
- vital:10604
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2625402
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138951761 ISBN (hbk);
- Abstract
- This chapter assesses the influence Cambridge University has had upon the development of Australian economics including a commitment to pluralism in the post-war era. In particular, the chapter identifies some of the twenty-odd Australian economists who went to Cambridge during the period 1945-60 intent upon furthering their education. Some of their experiences are recounted in what was then one of the world's leading economics departments. It was, however, a time when the Cambridge Faculty of Economics and Politics was becoming fractured along doctrinal lines. It seems that nearly all of the Australian economists who went there found the experience profound. Some, like Geoff Harcourt, have written about how, initially at least, their supervision was plainly inadequate. More controversially, Murray Kemp has spoken about 'The dead hand of Cambridge economics', suggesting that the experience for most Australian economics students there had not been a happy one due to the lack of supervision and that, in short, 'they'd made a huge mistake in coming to England' (Coleman 2005, p.7). Kemp was also implying that all the new and exciting developments in economics were being produced in the USA with Britain left behind.
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Reclaiming pluralism in economics : Essays in honour of John E. King Chapter 6 p. 76-96
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 selection and editorial material, Jerry Courvisanos, James Doughney and Alex Millmow; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Pluralism; Economics; History of economic thought; Heterodox; John Edward King
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