- Title
- A Fabian paradise or a one-man show? How the interwar Queensland economy seduced two prominent English economists
- Creator
- Millmow, Alex
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187928
- Identifier
- vital:17185
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12238
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-8992 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This article tells how the two British economists Hugh Dalton and Colin Clark, came to regard Queensland in the 1930s as an enviable model of economic development. Both men were Fabian socialists and impressed by Queensland's authoritarian premier and by its array of economic controls. Clark even surrendered a promising career at Cambridge to become an economic advisor there. In turn, Queensland, and a personal spiritual crisis, would propel Clark to discard Fabianism for Distributivism. In the final analysis Queensland's agrarian socialism was not drawn upon Fabian lines but rather impelled by a mix of rural development and electoral pragmatism. © 2022 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Relation
- Australian Economic History Review Vol. 62, no. 2 (2022), p. 123-140
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Subject
- 3801 Applied economics; 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields; 4303 Historical studies; Colin Clark; Fabianism; Hugh Dalton; Queensland; William Forgan Smith
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