How Richard Downing obtained the Ritchie Chair

Title: How Richard Downing obtained the Ritchie Chair
Creator: Millmow, Alex
Date: 2013
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/71205
Identifier: vital:6720
Identifier: ISSN:1037-0196
Abstract: This article discusses how, after a tortuous process, Melbourne University found the right person to occupy the Ritchie Research Chair in Economics. It had been a position that had fallen vacant for over a decade after L.F. Giblin's retirement in 1940. At a time when good economists were in short supply and following the failure of an advertising campaign, the position was offered to one of Melbourne's own, Richard Downing. Before his elevation, a number of leading Australian economists had been considered. One of them, Douglas Copland, had always relished the position but there were institutional and personal hurdles facing his appointment.
Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 58, no. Summer (2013), p. 57-70
Rights: Copyright History of Economic Thought Society of Australia
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Economics; Attitudes; University of Melbourne
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