A Fabian paradise or a one-man show? How the interwar Queensland economy seduced two prominent English economists
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 62, no. 2 (2022), p. 123-140
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- Description: 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.
Colin Clark and Australia
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History of Economics Review Vol. 56, no. 1 (2012), p. 56-70
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- Description: Colin Clark was a rather quixotic figure. Much of his complex character is captured not only in his varied career choices but also the comments made of him by various referees over the years. While Clark spent half of his career in England and half in Australia it was to the latter that he was drawn. He was happy to be identified as an Australian economist. Despite his eminent academic record he was never to occupy a professorial chair in Australia. This was largely attributable to his own choices in career and his penchant for a doctrinaire brand of economics.