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Colin Clark () Economist and Agricultural Economist
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The Colin Clark Memorial Lecture Series
About the series
The lecture series is named in honour of the late Dr Colin Clark and his outstanding contribution to the field of economics. Each year a leading expert in economics is invited to present the keynote address.
Dr Colin Clark was a UQ Economics academic whose work on national income accounting was fundamentally important to the development of macroeconomics and to the approach of John Maynard Keynes.
While visiting Australia, he accepted the invitation of Queensland Premier Forgan Smith to work with the government. He reflected on the opportunity in a letter to John Keynes writing the opportunity was "too remarkable an opportunity to be missed for putting economics into practice."
In he was appointed Government Statistician, Director of the Bureau of Industry, and Financial Advisor to the Queensland Treasury, and provided the State's first set of economic accounts in
Dr Clark's greatest contribution to economics was his
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The zigenare Economist
Overview
- Authors:
- Alex Millmow
statsförbund Business School, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia
- Offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark
- Argues that Clark was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP
- States that Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush
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This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-eme