The Power of Economic Ideas : The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929-39.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Lists of abbreviations -- A word on the artwork -- Preface -- 1. The triumph of the economists? -- Part I. Backing into the Limelight: the Interwar Australian Economics Profession -- 2. Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s -- 3. The Australian economy during the Depression decade -- 4. The interwar Australian economics profession -- Part II. Triumph and Tribulation -- 5. The Premiers' Plan and the economists -- 6. The agonistes of the economists, 1931-1932 -- 7. The Australian recovery, 1933-1936 -- Part III. The March of Keynesian Ideas -- 8. The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems -- 9. Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state? -- 10. The economics of near-war -- Dramatis personae -- Bibliography.

This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena.

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