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The Campaign To Arrest Ed Shann's Influence In Western Australia, Gregory Moore
The Campaign To Arrest Ed Shann's Influence In Western Australia, Gregory Moore
Gregory Moore
Edward Shann used his status as a foundation professor at the University of Western Australia (1913-34) both to articulate laissez-faire ideas in public forums and to mould a generation of bright undergraduates within a singular economics program that was free-market, policy-oriented and historical in flavour. A number of powerful identities in Western Australia resented the free-market commentaries that Shann dispensed in the public domain and before his students, and hence orchestrated a public campaign to arrest his influence. In this paper I provide an account of Shann’s influence in Western Australia from 1913 to 1934, trace the campaign waged against …
The Anglo-Irish Context For William Edward Hearn's Economic Beliefs And The Ultimate Failure Of His Plutology, Gregory Moore
The Anglo-Irish Context For William Edward Hearn's Economic Beliefs And The Ultimate Failure Of His Plutology, Gregory Moore
Gregory Moore
William Edward Hearn was the first Australian economist of international
note. His major publication in the discipline of economics, Plutology (Hearn
1863), was praised by most of the leading economists of the late-Victorian
period, including William Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and Francis Ysidro
Edgeworth. Hearn’s economic ideas (and to a lesser extent his life) have
subsequently been the subject of more books, monographs and essays than
those of any other Australian economist.1 The scholarship contained in these
publications is, to say the least, breathtaking. Unfortunately, however, nearly
all of the authors of these publications have been pre-occupied with that …