| Heinz Arndt |
| Born | Heinz Wolfgang Arndt
1915
Breslau, Germany |
| Died | 6 May 2002
Canberra, Australia |
| Occupation | economist, lecturer, editor, author |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genres | Economics |
| Notable work(s) | The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen Thirties
The Australian Trading Banks
The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth: A Study of Contemporary Thought |
| Notable award(s) | Bintang Jasa Pratama (Indonesian Presidential Medal of Merit) (1995) |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth (nee Strohsahl) |
| Children | Christopher
Nicholas
Bettina |
Heinz (Wolfgang) Arndt (1915 - 6 May 2002) was an influential Australian economist.[1]
[edit] Biography
Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Germany in 1915, gained two degrees at Oxford and taught at the London School of Economics and Manchester University before settling in Australia in 1946. In 1950, he took up a chairmanship in economics at the then Canberra University College. He became head of the department at the research school of Pacific and Asian studies in 1963, and retained this position until retiring in 1980. He died in May 2002.
Arndt was President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, and President of Section G (Economics) of ANZAAS. He wrote or co-wrote seven books, edited two collections of articles by various authors on the Australian economy, published six collections of his own essays, and produced more than a hundred articles, reports, book reviews and published lectures.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen-Thirties (1944) London: Oxford University Press
- The Australian Trading Banks (1957) Melbourne: Cheshire
- The Australian Economy: A Volume of Readings (ed. with W.M. Corden) (1963) Melbourne: Cheshire
- Taxation in Australia: Agenda for Reform (with R.I. Downing and others) (1964) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
- Some Factors in Economic Growth in Europe during the 1950s (official publication; co-author) (1964) Geneva: United Nations
- A Small Rich Industrial Country: Studies in Australian Development, Trade and Aid (1968) Melbourne: Cheshire
- Three times 18: an essay in political biography Quadrant, May-June 1969
- The Australian Economy: a Second Volume of Readings (ed. with A.H. Boxer) (1972) Melbourne: Cheshire
- Australia. OECD Economic Survey (official publication; co-author) (1973) Paris: OECD
- The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth. A Study in Contemporary Thought (1978) Melbourne: Longman Cheshire.
- The World Economic Crisis. A Commonwealth Perspective (co-author with A.K. Cairncross and others) (1980) London: Commonwealth Secretariat
- The Indonesian Economy – Collected Papers (1984) Singapore: Chopman Publications
- A Course Through Life: Memoirs of an Australian Economist (1985) Canberra: ANU
- Asian Diaries (1987) Singapore: Chopman Publications
- Economic Development: The History of an Idea (1987) Chicago: Chicago University Press
- Fifty Years of Development Studies (1993) Canberra: ANU
- Essays in International Economics, 1944-1994 (1996) London: Avery
- Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis (co-author with Hal Hill) (1999) St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin
- Essays in Biography: Australian Economists Supplement to History of Economics Review, No. 32, Summer 2000.
- The Importance of Money. Essays in Domestic Macroeconomics 1949-1999 (2001) Abingdon: Ashgate.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Arndt's Story: The life of an Australian economist Peter Coleman, Selwyn Cornish, Peter Drake, Bettina Arndt (2007) Asia Pacific Press ISBN 0731538102
