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标题：The Australian Conference of Economists at 40: The State It’s In
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作者：Alex Millmow
期刊名称：Agenda
印刷版ISSN：1322-1833
电子版ISSN：1447-4735
出版年度：2011
卷号：18
期号：3
出版社：Australian National University
摘要：It was 1970. It was the Age of Aquarius. The Boeing 747 was introduced into intercontinental service. In Australia, the Federal Treasurer, Les Bury, began to notice that inflation and unemployment were rising simultaneously. And Australian students began studying economics using a localised adaptation of Samuelson's classic textbook.Something unusual, too, was stirring at the University of Melbourne. It was there that the first Conference of Australian and New Zealand Economists would take place. The Conference would arise from the feeling that the Australian economics profession 'had reached a state of development where a regular meeting was needed for technical discussion'.2Indeed, the new decade would see a remarkable flowering of the Australian economic talent. Names like Corden, Dixon, Groenewegen, Gregory, Gruen, Harcourt, Hogan, Kemp, Nevile, Pagan, Pincus, Porter and Snape would become famous. Each held a depth of loyalty to the Economic Society. They were also committed to the idea of an annual conference as a form of branding for the profession