Alex Millmow
Australian historian
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Alexander John Millmow is an Australian economic historian, journalist, and author. Formerly an associate professor at Federation University Australia,[2] he is an honorary research fellow at Australian National University and a adjunct associate professor at Federation,[3] and is president of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia.[4]
Alex Millmow | |
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| Awards | 2005 HETSA Award for Best PhD Dissertation [1] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Thesis | The power of economic ideas : the origins of macroeconomic management in interwar Australia : 1929-1939 (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Selwyn Cornish |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes Joan Robinson Colin Clark |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | Federation University Australia Australian National University Department of the Treasury |
| Doctoral students | C. J. Coventry |
| Main interests | Economic history |
| Notable works |
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Millmow was an early advocate of increasing economics education in schools because of the decline in practical economic literacy in Australia.[5] He also believes politicians in the 1970s and 1980s acted more boldly than politicians of the 2020s.[6] He has cautioned the Albanese Government that its plans to make the Reserve Bank of Australia completely independent are undermining Australian Labor Party history.[7]
Books
Millmow is the author of books including:
- The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929–39 (Australian National University E Press, 2010)[8]
- A History of Australasian Economic Thought (Routledge, 2017)[9]
- The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)[10]
He is co-editor of Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics (Routledge, 2016, with Jerry Courvisanos and James Doughney).[11]