Ideas
Economic Ideas
What is driving our leaders when they make critical decisions about the economy? The Sum of Power is an exploration of the influence of economic ideas upon our leaders.
Year: 2012
Events
Boris Schedvin
Image: State Library of New South Wales 1930s Depression expert Boris Schedvin on the retail financial crisis of the period.
Economics
L.F. Giblin – politician to expert
Co-Author of Giblin’s Platoon William Coleman reflects on the impact on Giblin’s career of WW1 and how Giblin politician re-emerges as Giblin the expert.
Economics
The power of myth
The Myth of the Great Depression author David Potts talks of Myth as a shaper of historical viewpoint
Economics
Keynes and the power of ideas
The shifting frame of ideas Politics Professor James Walter gives Keynes as an example of how the accepted frame of ideas can change, the once unorthodox can become the new status quo.
Economics
The Money Power
Peter Love describers the populist theory about finance capital as it lambasts bankers and financial institutions greedily robbing the public purse. […]
Australia
Alex Millmow on leading economists of the 1930s
Millmow on the fascination of the 1930s and the rise of the professional economist led by Douglas Copland and L.F.Giblin
Australia
Alex Millmow
Millmow talks of his work but this time with the legendary economist L.F.Giblin looming in the background
Economists
Keynes and Australia
John Maynard Keynes’ connection to Australia and to Australian economists. […]
Historical frames
Author What Were They Thinking: The Politics of Ideas in Australia Professor James Walter discusses the framework of ideas operative at a given time. Walter was interviewed by Garry Sturgess for his Australian National University […]