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The Tarmac Economist

In: The Gypsy Economist

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  • Alex Millmow

    (Federation University)

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This chapter looks at Colin Clark as one of the first international consulting economists in what became the new field of development economics. He continued to refute neo-Malthusian beliefs that had captivated post-war British and American minds noting how agricultural productivity was rising annually due to modern methods of cultivation and greater than the increase in global population. The shortage of food was due to a lack of labour, not land. He accused agriculturally bountiful countries, such as Australia and Argentina of needlessly starving their agrarian sectors of resources by engaging in ill-advised industrialisation policies which contributed to a worldwide shortage of food. Clark resigned from the Queensland Government in 1952 because it did not share his views on decentralisation and the promotion of primary industry. In Australia he became a voice in the wilderness as he publicly lamented the over-development of manufacturing, fiscal federalism and the imposition quantitative import controls in 1952. Oxford came to his salvation in the same year.

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  • Alex Millmow, 2021. "The Tarmac Economist," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: The Gypsy Economist, chapter 0, pages 187-207, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-981-33-6946-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6946-7_11
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