Alexander John Millmow is an Australian

economic historian Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of ...

, journalist, and author. Formerly an associate professor at

Federation University Australia Federation University Australia (FedUni) is a public university based in Victoria, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the School of Mines Ballarat, established in 1870 as the fourth tertiary institution in Australia, which evolved to f ...

, he is an honorary research fellow at

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and a adjunct associate professor at Federation, and is president of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. Millmow was an early advocate of increasing economics education in schools because of the decline in practical economic literacy in Australia. He also believes politicians in the 1970s and 1980s acted more boldly than politicians of the 2020s. He has cautioned the Albanese Government that its plans to make the

Reserve Bank of Australia The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority. It has had this role since 14 January 1960, when the ''Reserve Bank Act 1959'' removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank. Th ...

completely independent are undermining Australian Labor Party history.

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) *''A History of Australasian Economic Thought'' (Routledge, 2017) *''The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) He is co-editor of ''Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics'' (Routledge, 2016, with Jerry Courvisanos and James Doughney).Reviews of ''Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics'': *Salewa ‘Yinka Olawoye, ''American Review of Political Economy''

*Frank Stilwell, ''Journal of Australian Political Economy''

References

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