Dr William Coleman

• Economics

He has also interviewed several eminent economists, incuding Max Corden.

• Lecturer, ECHI2005 History of Economic Thought (P) (Sem 1)
• Lecturer, ECHI8011 Classic Works of Economic Theory (Sem 1)
• Lecturer, ECON3102 Macroeconomics 3 ()

In 2009 both Classic Works and History of Economic Thought will be taught in the FIRST semester.

Micro 2 is a CO-requisate, and NOT a PRE-requisate for enrollment in History of Economic Thought. Disregard any erroneous indication to the contrary. Enrollment in Micro 2 (not completion of Micro 2) is the bar for enrollment in HET.

Classic Works students should email me indicating the courses they are enrolled in for S1 2009. This shall assist in selecting the seminar time. I will briefy meet with Classic Works students at the close of the first ECHI2005 lecture (Monday 23 Feb 1.00pm, MCC  T6) to advance that selection.

Editor, Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/agenda.html

Columnist, Social Affairs Unit web site (http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/)

The Causes, Consequences and Compensations of Inflation: Three Problems in Monetary Theory (Edward Elgar) appeared in January 2007. 

• "Coleman offers an impressively clear, lively and intutive discussion of the the three most important issues in monetary economics. I  recommend it highly to all readers with an interest in those issues" -Peter Ireland, Journal  of Economic Literature (March 2008) now available.

 To learn more click on:

 http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=3906 .

Also:

'Inflation without a quantity of money: a simple Wicksellian model outlined'

http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/pdf/DP557.pdf ,

'"This Arbitrary Re-arrangement of Riches": an Alternative Theory of the Costliness of Inflation'

http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/pdf/DP553.pdf ,

'A Theory of the Supply of Inside Money'

http://www.ecocomm.anu.edu.au/research/papers/pdf/wp484.pdf

and,

'Why Investors Prefer Nominal Bonds: a Hypothesis'

http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/pdf/DP552.pdf

Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Life (coauthored with Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger) was published in April 2006. This book recounts the life-long intellectual camaraderie of four economists -L.F. Giblin, D.B. Copland, J.B. Brigden and Roland Wilson- who forged close links at Tasmania in the 1920s, prior to becoming key national figures in mid-century Australia.

“…, by any reckoning, a quite extraordinary book”, Dr Ken Henry, Secretary to the Australian Treasury 

In 2006 Giblin's Platoon won the Bruce McComish Prize for Economic History.

To read click on http://epress.anu.edu.au/gp_citation.html

Economics and Its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics (Palgrave, 2002)

• "Unique, intensive and extensive in its subject matter …this volume has every quality to become a classic." -C. J. Talele, Choice: Current Review of Academic Books
• "It should belong on the shelves of anyone interested in intellectual history, alongside the works of Isaiah Berlin" . -P.P.McGuinness , Quadrant
• "This is a brilliant book, conceived on a vast and daring scale, and argued with magisterial conviction". Dennis O’Keeffe, The University of Buckingham
• "… a crushingly learned volume on the history of economic thought. This should definitely earn him professional praise"- Professor Eric Jones, University of Melbourne"
• "I am reading it with great pleasure". Robert Lucas, The University of Chicago

Economics and Its Enemies won in 2003 an 'Outstanding Academic Title Award' from the American Libraries Association.

Recent Journal Publications:

• [with Rod Tyers],  'Beyond Brigden: Australia's  Inter-war manuafcturing tariffs, real wages and economic size', Economic Record,March 2008, 
• 'The Group Life as a Genre of the Life Writing of Economists', History of Political Economy, 39, 2007

•  'A Conversation with Max Corden', Economic Record 81, December 2006.

• 'Taking Out the Pins: Economics and Alive and Living in the History of Economic Thought', Economic Papers, 25(2), June 2005
• 'A Conversation with Murray Kemp', History of Economics Review 41, June 2005.
• 'Giblin’s Multiplier: Its Origin, Its Significance, Its Fate', History of Economics Review,39, June 2004.>
• 'Running Economics Down: Fact and Fantasy in the Presentation of Economists in the Media' Economic Papers 23(1) Mar 2004, 58-72  

Recent Web Columns for the Social Affairs Unit

• November 24, 2006Lucky Milton: William Coleman assesses the career of Milton Friedman
• April 04, 2007The Strange Death of NeoLiberalism: The Left like to think that neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of today - William Coleman argues that in fact neoliberalism is dead
• June 06, 2007 National Lampoon's Wealth of Nations: What will you learn about the Wealth of Nations by reading P. J. O'Rourke? You will learn more about Adam Smith the man than about his work, argues economist William Coleman
• October 12, 2006A Natural History of Civilisation: How the Scottish Enlightenment Reconciled our Biology with our Progress
• October 12, 2006 The Civilised Way of Death: Nature vs. Civilisation in the novels of Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and William Golding
• August 14, 2006William Coleman poses a challenge to popularisers of economics: The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
• July 12, 2006 Perverse Civilisation and Natural Barbarism: William Coleman explores two doubtful moves in social theorising and examines Malthus's debate with Godwin over population - and the subsequent Benthamite libelling of Malthus
• May 31, 2006 John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006): a great observer of economic life but a bad economic theorist
• May 04, 2006 Economic reform and France's intellectuals: William Coleman explains why the status of the French intelligentsia has made France incapable of economic reform and doomed French youth to unemployment
• April 10, 2006 364 economists and the 1981 budget: History has confounded both the 364 economists and their Monetarist opponents - this is an important lesson, argues William Coleman
• November 30, 2005 Does money make us happy? Generally no, but that does not mean that generating wealth is a mistake - Life, Liberty and the Right to Pursue Unhappiness
  October 06, 2005 Nobel Savages: Why those who argue that the Nobel Prize in Economics should be abolished are wrong
  September 02, 2005 Is Intellectual Property Theft?
  August 23, 2005 Heroes or Heroics? Neoconservatism, Capitalism, and Bourgeois Ethics
  June 17, 2005 Economics and Environmentalism - Are they in conflict?
  May 23, 2005 Harry Potter and the Declassed Gentleman: Why the Conservatives remain even more unpopular than Labour
  April 29, 2005 The Other September 11th: How anti-globalisation protestors married a Leftist, Statist outlook to Nationalism
  March 31, 2005 Why Marx was wrong about economists
  February 23, 2005 Right Anti-Economics: Will Slavery Set You Free?
  January 21, 2005 Anti-Economics: As Dangerous as the Guillotine?