Nugget Coombs: A Reforming LifeCambridge University Press, 27/09/2005 - 446 páginas H. C. Coombs was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century. Born in 1906, he is best known as the governor of the Reserve Bank, but the breadth of his activities and his commitment to public life until his death is unsurpassed. Tim Rowse traces Coombs' life from his childhood in Western Australia to his many roles as policy maker, change agent, advocate and adviser. Particularly interested in Coombs as an economist, Tim Rowse shows that a key motif in his life as a public servant was to create an economic rationality among the political elite that was socially integrative and that looked beyond the strictures of economics to environmental sustainability, scientific and artistic creativity. This 2002 book covers Coombs' life from birth to death, providing intriguing insights into the life of one of Australia's most influential people. |
Índice
Childhood and youth | 12 |
Schooling | 16 |
Selfpossession | 19 |
Busselton | 21 |
Claremont | 23 |
Wheat Belt days | 28 |
Night student | 32 |
Finding the words | 35 |
Other peoples money | 199 |
Inflation and war | 200 |
Wageearners democracy | 202 |
Horror budget | 206 |
The Governor muted | 209 |
Stern mentor? | 214 |
Coombs as boss | 220 |
Carrots and sticks | 223 |
Representing | 37 |
Murdoch | 47 |
Liberalisms crisis | 51 |
LSE student | 52 |
Politics versus Economics | 55 |
The Money Power and its critics | 59 |
Poor Britain | 65 |
The experts we need | 71 |
A vacancy? | 72 |
The economists | 75 |
From peoples bank to central bank | 82 |
Sweden and Australia | 87 |
New orders | 91 |
Trusting the people | 92 |
Reconstruction and feminism | 99 |
Fighting for Yes | 105 |
Soldiers and workers | 108 |
Internationalist | 115 |
Labors new internationalism | 116 |
The diplomacy of security | 121 |
Success in London | 125 |
Global temptations | 129 |
Geneva | 132 |
Havana | 137 |
An official community | 140 |
Coombs the Keynesian | 144 |
From Labor to Liberal | 153 |
Chifleys family | 154 |
The commanding heights? | 161 |
The Cold War and CSIRO | 166 |
ViceChancellor? | 172 |
Reconstructing Papua New Guinea | 178 |
Governor and father | 181 |
Chifleys man? | 185 |
Menzies man? | 187 |
Corporate Elizabethan | 192 |
Women at the Bank | 227 |
A culture of inflation | 231 |
Separation | 234 |
A Melanesian way? | 237 |
Poor mans overdraft | 243 |
Frustrated internationalist | 248 |
Managing creativity | 253 |
Reasonable liberty | 254 |
Visualising Australia | 260 |
Nuclear matters | 264 |
Opera | 268 |
Ballet | 273 |
In search of an audience | 277 |
Redesigning Australia | 281 |
Labors second chance | 287 |
Retirement | 288 |
Whitlam conscripts Coombs | 290 |
Trade reform | 293 |
Two cultural constituencies | 296 |
Wages and taxes | 302 |
Rethink | 309 |
The stuffed owl of Minerva | 310 |
Nature and human nature | 318 |
Economies and communities | 324 |
Losing the master key | 329 |
The responsive public servant | 331 |
Elite outrider | 339 |
A Torres Strait agenda | 340 |
Conservation and Aborigines | 344 |
Bapa Dhumbul | 346 |
Conclusion | 353 |
Histories nostalgic and hopeful | 354 |
Notes | 363 |
References | 397 |
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AA ACT Aboriginal academic administration April argued arts asked August ballet Bank's Board Boyer Lectures Cabinet Canberra central bank Chair Chifley Chifley's Claremont Teachers College Commission Committee Commonwealth Bank conference Coombs to Whitlam Coombs told Copland CSIR currency Curtin DAFP December Dedman Department discussion economic economists Fadden February Florey full employment Giblin government's Governor Guild H. C. Coombs industry inflation institutions intellectual interest issue January June Keynes Lecture London March Melbourne Melville ment Menzies Minister monetary Nauze November October officers Oliphant opera organisations paper Perth Perth Modern School political Post-war Reconstruction private banks problem public servant public service Ralph Honner recalled Reserve Bank responsibility Rivett Schedvin School September Shann social staff suggested Sydney tariff teacher trade unions trading banks Trevor Swan Trust University wage West Australian Western Australia Whitlam women Yirrkala Yolngu