Richard Downing: Economics, advocacy and social reform in Australia
MUP, 346 pp, $49.95 hb
Biography
A legacy of reform
by Morag Fraser •
‘Dick Downing had a keen sense of what would make Australia a better country – for a strongly welfare minded economist – the knack of being in the right place at the right time.’ Thus Nicholas Brown, in his subtle and intelligent account of one of the shapers of Australia in the twentieth century.
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