Noel George Butlin

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Noel George Butlin AC (born December 19, 1921 in Singleton , New South Wales , Australia , † April 2, 1991 in Canberra ) was an Australian economist and historian .

Live and act

Noel George Butlin was the youngest of six children of Thomas Lyon Butlin and his wife Sara Mary nee. Chantler and a brother of Sydney James Butlin , who in 1926 after the accidental death of his father became the head of the family and thus also responsible for the education and career planning of Noel George Butlin. He visited the High School in East Maitland and attained 1942 at the University of Sydney the Bachelor of Economics . After working for the Ministry of Labor, he became assistant to the Australian High Commissioner Frank Lidgett McDougall in 1943, first in London and then in the Australian legation in Washington, DC in preparation for the World Food Conference in 1945.

In 1946 he became a lecturer in economic history at the University of Sydney. In the same year he married the social worker Lilias Joan Lindsay. In 1949 he went to Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts on a grant from the Australian National University and the Rockefeller Foundation , and worked on a comparative study of the Canadian and Australian railways. In 1951 he became a Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Australian National University and in 1954 a Reader in Economic History. He broadened his research profile and published several papers on national accounts , Australia's domestic product , overseas borrowing and investment in Australian economic development. These publications formed the basis of the Archives of Business and Labor at the Australian National University, which was renamed the Noel Butlin Archives Center in 1992 .

In 1961 he conducted research at the University of Cambridge ; In 1962 he was appointed professor of economic history at the Australian National University . From 1967 to 1968 he stayed at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut, and as a result published a paper on pre-war slavery. In 1971 he published the work The Cost of collisions with Patrick N. Troy on the social and economic consequences of traffic accidents, which may have been motivated by the death of his father.

In 1974 he became director of the Botany Bay Project , a five-year environmental study, but resigned that same year because of problems with government agencies in Australia and New South Wales. From 1979 to 1980 he was Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. In 1983 he published Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia 1788-1850 , in which he estimated the population of the Aborigines at the time of European settlement three to four times higher than in generally accepted estimates. In 1986 he retired .

Noel George Butlin died on April 2, 1991 at the Royal Canberra Hospital after suffering from cancer. He left behind his wife Lilias Joan, a daughter and two sons. His last work, which he was still working on in the hospital, was published posthumously . Since 2004, the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand has held annual "Noel Butlin Lectures" in his honor.

Memberships and honors

Fonts

  • Finding list of Canadian railway companies before 1915. Association of American Railroads, Washington 1953.
  • Australian domestic product, investment and foreign borrowing 1861–1938 / 39. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1962.
  • Investment in Australian economic development, 1861-1900. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1964.
  • Business records at the Australian National University. Australian National University, Canberra 1966.
  • Ante-bellum slavery. A critique of a debate. Australian National University, Canberra 1971, ISBN 0-909898-00-6 .
  • with Patrick N. Troy: The Cost of collisions. Cheshire, Melbourne 1971, ISBN 0-70151339-X .
  • (Ed.): Factory waste potential in Sydney. Canberra 1977, ISBN 0-7081-1047-9 .
  • with William Angus Sinclair: Australian gross domestic product, 1788–1860. Estimates, sources, and methods. Australian National University, Canberra 1984, ISBN 0-86784-360-8 .
  • Close encounters of the worst kind. Modeling aboriginal depopulation and resource competition, 1788-1850. Australian National University, Canberra 1982, ISBN 0-86784-087-0 .
  • with Jules Ginswick, P. Statham: Colonial statistics before 1850. Australian National University, Canberra 1982, ISBN 0-86784-826-X .
  • with Alan Barnard , Jonathan J. Pincus: Government and Capitalism: Private and Public Choice in Twentieth Century Australia. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1982, ISBN 0-86861-187-5 .
  • Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia 1788–1850. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1983, ISBN 0-86861-223-5 .
  • Bicentennial perspective of Australian economic growth. University of Adelaide, Adelaide 1986, ISBN 0-9589994481-4 .
  • Economics and the dreamtime. A hypothetical history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-43236-7 .
  • Forming a colonial economy, Australia 1810-1850. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-44006-8 .

literature

  • Graeme D. Snooks: "In the beginning is my end". The Life and Work of Noel George Butlin, 1921-1991. In: Australian Economic History Review. 31, 2, 1991, pp. 3-27.
  • Barry Howarth, Ewan Maidment (Ed.): Light from the Tunnel. Collecting the Archives of Australian Business and Labor at the Australian National University. Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Center, Canberra 2004, ISBN 0-646-43824-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Noel Butlin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on assa.edu.au @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.assa.edu.au
  2. ↑ Butlin, Noel George on itsanhonour.gov.au
personal data
SURNAME Butlin, Noel George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Singleton , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1991
Place of death Canberra