Peter D. Groenewegen

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Peter Diderik Groenewegen (born February 13, 1939 in Kerkrade , Netherlands ; † May 4, 2018 in Sydney , Australia ) was an Australian economist of Dutch origin.

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Peter D. Groenewegen emigrated to Australia with his family in 1952. From 1957 he studied economics at the University of Sydney . He studied the work of Joseph Schumpeter and Michał Kalecki and attended lectures on the history of economic thought, the economy of socialism from Bruce J. McFarlane , the criticism of capitalism from Edward Lawrence Wheelwright and marginalism from Sydney James Butlin .

In 1961 he gave his first lectures on Anne Robert Jacques Turgot at the economics faculty , and in 1963 he obtained his master’s degree . From 1963 to 1965 he worked at Bernard Corry at the London School of Economics on his dissertation and was with the work The History of the Theories of Value, Production and Distribution from 1650 to 1776 for Ph.D. PhD . The test was "very strict and long". The chairman of the commission was Ronald L. Meek , who had come to London from Leicester for it.

In 1965 Peter D. Groenewegen returned to Sydney and became a lecturer at the University of Sydney. In 1980 he was appointed to a chair. In 1989 he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the History of Economic Thought at the University of Sydney. In 2002 he retired .

As a student he was a member of the Australian Labor Party , but resigned in 1966 because of the party's stance on Australia's participation in the Vietnam War .

Peter D. Groenewegen was a member and later became an honorary member of the editorial board of the journal History of Economic Ideas .

Fonts

  • Public finance in Australia. Theory and Practice. Prentice-Hall, Sydney 1979, ISBN 0-7248-1013-7 .
  • Radical Economics. In: Fred Henry George Gruen (Ed.): Surveys of Australian Economics. Volume 2: Income distribution and poverty urban Economics of education radical economics australian economics 1968–1978. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1979, ISBN 0-86861-137-9 , pp. 172-223.
  • History and Political Economy. Smith, Marx and Marshall. In: Australian Economic Papers. 21, 38, 1982, ISSN  0004-900X , pp. 1-17.
  • Problems and prospects of public sector growth in Australia. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1982, ISBN 0-86784-144-3 .
  • Tax Assignment and Revenue Sharing in Australia. In: Charles E. McLure Jr. (Ed.): Tax Assignment in Federal Countries. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1983, ISBN 0-86784-344-6 , pp. 293-316.
  • In Defense of Post-Keynesian Economics. In: Newcastle Lecture on Political Economy. The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, 1986, ISSN  0812-1664 ( Occasional paper. 131).
  • Turgot. 1727-1781. In: John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman (Eds.): The New Palgrave. A Dictionary of Economics. Volume 4: Q-Z. Macmillan, London 1987, ISBN 0-230-27980-5 , pp. 707-712.
  • Rehabilitating the Classical Notions of Productive and Unproductive Labor with Special Reference to Their Relevance to Taxation. In: Geoffrey H. Brennan, Bhajan S. Grewal, Peter D. Groenewegen (Eds.): Taxation and Fiscal Federalism. Essays in the Honor of Russell Mathews . Australian National University Press, Canberra 1988, ISBN 0-08-034401-1 , pp. 83-102.
  • with Bruce J. McFarlane : A History of Australian Economics Thought. Routledge, London 1990, ISBN 0-415-02123-5 .
  • The National Farmers Federation tax reform proposals. An evaluation. Australian Tax Research Foundation, Sydney 1990, ISBN 0-949482-31-5 .
  • About Turgot's "Réflexions". Attached to: Claude Jessua: The economist Jacques Turgot. A modern appreciation. Economy and finance, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-87881-052-0 .
  • A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall (1842–1924). Elgar, Adlershot 1995, ISBN 1-85898-151-4 .
  • Boisguilbert and 18th Century Economics. Attached to: Gilbert Faccarello: Read Boisguilbert. Economy and finance, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87881-104-7 .
  • Maffeo Pantaleoni . In: Ferdinando Meacci (Ed.): Italian economists of the 20th century. Elgar, Cheltenham / Northampton 1998, ISBN 1-85278-886-0 , pp. 44-68.
  • The meaning of the "rurale philosophy" as a physiocratic text. Economy and finance, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-87881-175-6 .
  • Eighteenth Century Economics. Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-27940-2 .

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literature

  • Philip Arestis , Malcolm C. Sawyer: A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. Elgar, Cheltenham 2001, ISBN 1-84376-139-4 , pp. 269-272 ( Google books ).
  • Tony Aspromourgos, John Kees Lodewijks (Eds.): History and Political Economy. Essays in Honor of PD Groenewegen. Routledge, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-32762-8 ( Review by Craig Freedman on journals.cambridge.org).
  • Brian Dollery: A Conversation with Peter Groenewegen. In: History of Economics Review. 1, 36, 2002 (= Working Paper Series in Economics. ISSN  1442-2980 ) ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tony Aspromourgos: Obituary - Peter Diderik Groenewegen. In: Royal Economic Society Newsletter. No. 182, July 2018, p. 25, accessed on November 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Peter Groenewegen on historyofeconomicideas.com
personal data
SURNAME Groenewegen, Peter D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groenewegen, Peter Diderik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian economist of Dutch descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerkrade , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 2018
Place of death Sydney , Australia