Sydney James Butlin

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Sydney James Christopher Lyon "Syd" Butlin (born October 20, 1910 in Eastwood , New South Wales , Australia , † December 14, 1977 in Sydney ) was an Australian economist and historian .

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Sydney James Butlin was the second of six children of the fruit farmer Thomas Lyon Butlin and his wife Sara Mary nee. Chantler born. He attended school in Singleton and from 1923 to 1927, the High School in East Maitland . In 1926 his father was killed by a driver, so that Thomas became the head of the family. From 1928 he studied economics with Richard Charles Mills at the University of Sydney and graduated in 1932 with a Bachelor of Economics .

On a scholarship, he went to Trinity College , Cambridge and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1934. Due to the influence of Dennis Holme Robertson , he was particularly concerned with Keynesianism . He then returned to Sydney, worked in a government statistics bureau and in 1935 became an assistant lecturer at the University of Sydney. In 1936 he married his former fellow student Dorothy Jean Conen. In 1939 he made a Master of Arts in Cambridge and was a lecturer at the University of Sydney.

During the Second World War , Sydney James Butlin was employed in the civil service, including from 1941 to 1943 as director of the economic department in the Department of War Organization of Industry. In evaluating the experiences of these activities, he wrote the parts War economy. 1939–1942 and with Carl Boris Schedvin War economy. 1942-1945 edited by Gavin Long collection Australia in the war of 1939-1945.

In 1946 he was appointed to the chair of economics at the University of Sydney to succeed Richard Charles Mills and he became dean of the department of economics. In 1954, as a result of his research over the past ten years, he published the work Foundations of the Australian monetary system. 1788-1851, for which he was awarded the Doctor of Letters in 1954 by the University of Cambridge. In 1961 a book was published in London on the history of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group . In 1962 he co-founded Sydney University Press and was its vice-chairman until 1977. In 1971 he accepted a call to a personal chair at the Australian National University in Canberra .

He spent the last years of his life completing previous and preparing new work, for example on the history of central banking in Australia after 1945 and the Australian financial system after 1851. He died after a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on December 14, 1977 in the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney .

His daughter Judith Butlin edited some of his texts after the death of Sydney James Butlin. His younger brother Noel George Butlin (1921-1991) was also an economist and historian.

Functions

  • 1953–1954: President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • 1954–1955, 1958–1961: Chairman of the Appointments Committee, University of Sydney
  • 1958–1962: President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • 1963–1967: Member of the Senate, University of Sydney

Fonts

  • with Thomas Kingston Critchley , Robert Barrie McMillan, Arthur Harold Tange: Australia foots the bill. War finance 1939-41. Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1941.
  • Foundations of the Australian monetary system. 1788-1851. Melbourne University Press, Carlton 1953. Reprint: Sidney University Press, Sydney / Melbourne 1968.
  • Parts of series 4 of: Gavin Long (Ed.): Australia in the war of 1939-1945.
    Was economy. 1939-1942. Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1955. New edition 1961.
    with Carl Boris Schedvin: War economy. 1942-1945. Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1977, ISBN 0-642-99406-4 .
  • Australia and New Zealand Bank. The Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia Limited. 1828-1951. Longmans, London 1961.
  • with Alan Ross Hall, Ronald Charles White: Australian banking and monetary statistics. 1817-1945. Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney 1971.
  • Judith Butlin (Ed.): The Australian monetary system. 1851-1914. 1983, ISBN 1-86252-307-X .

literature

  • Judith Butlin: Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin. In: John E. King (Ed.): A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists. Elgar, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-84542-869-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report 2000 of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (PDF; 586 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Butlin, Sydney James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butlin, Sydney James Christopher Lyon (full name); Butlin, Syd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Eastwood , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1977
Place of death Sydney