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A quarter of a century of Australian agricultural economics — some personal reflections[Note 1. Paper given at the twenty‐eighth Annual Conference of the ...]
Author(s) -
Gruen Fred
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australian journal of agricultural and resource economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-8489
pISSN - 1364-985X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8489.00043
Subject(s) - curiosity , theme (computing) , agriculture , perspective (graphical) , quarter (canadian coin) , political science , public policy , sociology , social science , history , law , art , psychology , archaeology , social psychology , computer science , visual arts , operating system
The late Fred Gruen (1921–1997) was asked to write these previously unpublished reflections for the twenty‐eighth Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society in 1984; they were circulated in working paper format as Gruen (1986). In this paper, Fred, who made the transition from agricultural to general economics later in his career, offers a modest perspective on his contributions to agricultural analysis and policy. The unifying theme in this outstandingly productive life was his focus on public policy issues whose resolution would impact importantly on the lives of many — that is, his intellectual curiosity was driven ultimately by his philanthropy.