- Trevor Swan
Trevor W. Swan, 1918-1989 was an Australian economist. He is best known for his work on the neoclassical model of
economic growth , published simultaneously with that ofRobert Solow , for his work on integrating internal and external balance, represented by theSwan diagram and for pioneering work inmacroeconomic modelling , which predated that ofLawrence Klein , but remained unpublished until 1989.He is widely regarded as the greatest economic theorist that Australia has produced, and as one of the finest economists not to receive a Nobel Prize. [ [http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/nieb/ANUEconomists2.htm#7 Distinguished ANU Economists ] ]
Biography
Swan graduated from the University of Sydney in 1939, having studied part-time while working at the Rural Bank. He was employed in government service until 1950, and contributed to the
White Paper on Full Employment which set the framework for Australian macroeconomic policy in the postwar decades. In 1950, he was appointed as the first chair of economics created at theANU , remaining Professor of Economics until his retirement in 1983. He died in 1989.References
External links
* http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/simulation/simfileshome.html
* http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/nieb/ANUEconomists2.htm#7
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