Is Academic Economics Withering in Australia?

John Lodewijks and Tony Stokes

Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2014, vol. 21, issue 1, 69-90

Abstract: Departments of economics in Australia have not fared well recently. Many have been closed, merged or relocated, their staff made redundant while economics degrees and majors have been eliminated. This article tries to understand why academic economics appears to be withering in this country, or at least increasingly concentrated in Group of Eight (Go8) universities, and what if anything can still be done to preserve what is left.

Date: 2014
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