Interview with Emeritus Professor H.M. (Ted) Kolsen

Bruce Littleboy

No 623, Discussion Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: TThis interview is a partial biography of Ted Kolsen, who migrated to Australia after the Second World War. It is an oral history of an orphan boy sent to England to escape the Nazis. It touches on his time in a Barnado orphanage, his military service in post-War Germany, his work in Australia training as toolmaker, his undergraduate study, his time at the LSE doing a PhD, his work on transport economics, his ascent to a Chair at the University of Queensland, and his appointment onto the Interstate Commission to report to the Commonwealth government on transport policy. The interview illuminates both post-war social history and how economists strive to apply theory to complex practical problems.

JEL-codes: A11 H70 N77 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-22
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