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Arndt's Story: The Life of an Australian Economist
Author(s): Peter Coleman (Author), Selwyn Cornish (Author), Peter Drake (Author), Bettina Arndt (Author)
- Publisher: ANU E Press
- Publication Date: April 18, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 0731538102
- ISBN-13: 9780731538102
Book Description
H.W. Arndt has been Australias leading scholar of Asian economic development for over thirty years – Former World Bank President James D Wolfensohn. The year of Heinz Wolfgang Arndts birth, 1915, was not a good time for a German boy to be born. His country was soon to be defeated in a great war, his school years were shadowed by the rise of Hitler. Yet when Heinzs long-buried Jewish background led his academic father to lose his chair in chemistry and flee to Oxford, Heinz followed. As Heinz put it, the calamity of Hitlers rise to power led him to the incredible good fortune of an Oxford education and a life spent in England and Australia. This was a man of inexhaustible energy and optimism, who returned from months behind barbed wire interned in Canada to write a historical classicThe Economic Lessons of the Nineteen-Thirties. He seized the opportunity of an unexpected job offer to set off with his young family for Sydney where he
