Australian economists

The list Australian economists includes Yanis Varoufakis, Alexander Downer, Geoff Raby, Murray Milgate and Martin Ravallion. The list consists of 179 members and 3 sublists.

20th-century Australian economists
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21st-century Australian economists
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Australian women economists
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Yanis Varoufakis

Greek economist and politician

Overview: Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic, philosopher and politician. He has been ...

Date of birth: 24 March 1961

Age: 64

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Male

Partner: Danai Stratou (Married)

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Greek Marxist writers 2T

People from Palaio Faliro 2T

Politicians from Athens 162T
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Alexander Downer

Australian politician

Overview: Alexander John Gosse Downer (born 9 September 1951) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007 ...

Date of birth: 9 September 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Leaders of the Opposition (Australia) 37T

Australian officials of the United Nations 29T

Former government ministers of Australia 160T
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Graeme Snooks

Australian economist

Overview: Graeme Donald Snooks (born 1944 in Perth, Western Australia) is a systems theorist and stratologist who has developed a general dynamic theory to explain complex living systems. His resulting "dynamic ...

Date of birth: 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Scientist

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Non-Darwinian evolution 51T

Big History 12T

People educated at Mount Lawley Senior High School 15T
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Alfred Winslow Jones

American investor, hedge fund manager and sociologist

Overview: Alfred Winslow Jones (9 September 1900 – 2 June 1989) was an Australian investor, hedge fund manager, and sociologist. He is credited with forming the first modern hedge fund and is widely regarded as ...

Date of birth: 9 September 1900

Date of death: 2 June 1989

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Manager

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People from Redding, Connecticut 47T

American hedge fund managers 182T

20th-century American businesspeople 6,643T
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Peter Costello

Australian politician

Overview: Peter Howard Costello, AC (born 14 August 1957), is a former Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian Howard Government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Converts to Anglicanism from Baptist denominations 10T

Australian officials of the United Nations 28T

Former government ministers of Australia 160T
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Matt Canavan

Australian politician

Overview: Matthew James Canavan (born 17 December 1980) is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland at the 2013 federal election for the term beginning ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Australian conspiracy theorists 32T

Morrison government 60T

21st-century Australian politicians 2,309T
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Michael Keane (economist)

American/Australian economist (born 1961)

Overview: Michael Patrick Keane (born 1961) is an American/Australian economist who is currently professor of economics and Australian Research Council laureate fellow at the University of New South Wales. From ...

Date of birth: 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni 261T

Economists from Arizona 14T

21st-century American economists 947T
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Judith Sloan

Australian economist, business journalist

Overview: Judith Sloan (born 22 November 1954) is an Australian economist.

Date of birth: 22 November 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Female

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Australian women economists 19T

Women business and financial journalists 43T

University of Melbourne women 193T
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Craig James (economist)

Australian economist

Overview: Craig James (born 2 March 1962) is an economist currently working as chief economist for Commsec. As of September 2012, according to The Australian, James was the third most quoted man in Australian media ...

Date of birth: 2 March 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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CBA people 6T

Curtin University faculty 26T

University of New South Wales alumni 400T
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Geoff Raby

Economist

Overview: Geoffrey William "Geoff" Raby AO (born September 1953 in Melbourne) is an Australian economist and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 2007 ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Permanent Representatives of Australia to the World Trade Organization 2T

Ambassadors of Australia for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 4T

Ambassadors of Australia to Mongolia 5T
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Bill Mitchell (economics)

Economist

Overview: William Francis Mitchell (born 7 March 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and one of the founding developers of Modern Monetary Theory.

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Modern monetary theory scholars 7T

Post-Keynesian economists 51T

Macroeconomics 8T
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Kym Anderson

Australian economist

Overview: Kym Anderson AC (born 26 February 1950 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist, specialising in trade policy and issues related to the World Trade Organization. He studied at the University of New England ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Fellows of the Australian Institute of Company Directors 60T

University of New England (Australia) alumni 77T

Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 179T
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Jock R. Anderson

Agricultural economist

Overview: Jock Robert Anderson (born 23 January 1941) is an Australian agricultural economist, specialising in agricultural development economics, risk and decision theory, and international rural development policy ...

Date of birth: 23 January 1941

Age: 84

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Australian officials of the United Nations 28T

University of New England (Australia) faculty 38T

University of New England (Australia) alumni 77T
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Murray Milgate

Australian economist

Overview: Murray Milgate (born 1950), is an Australian-born academic economist and Sometime Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Queens' College in the University of Cambridge, where he is now a Life ...

Date of birth: 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 150T

Queens' College, Cambridge 9T

Alumni of the University of Cambridge 2,910T
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Martin Ravallion

Australian economist

Overview: Martin Ravallion (19 March 1952 – 24 December 2022) was an Australian economist. He was the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and had previously had been director ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1952

Date of death: 24 December 2022

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Center for Global Development 27T

Australian economics writers 6T

World Bank people 138T
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Tom Piotrowski (economist)

Australian economist

Overview: Tom Piotrowski (born 1967) is an Australian economist working for financial services company CommSec as a market analyst.

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Economist

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Year of birth uncertain 4,715T

Australian television personalities 310T

Internet memes 647T
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Peter Drysdale

Australian economist

Overview: Peter David Drysdale AO (born 24 October 1938, in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and writer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in the Crawford School of ...

Date of birth: 24 October 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

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Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class 104T

Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 179T

People from Grafton, New South Wales 36T
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Mike Nahan

Australian politician

Overview: Michael Dennis Nahan (born 2 July 1950) is an American-born Australian politician, serving as Western Australian Liberal leader and Leader of the Opposition from the 2017 state election until his resi ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

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Energy Ministers of Western Australia 3T

21st-century Australian politicians 2,052T

Politicians from Ann Arbor, Michigan 43T
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Hieu Van Le

Governor of South Australia

Overview: Hieu Van Le, AC (Vietnamese: Lê Văn Hiếu; born 1 January 1954) is the 35th and current Governor of South Australia, in office since 1 September 2014. He served as the state's lieutenant-governor from 2007 ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Lieutenant-Governors of South Australia 7T

Government of South Australia 8T

People from Quảng Trị Province 13T
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Justin Wolfers

Economist

Overview: Justin James Michael Wolfers, born in 1972, is an Australian economist and public policy scholar. He is professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the Un ...

Date of birth: 11 December 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Economist

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21st-century economists 372T

People educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School 27T

Australian emigrants to the United States 237T