The power of economic ideas : the origins of macroeconomic management in Australia, 1929-39 / Alex Millmow.

Includes bibliographical references.

The triumph of the economists? -- Part I. Backing into the limelight: the interwar Australian economics profession. Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s -- The Australian economy during the Depression decade -- The interwar Australian economics profession -- Part II. Triumph and tribulation. The Premiers' Plan and the economists -- The agonistes of the economists, 1931-1932 -- The Australian recovery, 1933-1936 -- Part III. The march of Keynesian ideas. The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems -- Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state? -- The economics of near-war.