Associate Professor William Coleman | Research School of Economics

RSE

Research School of Economics

Position

Associate Professor

william.coleman@anu.edu.au

Phone number

+61 2 612 52226

Office

Room 1021, HW Arndt Bld (25A)

Research areas

Economic history; Economics; Public choice; Political economy; History of economic thought.

Biography

William Coleman is a Reader of Economics. William has written extensively upon inflation, the history of economic thought and the contested position of economics in society. He serves as editor of Agenda: a Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, and has authored, or co-authored, several seminal economics books, including Giblin’s Platoon: The Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Public Life, and is editor of Only in Australia: The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism.

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Research publications

Only in Australia: The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism (ed.)OUP 2016
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/only-in-australia-9780198753254?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Next%203%20months&lang=en&cc=au
The Inadequacy of Friedman and Savage’s Critique of Diminishing Marginal Utility (CEPR Discussion Paper Series - November 2012)
A Young Tree Dead? The Story of Economics in Australia and New Zealand (CEPR Discussion Paper Series - December 2013)
Pipe Dreams and Tunnel Visions: Economists and Australian Population Debates before the Baby Boom (CEH Working Paper Series - March 2012)
Making a land fit for a gold standard: monetary policy in Australia 1920-1925 (March 2014)
Beyond Brigden: Australia's Pre-War Manufacturing Tariffs, Real Wages, and Economic Size (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - June 2005)
Popular Despotism: An Economist's Explanation (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - June 2012)
The Strange Birth of Neoliberalism (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - March 2012)
Can We Rule Out Speculative Hyperinflations in Maximising Models? Yes, We Can. (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - January 2008)
How Inside Money Makes Inflation Costly For Most (but Gainful For Some) (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - January 2008)
A Theory of the Supply of Inside Money (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - September 2007)
The Neoliberal and the Powerlessness of Ideas (Working Paper Series in Economics and Econometrics - July 2012)

Research engagement and outreach

Editor, Agenda: a Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform

Teaching

ECON 2091/ 8091 The Economy, Politics and the State

ECON 8026 Diploma Macro Politics