Challenging the Orthodoxy Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contributi
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes. One leading Australian political economist
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Challenging the Orthodoxy Reflections on Frank Stilwell‘s Contribution to Political Economy
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Susan K. Schroeder · Lynne Chester Editors
Challenging the Orthodoxy Reflections on Frank Stilwell’s Contribution to Political Economy
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Editors Susan K. Schroeder Lynne Chester Department of Political Economy University of Sydney Sydney, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-3-642-36120-3 ISBN 978-3-642-36121-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36121-0 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To heterodox economists everywhere in unity and in spirit
Foreword
To write the Foreword to the volume that arose from the conference to mark Frank Stilwell’s “retirement” from the Chair of Political Economy and to celebrate his outstanding, wide-ranging contributions over 40 years is a privilege and pleasure in equal measure. Frank’s work is usually on or ahead of the frontier but he is also an oldfashioned—this is a compliment—university academic and citizen with ideals and practices all too rare these days. He was/is an enthusiastic, devoted teacher who demands high standards but supports and befriends his students, regar
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