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Author Harper, Marjorie, author

Title Douglas Copland : scholar, economist, diplomat / Marjorie Harper
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2013
Carlton, Victoria : The Miegunyah Press, 2013
©2013

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Description viii, 548 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary 'In Australia the name Copland is one to be conjured with.' The Canadian ambassador to China was addressing the diplomatic corps gathered to farewell Professor Douglas Copland, Australia's second Minister to China. It was early 1948, and Copland was leaving China to become founding Vice-Chancellor of the new Australian National University in Canberra. The compliment was a reference to Copland's outstanding career in Australia as an academic, applied economist, administrator and public intellectual. His academic writings were numerous and timely, his newspaper articles were widely syndicated and he was constantly in demand as a public speaker and broadcaster. His name is perpetuated by a lecture theatre at the University of Melbourne, a building at ANU, a secondary college in the Canberra suburb of Melba and by a series of lectures sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia
Analysis Academics
Anecdotes
Australian
Australian National University
Australian diplomats
Biography
Canada
China
Committee for the Economic Development of Australia
Economic conditions
Economists
Former Members
History
International relations
Policy process
Political conditions
University of Melbourne
Vice-Chancellors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-516) and index
Subject Copland, D. B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971.
Academics -- Australia -- Biography
College teachers -- Australia -- Biography.
Diplomats -- Australia -- Biography.
Economists -- Australia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2013487267
ISBN 9780522862843 (hardback)