Alex Millmow

Alexander John Millmow is an Australian economic historian, journalist, and author. Formerly an associate professor at Federation University Australia,^[2] he is an honorary research fellow at Australian National University and a adjunct associate professor at Federation,^[3] and is president of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia.^[4]

Alex Millmow
Awards	2005 HETSA Award for Best PhD Dissertation [1]
Academic background
Alma mater	Australian National University
Thesis	The power of economic ideas : the origins of macroeconomic management in interwar Australia : 1929-1939 (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Selwyn Cornish
Influences	John Maynard Keynes Joan Robinson Colin Clark
Academic work
School or tradition	Keynesian economics
Institutions	Federation University Australia Australian National University Department of the Treasury
Doctoral students	C. J. Coventry
Main interests	Economic history
Notable works	The Power of Economic Ideas (2010)

Millmow was an early advocate of increasing economics education in schools because of the decline in practical economic literacy in Australia.^[5] He also believes politicians in the 1970s and 1980s acted more boldly than politicians of the 2020s.^[6] He has cautioned the Albanese Government that its plans to make the Reserve Bank of Australia completely independent are undermining Australian Labor Party history.^[7]

Books

Millmow is the author of books including:

• The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia 1929–39 (Australian National University E Press, 2010)^[8]
• A History of Australasian Economic Thought (Routledge, 2017)^[9]
• The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)^[10]

He is co-editor of Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics (Routledge, 2016, with Jerry Courvisanos and James Doughney).^[11]