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Alex Hunter (economist)

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Alexander Hunter (23 December 1919 – 21 May 1971)[1] was a Scottish-Australian industrial economist. He arrived in Australia in 1958 after being appointed a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne.[2] He then gained prominence as the editor of The Economics of Australian Industry.[3] He became a professor of economics at the University of New South Wales in 1961, then moving to the Australian National University in 1965.[2] He was a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies.[3] He was married to Thelma Anna Carmela Cibelli and had three children. Hunter died of a coronary occlusion during a visit to Lae, Papua New Guinea, and was cremated.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Snooks 2006.
  2. ^ a b Corden 1971, p. 427.
  3. ^ a b BIES 1971, p. 95.

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  • "Alex Hunter 1919–71". Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 7 (2). Routledge: 95–96. July 1971. doi:10.1080/00074917112331331872.
  • Corden, W. M. (September 1971). "Alex Hunter: 1919–71". Economic Record. 47 (3). Economic Society of Australia: 427–432. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.1971.tb02651.x.
  • Snooks, G. D. (2006) [1996]. "Hunter, Alexander (1919–1971)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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