ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly surveys earlier efforts at documenting the history of Australasian economic thought. Prompted by the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, Groenewegen and McFarlane's A History of Australian Economic Thought (1990) remains, until now, the only attempt to cover the contribution to theory by twentieth-century Australian economists. A collaborative paper (2016) written by Geoffrey Brooke, Endres and Alan Rogers, which surveyed New Zealand economists' thought on her trade and economic development until 1984, is an excellent start to gauge that country's contribution to economic thought in the twentieth century. In selecting the most eminent twentieth-century economists from both Australia and New Zealand, the chapter can refer to Mark Blaug's Who's Who in Economics (1999) to disconcertingly discover that Australasian economists such as Max Corden, John Creedy or Peter C. B. Phillips are not listed under Australia or New Zealand simply because they were not born there.
