Nugget Coombs

A Reforming Life

By: Tim Rowse

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Hardcover | 26 September 2002

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H. C. Coombs was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century. Born in 1906, he is best known as the governor of the central bank, but the breadth of his activities and his commitment to public life until his death is unsurpassed. Tim Rowse traces Coombs' life from his childhood in Western Australia to his many roles as policy maker, change agent, advocate and adviser. Particularly interested in Coombs as an economist, Tim Rowse shows that a key motif in his life as a public servant was to create an economic rationality among the political elite that was socially integrative and that looked beyond the strictures of economics to environmental sustainability, scientific and artistic creativity. This book covers Coombs' life from birth to death, providing intriguing insights into the life of one of Australia's most influential people.

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'This is a remarkable study both for the depth of the research, the intellectual range of the analysis, and the sheer force of the exposition. I recommend it wholeheartedly.' Stuart Macintyre 'This is an excellent account of an excellent Australian.' Professor Geoffrey Bolton

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Learning and Teaching: Childhood and youth
Schooling
Self-possession
Busselton
Claremont
Wheat belt days
Night student
Finding the words
Representing
Murdoch
Liberalism's Crisis: LSE student
Politics v. economics
The money power and its critics
Poor Britain
The Experts we Need: A vacancy?
The economists
From people's bank to central bank
Sweden and Australia
New Orders: Trusting the people
Reconstruction and feminism
Fighting for 'yes'
Soldiers and workers
Internationalist: Labor's new internationalism
The diplomacy of security
Success in London
Global temptations
Geneva
Havana
An official community
Coombs the Keynesian
From Labor to Liberal: Chifley's 'family'
The commanding heights?
The Cold War and CSIRO
Vice Chancellor?
Reconstructing Papua New Guinea
Governor and father
Chifley's man
Menzies' man?
Corporate Elizabethan
Other People's Money: Inflation and war
Wage earners' democracy
Horror budget
The Governor muted
Stern mentor?
Coombs as boss
Carrots and sticks
Women at the bank
A culture of inflation
Separation
A Melanesian way?
Poor man's overdraft
Frustrated internationalist
Managing Creativity: Reasonable liberty
Visualising Australia
Nuclear matters
Opera
Ballet
In search of an audience
Re-designing Australia
Labor's second chance: Retirement
Whitlam conscripts Coombs
Trade reform
Two cultural constituencies
Wages and taxes
Rethink: The stuffed owl of Minerva
Nature and human nature
Economies and communities
Losing the master key
The responsive public servant
Elite outrider: Torres Strait
Conservation and Aborigines
Bapa Dhumbul
Conclusion: Histories nostalgic and hopeful
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