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On 6 May 1938, he was appointed Government Statistician, Director of the Bureau of Industry, and Financial Advisor to the Queensland Treasury, and provided the State's first set of economic accounts in 1940. He also held the position of Deputy Director (Queensland) of the Commonwealth Department of
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about his decision to stay in Australia. As he put it, the chance to advise the Queensland Premier on 'practically everything connected with economic matters' was 'too remarkable an opportunity to be missed for putting economics into practice'
443:(1937). His first book was sent to the publisher Daniel Macmillan with a recommendation from John Maynard Keynes: " Clark is, I think, a bit of a genius: almost the only economic statistician I have ever met who seems to me quite first-class." 743:"The Measurement of National Wealth: Discussion", (with Milton Gilbert; J. R. N. Stone; Francois Perroux; D. K. Lieu; Evelpides; Francois Divisia; Tinbergen; Kuznets; Smithies; Shirras; MacGregor), 484:
War Organisation of Industry from 1942 to 1946. Clark resigned as Government Statistician on 28 February 1947 to become Under Secretary of the Queensland Department of Labour and Industry.
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Clark married Marjorie Tattersall in 1935; they had eight sons and one daughter, who in turn produced a total of 50 grandchildren. His son
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Unusually for a public servant he continued his academic work, publishing numerous articles on economics and preparing his book
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A building at the University of Queensland is named for him, and it is reputed that a stone grotesque in the university's
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Don Patinkin, "Keynes and Econometrics: On the Interaction between the Macroeconomic Revolutions of the Interwar Period"
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http://www.oesr.qld.gov.au/queensland-by-theme/society/bulletins/q150-stats-stories/gov-stats-qld/gov-stats-qld.pdf
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the first recipient of the Distinguished Fellow awards, presented by The Economic Society of Australia.
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became an author and academic in Japan. His nephew is the cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
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At Cambridge, he was a lecturer in statistics from 1931 to 1938. There he also completed three books:
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Clark's sector model of an economy undergoing technological change. In later stages, the
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Clark named his second son Nicholas Forgan in recognition of Smith's offer.
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Peters, G. "Colin Clark (1905–89) Economist and Agricultural Economist",
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The Myth of over Population and Why Population Growth Could Be Desirable
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He was on the Council of the Econometric Society from 1948 to 1952.
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http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/bnc_society/autumn07edition.pdf
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Distinguished Fellow Award, The Economic Society of Australia.
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Colin Clark was born in London in 1905 and was educated at the
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Extract of Clark's Chapter in Pioneers In Development
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The college retains a small collection of his papers
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In 1930 he was appointed a research assistant to the
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in 1962. Clark's wife Marjorie stands between them.
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(eds) 1984, Oxford: 779:, Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 1954), p. 101. 724:, Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 1945), pp. 97–113 717:, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 1949), pp. 93–124 572:was a stage actress and Hollywood movie star. 1198:Macromeasurement Before and After Colin Clark 310: 8: 1319:Corresponding fellows of the British Academy 759:"Russian Income and Production Statistics", 727:"Economic Development in Communist China", 689:has a Colin Clark Lecture at its meetings. 622:In 1987 Clark was together with Professor 317: 303: 177: 38: 855:, Vol. 96, No. 4 (1933), pp. 651–659 1289:Academics of the University of Cambridge 852:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 844:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 837:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 829:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 600:as one of the "pioneers of development" 970: 805:"Further Data on the National Income", 267: 241: 218: 187: 180: 1304:20th-century Australian mathematicians 1214:Colin Clark as a development economist 1149: 1138: 1104:, Working Paper Number 69, April 2001. 872:The Economic Position of Great Britain 777:The Review of Economics and Statistics 770:The Review of Economics and Statistics 762:The Review of Economics and Statistics 433:The Economic Position of Great Britain 1279:People educated at Winchester College 7: 1274:People educated at The Dragon School 923:Economics of Subsistence Agriculture 696:was also made in his likeness (G19). 526:In 1951 he took a secondment to the 1284:Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford 588:Cemetery in Brisbane (Section 3B). 1314:Fellows of the Econometric Society 1209:Australian Dictionary of Biography 1087:Australian Dictionary of Biography 782:"The New Board of Trade Indexes", 401:National Economic Advisory Council 25: 819:"National Income at Its Climax", 528:Food and Agriculture Organization 471:at the invitation of the premier 403:newly convened by Prime Minister 888:A Critique of Russian Statistics 730:The Journal of Political Economy 685:The Australasian Meeting of the 463:During a visit to Australia and 457:Quaternary sector of the economy 49: 1309:20th-century British economists 894:Conditions of Economic Progress 489:Conditions of Economic Progress 1269:British emigrants to Australia 929:Population Growth and Land Use 842:"Urban Population Densities", 756:, May 1941, NS 8, p. 212. 1: 736:"Theory of Economic Growth", 491:which was published in 1940. 1133:"A guide to the Great Court" 955:with Ian D. Carruthers, 1981 931:, 1967 (second edition 1977) 866:The National Income, 1924–31 644:Corresponding Fellow of the 596:In 1984 he was named by the 368:(1928–29) and then with Sir 959:Regional and Urban Location 953:The Economics of Irrigation 429:The National Income 1924–31 356:. He subsequently attended 1335: 1259:Australian public servants 911:Australian Hopes and Fears 882:National Income and Outlay 812:"The Value of the Pound", 768:"Afterthoughts on Paley", 475:. 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Colin Grant Clark
Colin W. Clark

Brisbane
Oxford University
Oxford University
Cambridge University
Monash University
University of Queensland
Sir Richard Stone
V.K.R.V. Rao
Sir Alexander Cairncross
Hans Singer
Economic sectors
Three-sector model
Primary sector
Secondary sector
Tertiary sector
Quaternary sector
Quinary sector
AGB Fisher
Colin Clark
Jean Fourastié
Business sector
Private sector
Public sector
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