Dear Shoe list members,


I am very sorry to hear about Peter’s loss. I vividly
remember the moment when all attendees of the 2011 HETSA 
conference turned to him and concentrated on listening
to him when he began to speak. I felt his greatness
and confirmed how much he was respected.

Numerous Jshet members, including previous Presidents
such as Professors Chuhei Sugiyama and Toshihiro Tanaka,
have a strong tie to Australian scholars. Peter is
the symbol of the tie.

May he rest in peace.

Best wishes,

Atsushi Komine
President, the Japanese Society for the History of
Economic Thought (Jshet)


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Atsushi Komine, Ph.D
Professor, Ryukoku University
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, 612-8577, JAPAN
Tel:+81-75-642-1111, Fax:+81-75-643-8510
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On Tue, 8 May 2018 12:00:21 +0000, Alexander Millmow wrote:
> Colleagues
> It was announced earlier today by Tony Aspromourgos  that Peter 
> Groenewegen, the doyen of  historians of economic thought in this 
> country and beyond, had died on the 4 May in Sydney, Australia. His 
> beloved wife, Eileen, had died the  day before after Peter had spent 
> the last five or so years caring for her. Consequently Peter had not 
> been to recent HET conferences because of Eileen's illness. He was 
> greatly missed at those gatherings here and abroad.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter  was an emeritus professor of economics at the University of 
> Sydney. He was one of the original six founders of the History of 
> Economic Thought Society of Australia established in 1981.
> Appropriately, he was made one of the  Distinguished Fellows of that 
> Society. In 2010  he was also a Distinguished fellow of the Economic 
> Society of Australia.  
> The citation for that latter award written by Tony Aspromourgos  
> appeared in the Economic Record 87( 277):335-41.
> A bibliography of his major works ranging from classical economics, 
> Alfred Marshall to his work on public finance is listed there.
>  An interview with Peter Groenewegen conducted by Brian Dollery  
> appeared in the  History of Economics  Review  in 2002.
> 
> 
>    Rest in Peace Peter Groenewegen 13/2/1939-4/5/2018
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Alex Millmow
> 
> Associate Professor in Economics
> Federation Business School
> and
> President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia