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