Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2010: Peter Groenewegen

Abstract

This article provides a concise account of the intellectual achievements, and wider research and service contributions, of Peter Groenewegen, the Economic Society of Australia’s Distinguished Fellow for 2010. His work on the formation of classical economics and on Marshall are the two most salient features of Groenewegen’s long devotion to the history of economics, but there are very extensive further contributions noted as well. Also included is a detailed, of Groenewegen’s record of publication in the history of economics, together with a guide to further, more extensive accounts of his research and career.

News and Notices

“…As well as being a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, Peter was honoured during his life by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (Fellow from 1983), the History of Economics Society (Distinguished Fellow, 2005), the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Honorary Member, 2005) and the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (inaugural Distinguished Fellow, 2010). The great bulk of the detail of his career – the research and publications that warranted all these honours, and his wider academic and intellectual activities – is documented in the tribute published on the occasion of his receiving the Economic Society's Award (Aspromourgos, ). It is therefore unnecessary to repeat that account here.…”

Peter Diderik Groenewegen, 1939–2018

“…Groenewegen made very considerable contributions of service to the global community of historians of economics and to the economics profession more widely. The specifics of all this, as a well as a more detailed account of his research history, is provided in Aspromourgos (2011); see also Groenewegen (1997b), Dollery (2002), Aspromourgos and Lodewijks (2004: 1-15). But there is more, as well, to a scholarly life than just these tangible contents of a curriculum vitae.…”