CHAIR OF ECONOMICS.
POSITION FOR NEW ZEALANDER LONDON, July 18. The Royal Institute of International Affairs' lias appointed Professor Allan G. B. Fisher, of the chair of economics in the University of Western Australia, and formerly professor of economics in the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, first occupant of the chair of international economics at tho institute’s headquarters, to inaugurate an intensive research into world economic problems in accordance with the terms of Sir Henry Price’s recent gift of £20,000.
Professor Fisher, born at Christchurch in 1895. was educated at the University of Melbourne, and the London School of Economics. He was professor of economics in the University of Otago from 1924 to 1935, when be went to the University of Western Australia. He was economic adviser to the Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1934. His publications include: “Some Problems of Wages and their Regulation in Great Britain since 1918,” 1926: “Moscow Impressions,” 1932; “The Clash of Progress and Security,” 1935.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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