Heinz Arndt
Australian economist (1915-2002)
Heinz Wolfgang Arndt (26 February 1915 – 6 May 2002) was a German-born Australian economist.
Biography
Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1915, the eldest son of Fritz Georg Arndt (1885–1969) and Julia (née Heimann). Arndt gained two degrees at Oxford and taught at the London School of Economics and University of Manchester before settling in Australia in 1946. While studying in England, he married his wife Ruth (nee Strohsahl) with whom he later lived in Canberra until her death in 2001.
In 1950, Arndt took up a chairmanship in economics at the then Canberra University College. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1954. He became head of the department at the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1963. He held this position until retiring in 1980. One of his main activities as head of the department was the establishment and management of the Indonesia Project which sponsors research on the Indonesian economy. As part of his activities with the Indonesia Project he established the academic journal Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).
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