Colin Clark (economist)

Colin Clark
Born(1905-11-02)2 November 1905
London, England
Died4 September 1989(1989-09-04) (aged 83)
Brisbane, Australia
NationalityBritish/Australian
Alma materOxford University
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsOxford University, Cambridge University, Monash University, University of Queensland
Doctoral studentsSir Richard Stone
V.K.R.V. Rao
Sir Alexander Cairncross
Hans Singer

Colin Grant Clark (2 November 1905 – 4 September 1989) was a British and Australian economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia. He pioneered the use of gross national product (GNP) as the basis for studying national economies.[1]

  1. ^ Patinkin, Don (1976). "Keynes and Econometrics: On the Interaction between the Macroeconomic Revolutions of the Interwar Period". Econometrica. 44 (6): 1091–1123. doi:10.2307/1914249. JSTOR 1914249.