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Wilfred Edward Graham Salter, 1929-1963.

Australian economist, studied at the University of Western Australia before proceeding for post-graduate study at Clare College, Cambridge.  There, he was taken as a student of fellow-Australian economist W.B. Reddaway.  In his thesis (pub. 1960), Salter introduced the theory of embodied technical change and putty-clay production functions. 

In 1956, Salter returned to take up a position at the Australian National University in Canberra.  He worked briefly for the government, before his untimely death at 34 on a mission in Pakistan.  

 

  

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Major Works of Wilfred E.G. Salter

  • "Internal and External Balance : The role of price and expenditure effects", 1959, Econ Record
  • "The Production Function and the Durability of Capital", 1959, Econ Record
  • Productivity and Technical Change, 1960.
  • "Marginal Labour and Investment Coefficients of Australian Manufacturing Industry", 1962, Econ Record
  • "Productivity Growth and Accumulation as Historical Processes", 1965, in Robinson, editor, Problems in Economic Development

 
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