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The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 46:2, pp. 279–282 Obituary Ross McDonald Parish (1928–2001) The year 2001 saw the loss of several giants of the Australian agricultural economics profession. They were leaders of the profession who had made significant contributions to the work of their colleagues and to the wider community. Ross Parish, who died on October 5, was one of those giants. Parish pioneered the use, in Australia and more widely, of the tools of microeconomic theory to assess the social costs and benefits of a range of rural and other policies. Here was no ritualised number-cruncher; rather, we had an elegant manipulator of theoretical concepts to analyse real world problems. Both in his career and in his publications he illustrated the fact that agricultural economics is part of the seamless cloth of economics. His standing in the wider world of Australian economics was summarised by his long-time colleague, Jack Duloy, who said ‘Ross made microeconomics a respectable area of economic analysis in Australia’. In doing this, he, among other things, helped lay the foundations for the reforms in agricultural price policy of the last few decades. In the Economic Record (1962) he published a classic
The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 2002
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