Biography
Swan graduated from the University of Sydney in 1939, having studied part-time while working at the Rural Bank. He was employed in government service until 1950, and contributed to the White Paper on Full Employment which set the framework for Australian macroeconomic policy in the postwar decades. In 1950, he was appointed as the first chair of economics created at the Australian National University, remaining Professor of Economics until his retirement in 1983.
In 1975 he was appointed to the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and reappointed in 1980. He died in 1989.
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