John Bell Condliffe (1891-1981)
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John Bell Condliffe (1891-1981) was a noted international economist and New Zealand historian. Born December 23, near Melbourne, Australia, he died on the same day 90 years later in Walnut Creek, California, in the USA. His long career spanned several wars and continents, and saw him contribute significant work in public, private, and educational arenas.

• 1891 December 23, Born in Yarraville, near Melbourne, Australia

• 1892 Family moved to Bendigo

• 1899 February 11, father Alfred Bell Condliffe died in a riding accident

• 1904 Family moved to Christchurch, New Zealand

• 1908 Began work as a government customs officer intern

• 1913 BA, Canterbury College

• 1914 MA, University of Canterbury

• 1915 Lecturer in Economics, University of Canterbury

• 1916 Married Olive Grace Mills

• 1916-1918 Great War, volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force aka Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [ANZACs]

• 1919-1920 Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

• 1920-1926 Professor of Economics, Canterbury College

• 1925 Attended the first conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu

• 1927 DSc (Economics) Canterbury College; Author, Problems of the Pacific

• 1927-1931 Research Secretary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Hawaii

• 1930 Author, New Zealand in the Making

• 1930-1931 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

• 1931 Author, Problems of Food and Population in the Pacific Area, and The Pacific Area in International Relations

• 1931-1937 Member, Economic Intelligence Service, League of Nations

• 1932 Author, China To-Day: Economic

• 1933 Author, World Economic Survey

• 1935 Author, A Short History of New Zealand, and War and Depression

• 1937-1939 Professor of Commerce, London School of Economics

• 1938 Author, Markets and the Problem of Peaceful Change, and A Survey of International Research in Europe

• 1939 Howland Prize, Yale University; Author, The Changing Structure of Economic Life

• 1940-1958 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

• 1940 Author, The Reconstruction of World Trade

• 1941 Author, Report Upon a Survey International House, University of California, Berkeley

• 1942 Honorary LLD, Occidental College; Author, Agenda For a Postwar World

• 1943 Author, The Economic Pattern of World Population

• 1943-1944 Research Associate, Institute of International Studies, Yale University

• 1943-1947 Associate Director, Division of Economics and History, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• 1944 Author, The Foreign Economic Policy of the United States, and The Common Interest in International Economic Organisation

• 1945 United States citizenship; Author, How Much Tariff Protection for Farm Products?, La Politica Economic Exterior De Estados Unidos, Exchange Stabilization, and World Economic Survey

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• 1946 Author, Proposals For Consideration by an International Conference on Trade and Development

• 1947 Author, Obstacles to Multilateral Trading and The Foreign Loan Policy of the United States

• 1950 Wendell Wilkie Prize; Author, The Commerce of Nations, The Economic Consequences of Scientific Research, and Point Four and the World Economy

• 1951 Author, Technological Progress and Economic Development and International Trade and Economic Nationalism

• 1953 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

• 1957 Honorary LittD, University of New Zealand

• 1959-1960 Adviser, Indian National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi

• 1959 Author, The Welfare State in New Zealand

• 1961-1967 Senior Economist, Stanford Research Institute

• 1964 Author, The Development of Australia

• 1965 Author, Foresight and Enterprise, and From Adam Smith to Keynes and After

• 1966 Author, The Balancing of International Payment: Money and Goods

• 1967 Author, The University and Technology

• 1969 Author, The Economic Outlook for New Zealand

• 1971 Author, Te Rangi Hiroa

• 1972 Sir James Wattie Prize

• 1973 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury

• 1974 Author, Defunct Economists

• 1977 Gold Cross, Royal Order of Phoenix (Greece)

• 1981 Author, Reminiscences of the Institute of Pacific Relations

• 1981, December 23, Died in Walnut Creek, California, USA

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