Biography

Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in 1915, gained two degrees at Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

 and taught at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 and Manchester University before settling in Australia in 1946. In 1950, he took up a chairmanship in economics at the then Canberra University College

Canberra University College

Canberra University College was a tertiary education institution established in Canberra by the Australian government and the University of Melbourne in 1930...

. He became head of the department at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies was founded in 1946 as an institute of advanced study at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.-History:...

 (RSPAS) at Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

 (ANU) in 1963. He held this position until retiring in 1980. One of his main activities as head of the department was his establishment and management of the Indonesia project

Indonesia project

The Indonesia Project, established in 1965 with an initial grant from the Ford Foundation, is a center of research and graduate training on the Indonesian economy...

 which sponsors research on the Indonesian economy. As part of his activities with the Indonesia project he established the academic journal Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES). Arndt died in Canberra in May 2002.

Arndt was President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, and President of Section G (Economics) of ANZAAS. He wrote or co-wrote seven books, edited two collections of articles by various authors on the Australian economy, published six collections of his own essays, and produced more than a hundred articles, reports, book reviews and published lectures.

External links

• Arndt's Story: The life of an Australian economist Peter Coleman, Selwyn Cornish, Peter Drake, Bettina Arndt
  Bettina Arndt
  Bettina Arndt is an Australian sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist.-Biography:She was born in Penrith, England to Heinz Arndt and Ruth , the youngest of three children .In 1971 after completing her Bachelor of Science at Australian National...
  
   (2007) Asia Pacific Press ISBN 0731538102