A Conversation with Warren Hogan

Abstract

Warren Hogan is an influential and colourful Australian economist who contributed substantially to the economics profession in this country and to public life more generally as senior advisor to business and government. A prolific researcher, mentor to innumerable students, Hogan was Professor of Economics for about 30 years at the University of Sydney. This is an edited transcript of an interview that provides insights into his career and the role of economists and some pithy comments on the changing nature of universities. Copyright © 2007 The Economic Society of Australia.