Articles, speeches and broadcasts, 1919-1969

Component identifier:

Series 8

Content Summary:

As the evidence of this and the following series suggests, Copland was undoubtedly a very public economist. For over 40 years his opinions and thoughts were carried in a diversity of scholarly journals and popular magazines and sought by editors, publishers, and organisations alike. The texts of his addresses and broadcasts were so often published or roneoed that they have been arranged with the articles, in date order, to form the main subseries of Series 8. Associated material such as drafts, notes, cuttings, and research material had been filed here as well.

Subseries 2 is preceded by correspondence 1919-1966, with editors, organisations, companies, societies, and broadcasting and television companies. It is arranged chronologically. Letters from listeners, viewers, and readers of his articles, and correspondence to and from people receiving free copies of the texts are also located in Subseries 1. Where the texts of articles, etc. have formed enclosures, they have been kept with the appropriate letter rather than in Subseries 2.

Some of the subjects covered in Series 8 are America's economic leadership, Nanking, monetary policy, the Australian economy and its future, Australia's interests in South-East Asia, taxation, sterling, economic development, the Depression and its remedy, borrowing through Treasury bills, the Chinese social structure. Other topics covered are international trade, the effects of immigration on the Australian economy, inflation, the full-employment economy, the British Commonwealth, and Communism and development in third-world countries. Journals and magazines represented in the collection include the Harvard Business Review, Today, The Economic Record, The Canadian Journal of Economic and Political Science, The Economic Journal, The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, The International Journal. Other journals in the series are the Indian Quarterly, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Rydges Business Journal, Pix, The Australian Quarterly, Management Newsletter, Investor's Chronicle, Meanjin Quarterly, The Australian Journal of the Institute of Transport, and Westerly.

The series has a third group of papers consisting of material on some of Copland's memorial lectures. It covers the Beatty Memorial lecture (McGill University, Montreal, 1961), the Marshall Memorial Lecture (Cambridge University, 1933) the Roy Milne Memorial Lecture (Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1957), the Shann Memorial Lecture (University of Western Australia, 1962), the Sidney Ball Lecture (Oxford University, 1953), and the George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology (Canberra, 1948).

Payment for articles and broadcasts is noted in Series 4. Articles, speeches, and broadcasts on subjects or events forming the basis of other series have been placed elsewhere. Articles written for year books like the Encyclopaedia Britannica Year Book are in Series 7. Further articles and speeches are in the 1977-1981 additions. Articles, broadcasts, and speeches by others are in Series 10. A relatively complete bibliography appears as 'A list of writings by Sir Douglas Copland' in Economic Record, vol. 36, no. 73, March 1960: 173-78.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lady Copland presented the personal papers of Sir Douglas Copland to the National Library in September 1973. Additions to the collection were received from the Copland Family between 1977 and 1981.

Names:

Copland, D.B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971

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