Clark, Colin Grant 1905-1989
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1905 · died 1989
Colin Grant Clark was a British and Australian economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia. He pioneered the use of gross national product (GNP) as the basis for studying national economies.
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Papers including correspondence, mostly post-1931.
Colin Clark Papers, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
Papers, especially memoranda and correspondence with Fabian Sociey and Labour Party in 1920s and 1930s.
Colin Clark Papers, Brasenose College Oxford.
Correspondents
EVAN FRANK MOTTRAM DURBIN, Correspondence 1930s, Durbin Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
MILTON FRIEDMAN, Correspondence 1948-48, Friedman Papers, Hoover Insitution Archives, Stanford University
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Correspondence 1930-45, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1937-82, Meade Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1928-1975, Robbins Papers, BLPES
JOHN RICHARD NICHOLAS STONE, Correspondence 1957-88, Stone Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Correspondence 1957-88, Institute of Economic Affairs Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
Printed material
Anthony Endres, ‘Colin Grant Clark (1905-1989)’ in J.E. King (ed) A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007) 49-53
ODNB; New Palgrave I 428; IESS