Areas of expertise

• Economic History 140203
• Financial Economics 140207
• Macroeconomic Theory 140102
• Comparative Economic Systems 149901
• International Economics And International Finance 140210
• History Of Economic Thought 140101
• Economic Development And Growth 140202

Research interests

Publications

• Coleman, W & Coleman, W 2019, 'Sir Joseph Carruthers. Founder of the New South Wales Liberal Party', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 137-138.
• Coleman, W & Coleman, W 2019, 'Sir Joseph Carruthers. Founder of the New South Wales Liberal Party', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 137-138.
• Coleman, W & Coleman, W 2018, 'Six Problems in the Biography of Alfred Deakin', Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 79-91.
• Coleman, W 2018, 'A History of Australasian Economic Thought', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 150-151pp.
• Coleman, W & Coleman, W 2018, 'Six Problems in the Biography of Alfred Deakin', Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 79-91.
• Coleman, W 2018, 'Was Federation Uniting or Dividing? The Impact of the Customs Union of 1901 on Australian Trade Relationships', Economic Papers, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 230-247pp.
• Coleman, W 2017, 'Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis. Selected Essays', Economic Record, vol. 93, no. 301, pp. 340-341pp.
• Coleman, W 2017, 'Weighing the Significance of World War I for the Australian Economy', The Australian Economic Review, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 278-293pp.
• Coleman, W, ed., 2016, Only in Australia: The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Coleman, W 2015, 'Australia and New Zealand: a Young Tree Dead?', in Vincent Barnett (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 281-293.
• Coleman, W 2015, 'The historiography of Australian economic history', in Simon Ville & Glenn Withers (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, pp. 11-28.
• Coleman, W 2014, 'Theorising Optimal Population Between the Wars: the Contribution of Australian Economists', History of Economics Review, vol. 57, no. Winter, pp. 44-61.
• Coleman, W 2014, 'Ian Castles: Scholar as Truth Teller', in Andrew Podger and Dennis Trewin (ed.), Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing: How Important is Economic Growth? Essays in honour of Ian Castles AO and a selection of Castles' papers, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 29-37pp..
• Coleman, W 2014, 'The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order', Economic Record, vol. 90, no. 289, pp. 257-258.
• Coleman, W 2014, 'Popular Despotism: an Economist's Explanation', in Gregory CG Moore (ed.), The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia: The relevance of the Popperian Framework, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, pp. 145-159.
• Coleman, W 2014, 'The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of the Natural Order, by Bernard E. Harcourt (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2011), pp. 336.', Economic Record, vol. 90, no. 289, pp. 257-258.
• Coleman, W, ed., 2014, Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Volume 21, Number 1, 2014.
• Coleman, W 2013, 'What Was 'New' About Neoliberalism?', Economic Affairs, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 78-92.
• Coleman, W 2013, 'The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years, by Lawrence H. White', Economic Record, vol. 89, no. 285, pp. 280-281.
• Coleman, W 2013, 'Book review: Building Chicago Economics, by Robert van Horn, Philip Mirowski and Thomas A. Stapleford', Economic Record, vol. 89, no. 286, pp. 434-436.
• Coleman, W 2012, 'Pipe dreams and tunnel visions: The course of population debates in Australia', in Jonathon Pincus and Graeme Hugo (ed.), A Greater Australia: Population, policies and governance, Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Melbourne, pp. 34-48.
• Coleman, W & Oslington, P 2012, 'Introduction by this Special Issue's Editors', Economic Record, vol. 88, no. SUPPL.1, pp. 1pp.
• Coleman, W 2010, 'When expansionary fiscal policy is contractionary: A neoklassikal scenario', Economic Record, vol. 86, no. SUPPL. 1, pp. 61-68.
• Coleman, W 2010, The Political Economy of Wages and Unemployment: A Neoclassical Exploration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK.
• Coleman, W & Taitslin, A 2008, 'The enigma of A.V. Chayanov', in Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert (ed.), Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, pp. 91-105.
• Coleman, W 2009, '"The Power of simple theory and important facts": A Conversation with Bob Gregory', Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 61-89.
• Coleman, W 2008, 'Gauging Economic Performance under Changing Terms of Trade: Real Gross Domestic Income or Real Gross Domestic Product?', Economic Papers, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 101-116.
• Tyers, R & Coleman, W 2008, 'Beyond Brigden: Australia's Inter-War Manufacturing Tariffs, Real Wages and Economic Size', Economic Record, vol. 84, no. 264, pp. 50-67.
• Coleman, W 2007, The Causes, Costs and Compensations of Inflation: An Investigation of Three Problems in Monetary Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
• Coleman, W 2007, 'The Group Life as a Genre of Economists' Life Writing', History of Political Economy, vol. Annual Supplement to Volume 39, pp. 96-114.
• Coleman, W 2006, 'A Conversation with Max Corden', vol. 82, no. 259, pp. 379-395.
• Coleman, W & Cornish, S 2006, Giblin's Platoon: the trials and triumph of the economist in Australian public life, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
• Coleman, W 2005, 'A Conversation with Murray Kemp', History of Economics Review, vol. 41, pp. 1-18.
• Coleman, W 2005, 'Taking Out the Pins: Economics as Alive and Living in the History of Economic Thought', Economic Papers, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 107-115.
• Coleman, W 2004, 'Running Economics Down: Fact and Fantasy in the Presentation of Economists in the Media', Economic Papers, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 58-72.
• Coleman, W 2004, 'Cambridge, England or Cambridge, Tasmania? Some Recent Excavations of the Giblin Multiplier', History of Economics Review, vol. 39, no. 39, pp. 1-11.
• Coleman, W 2003, 'Anti-Semitism in Anti-economics', History of Political Economy, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 760-777.
• Coleman, W & Hagger, A 2003, 'An Edinburgh of the South? Some Contributions to Fundamental Economic Analysis by Tasmanian Economists in the 1920s', Tasmanian Historical Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 10-27.
• Coleman, W 2001, 'Is it possible that an Independent Central Bank is Impossible? The Case of the Australian Note Issue Board, 1920-1924', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 729-748.