Donald Lamberton

Donald Lamberton (1927–2014) was an Australian economist. His work focused on information economics.

Early life and career

He grew up in New South Wales. He was homeschooled until the age of 11[1] and in May 1942 (just 14) went to work at the Bank of New South Wales.[2] He earned a degree in economics from the University of Sydney in 1949[2] and then worked for the Sydney Morning Herald as a financial journalist and in research and statistics at the Sydney Stock Exchange.[2]

Academic positions

He joined University of New England as a lecturer (1953-1957) before moving to University of Oxford for a PhD (1957-1960),[2] with funding from the Australian War Services Canteen Trust Fund.[1] His thesis "The Theory of Profit" was accepted at Oxford in 1962 and published in 1965.[2] In the meantime, returning to Australia, he became a senior lecturer (and later, an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales from 1960 to 1969.[2] During this period he visited the United States in 1966-7 as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University.[2] Later from 1969-1972 he was a professor at the American university Case Western Reserve University and then, in 1973 to 1989, a chair in economics at the University of Queensland, Australia.[2] From 1989-1992 he worked in Melbourne as codirector of[1] the Centre for International Research on Communications and Information Technologies.[2] He was then at the Australian National University from 1992 to 2004, in their Urban Research Programme and Public Policy Programme.[2] In 2005 he moved to the Queensland University of Technology.[2]

Writing

He authored over 20 books, 60 book chapters, 40 articles, and 30 reports,[2] including:

Books edited

Journals edited

In 1983 he founded Prometheus (journal)[1] and was general editor for "most of the 32 years since then".[1]

Writing about his work

A festschrift honoring his work was published in 1999.[3] As of 2014, the journal Prometheus is preparing a special issue of papers written by his students.[1]

Awards

In 2006 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to economics, as a leading academic and researcher in the field of information economics through the multidisciplinary study of the impact of technology, information and society on economic development".[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Macdonald, Stuart. "Don Lamberton 1927–2014." Prometheus 32.3 (2014): 223-225
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Lodewijks, John Prof (2007) "Professor of Foresight; An Interview with Donald Lamberton," Journal of Economic and Social Policy: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 5.
  3. ↑ Information and organization: a tribute to the work of Don Lamberton, edited by Stuart Macdonald and John Nightingale. ISBN 0444828869 Table of contents 1999, Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA.
  4. ↑ New Adjunct Professor appointed to the Centre, Griffith University
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