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Hearn was born in County Cavan, Ireland and died in Melbourne, Australia. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, he was appointed professor of political economy and other subjects at the University of Melbourne in 1854. Subsequently a member of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria and contributor to the local press, Hearn is known to economists principally for his Plutology (1863).
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Copland, D.A. 1935. W.E. Hearn: First Australian economist. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
La Nauze, J.A. 1949. Political economy in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
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White, M. (1987). Hearn, William Edward (1826–1888). In: Durlauf, S., Blume, L. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_9-1
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