It is an honour that I very much appreciate. I met Colin Clark very briefly at Monash University in the late 1960s when I was starting my professional career and he was finishing his and easing into retirement. He was a remarkable man who was widely respected by the world’s economics profession, but who received less recognition in Australia than he deserved.
Previous speakers in the series have given accounts of his career so I will confine myself to two anecdotes. The first is based on something I spotted quite recently. Out of nothing more than idle curiosity, I looked up the journal Econometrica for 1950 to see one of John Nash’s original articles.