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Douglas Copland

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This caricature of New Zealand economist Douglas Copland comes from the University of Melbourne where he taught in the 1920s and 1930s. Listen to Copland talking in 1959 about his views of the level of aid required to assist developing countries.

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Image: University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne Photographs Collection, UMA/I/1967

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Gary Hawke, Economic thought – 1930s economic depression, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/22309/douglas-copland (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gary Hawke, published 18 May 2010.