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Economic Gospel Wins Christian Book Of The Year

6:54pm Friday, 19th August 2011  

One of the nation's leading economists has won the Christian Book of the Year award with a book he regards as one of his most significant contributions to civic life in Australia.

Emeritus Professor Ian Harper of Melbourne Business School, now a partner with Deloitte Access Economics, won the first prize for ‘Economics for Life', awarded at the 31st Australian Christian Literature Awards on Thursday, 18 August 2011 in Melbourne.

Harper, who beat 67 other contestants to take the top prize, says he wrote the book as an "attempt to make sense of his professional life in light of his faith". He was encouraged by the late Bishop, John Wilson, to take on the project. 

Harper says economics is a "good servant" but a "bad master". One of three panellists appointed in January 2011 by the Baillieu Government of Victoria to carry out an Independent Review of State Finances, Harper declares that "economics makes a valuable contribution to clear thinking about important questions that focus on humanity's material condition, yet it is not a philosophy for the whole of life-and was never intended to be".

In 2000, Harper was elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in recognition of his standing as an academic economist, and more recently to a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

The Awards were judged by an interdenominational panel of judges and presented by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Australia (SPCKA).

Economics for life is available at  www.acornpress.net.au