Alexander Hunter (23 December 1919 – 21 May 1971) was a Scottish-Australian industrial

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. He arrived in Australia in 1958 after being appointed a senior lecturer at the

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. He then gained prominence as the editor of ''The Economics of Australian Industry''. He became a professor of economics at the

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in 1961, then moving to the

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in 1965. He was a member of the editorial board of the ''

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''. He was married to Thelma Anna Carmela Cibelli and had three children. Hunter died of a coronary occlusion during a visit to Lae,

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, and was cremated.

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Papers of Alexander Hunter
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Alexander 1919 births 1971 deaths 20th-century Australian economists Scottish emigrants to Australia