摘要：Professor Fred Gruen AO died on 29 October 1997, only weeks after hisson Nicholas had accepted the Economic Society of Australia's highesthonour, its Distinguished Fellowship award, on his father's behalf. Fred'sacceptance speech (read by Nicholas to the Hobart meeting of the Society inSeptember 1997) reviewed a career as an economist spanning half a century,neatly subdivided into 25 years as an agricultural economist, followed by asimilar span as a general policy economist.
