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The Duncan Ironmonger Archive

The Australian economist Duncan Ironmonger was a pioneer in the measurement and valuation of unpaid care work in the household. In addition to the brief appreciations below, this archive includes brief overview of his life by Michael Bittman, a pdf of some of Duncan’s most important unpublished work (soon to be added), and links to some photographs of him over his lifetime, from his memorial service.

Appreciations

Michael Bittman, Expert on the sociology of time use:

Duncan’s ideas are highly original and, in my opinion, way in advance of the input valuation of non-market production as fraction of GDP (which values both capital and labour inputs to the market economy). I think that even in incomplete form these ideas should be available to students of the care economy.

Marilyn Waring, author of If Women Counted:

“Duncan Ironmonger was my PhD examiner, and his breakthrough and often renegade work, especially on Input Output analyses of Household accounts, and on time use, have been very influential in my own research and writing. I have quoted Duncan’s work many times over 40 years. His ideas never stopped, and he was never a ‘boring economist’.