Allan George Barnard Fisher

Allan George Barnard Fisher
Born	26/02/1895 Christchurch, New Zealand
Died	08/06/1976 London, England
Fields	economics

Allan George Barnard Fisher (26 Oct 1895 in Christchurch, New Zealand - 8 January 1976 in London, England) was a noted New Zealand born economist.

Perhaps his most notable contribution was to investigate economic development in terms of the sequential dominance of different sectors of the economy: the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors (three-sector theory).

Allan was born in New Zealand but moved with his parents to Australia, where he attended the Scotch College and the University of Melbourne. From 1916 to early 1918, Allan served in the Australian Army at the 14th Australian General Hospital at Cairo and Port Said, later moving to Palestine and spending 5 months on the Jaffa-Jerusalem road with the Australian 5th Camel Corps Field Ambulance. On his return to the University of Melbourne in 1919 he became a lecturer in the philosophy department. He gave a talk on 'Palestine and Jerusalem', copies of which are in the University of Melbourne Library and the British Library.

In 1924 he gained his PhD the London School of Economics. The notes he made on lectures attended are in the LSE archives. He returned to Australia in 1925 and was Professor of Economics at the University of Otago from 1925 to 1935.

In 1930 and 1931 Allan was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, which enabled him to travel and study in China, Russia, Poland, Geneva, England and the United States.

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