A conversation with Warren Hogan

This is an edited and condensed transcript of an interview with Warren Pat Hogan that took place in his office at University of Technology, Sydney, on 11 January 2006. Warren Hogan is an influential and colourful Australian economist who contributed substantially to the economics profession in this country and to public Iife more generally as senior advisor to business and government. A prolific researcher, mentor to innumerable students, Hogon was Professor of Economics for about 30 years at the University of Sydney. This is an edited transcript of an interview that provides insights into his career and the role of economists and some pithy comments on the changing nature of universities.