Sir Frank Holmes: public economist

Abstract

For 60 years Frank Holmes was a colossus of New Zealand’s social and economic development. At the centre of his career was the university, and especially the Institute of Policy Studies. When he left the university for the second time, Frank said two significant things: first, that nobody who had contributed to his first farewell should feel obliged to contribute again; and secondly, that his heart was in the university and would remain so. It did. He never left.