Donald Lamberton

Donald McLean Lamberton (29 July 1927 – 28 November 2014 ) was an Australian economist. His work focused on information economics.

Early life and career Lamberton grew up in New South Wales. Homeschooled until the age of eleven, he went to work at the Bank of New South Wales in May 1942, aged just fourteen years. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Sydney in 1949. His thesis "The Theory of Profit" was accepted in 1962 and published in 1965. In December 2015, the journal Prometheus published a special issue of papers written by his students.

Awards In 2006 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to economics, as a leading academic and researcher in the field of information economics through the multidisciplinary study of the impact of technology, information and society on economic development".