Using a century of MUP publications and archives, Stuart Kells has written a rich and fascinating history of an invaluable Australian institution - one that is widely seen as public property, and whose ups and downs have always been news.
Stuart Kells has written on a wide range of subjects including libraries, intellectual property, economic regulation, professional services, financial markets and diamond mining. His shorter works have been published around the world including in Smithsonian, The Paris Review, The Guardian and The Times. At the University of Melbourne he won the Desmond Cleary Prize in Financial Economics and the KPMG Prize in Taxation Law. He received the National Australia Bank Scholarship in Economics and the Potter Warburg Scholarship in Finance and Economics. At Monash University, where he completed his PhD, Kells received the Monash Law Dean's Award. He is now Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University's College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce. He won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize in 2015 and again in 2018.
