James William Crawford Cumes (23 August 1922 – 21 November 2013) was an Australian author and economist and a former public servant and diplomat.
[1] During World War II, Cumes was in the Australian Army, and fought on the Kokoda Track.
[5] In his 1988 book A Bunch of Amateurs, Cumes critiqued the performance of Australia's foreign ministers,[6] offering an unfavourable assessment of then Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Bill Hayden.
[7] In a review of Cumes' 1990 book How to Become a Millionaire Without Really Working that appeared in The Canberra Times, Peter Bowler praised Cumes for his sunny, cheerful, sensible and interesting take on money-making.
He moved between houses in Australia, Austria, Monaco and the South of France.