Chair Of Economics Research Articles

A Noble Protagonist of the Proletariat and the Peasantry: A Tribute to Bruce McFarlane

ABSTRACT At all times, Bruce McFarlane lived the Wobblies’ injunction: Organise! Educate! Agitate! Born in 1936 in Wollongong, Australia, his Marxism was nurtured by his father. After high school, he studied economics at Sydney University and taught in Wollongong, Australia, his Marxism was nurtured by his father. After high school, he studied economics at Sydney University and taught Economics at the University of Queensland, Politics at the Australian National University, and went on to the Chair of Politics at Adelaide University and the Chair of Economics at the University of Newcastle. He also held posts in Yugoslavia and India, studying and working on economic planning and worked at Cambridge University with Maurice Dobb, Michał Kalecki, Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson. He authored dozens of books and articles, mentored and collaborated with a range of colleagues including Melanie Beresford, Robert Catley, Steve Cooper, Peter Groenewegan, Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Limqueco and many more. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia from 1980 to 2005.

Gender at the core of systems of power and inequality

Elissa Braunstein is a Professor and Chair of Economics at Colorado State University, as well as Editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Most recently she worked for 2.5 years as a Senior Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Her work focuses on the international and macroeconomic aspects of development, with particular emphasis on economic growth, macro policy, social reproduction and gender. She publishes widely in both academic and policy venues, and has done consulting work for a number of international development institutions, including the International Labour Organization, the World Bank, the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, and UN Women. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Master’s of Pacific International Affairs from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego. (source editeur)

The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges

Eleanor Wiske Dillon and Jeffrey Andrew Smith Eleanor Dillon is Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College. Jeffrey Smith is Paul T. Heyne Distinguished Chair in Economics and Richard Meese Chair in Applied Econometrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an affiliate of the NBER, IZA, CESifo, and HCEO.

The ET Interview: Professor Hashem Pesaran

Since graduating with a PhD in Economics from Cambridge, Hashem Pesaran has been a prominent contributor to the theoretical econometrics literature, undertaking work on testing of non-nested models, cointegration, forecasting in the presence of model instability, forecasting of multinomial data, and estimation and testing of time-series and panel data models. His work also covers several areas of applied econometrics, including studies of oil prices, prices in financial markets, rational expectations and economic surveys, analysis of panel data models with cross sectional dependence, and spillover effects and interdependencies across international economies. Hashem is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals in economics and econometrics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, and the Journal of Econometrics. Previously, he was head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran and Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Iran. He has held positions as a Professor of Economics at Cambridge University and at UCLA. He is currently an emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, a life time Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Southern California.

Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness: Erratum

476 * Cappelen: Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, 5045 Bergen, Norway (e-mail: alexander.cappelen@nhh.no); Konow: Chair of Economics and Ethics, Kiel University, Germany, and Department of Economics, Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 (e-mail: jkonow@ lmu.edu); Sorensen: Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, 5045 Bergen, Norway (e-mail: erik.sorensen@nhh.no); Tungodden: Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, 5045 Bergen, Norway (e-mail: bertil.tungodden@nhh.no). † Go to http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20100273 to visit the article page for additional materials and author disclosure statement(s). Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness: Erratum By Alexander W. Cappelen, James Konow, Erik O. Sorensen, and Bertil Tungodden*

A.W.H. Phillips and Australia

With the recently released biography of A. W. H. Phillips by Alan Bollard (2016), this article focuses upon his time in Australia over two separate periods. This includes his sabbatical spent in Melbourne and Sydney in 1959 when he worked on an Australian version of his famous curve taking into account the different institutional background and then when he took up a professorial chair in economics at the Australian National University. Using new archival material the paper delves into both episodes and how Phillips career at the ANU was cut short by a major illness.

In Memoriam Robert C Stuart

Robert C Stuart passed away in Bellingham, Washington after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, a son, daughter, grandson, and brother.Robert C Stuart was born in British Columbia, where he attended the University of British Columbia, before completing his dissertation in economics at the University of Wisconsin in 1969. Robert served as a faculty member at Rutgers University from 1968 until his retirement in 2005. Bob taught for many years at Princeton, filling its gap in Soviet/Russian economics. He served as chair of economics at Rutgers from 1976 to 1979 and from 1986 to 1989. Robert edited Comparative Economic Studies from 1997 to 2002. Many of today’s scholars of comparative economics got their first publications under Bob’s editorship.

Marshall's Principle: A Former Labor Secretary Looks Back (and Ahead)

This article features an extended interview with Ray Marshall, professor emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, and former secretary of labor to President Jimmy Carter (1977–81). An influential figure in the field of labor economics and the economics of discrimination, Marshall joined the Carter administration at a pivotal moment in postwar American history. In this interview, he reflects on his time as secretary of labor, his broader career in academia and politics, and the state and future of working America, addressing topics that include contemporary politics, economic and fiscal policy, labor law, education and immigration reform, and the role of organized labor in American society.

How Richard Downing Obtained the Ritchie Chair

This article discusses how, after a tortuous process, Melbourne University found the right person to occupy the Ritchie Research Chair in Economics. It had been a position that had fallen vacant for over a decade after L.F. Giblin’s retirement in 1940. At a time when good economists were in short supply and following the failure of an advertising campaign, the position was offered to one of Melbourne’s own, Richard Downing. Before his elevation, a number of leading Australian economists had been considered. One of them, Douglas Copland, had always relished the position but there were institutional and personal hurdles facing his appointment.

Book Reviews

Casey Rothschild of Wellesley College reviews, “From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy: Retrospective and Prospective Views” by Robin Boadway. The EconLit Abstract of this book begins: “Explores the role of optimal tax analysis in informing and influencing tax policy design. Discusses the move from tax theory to policy—an overview; policy lessons from optimal tax theory; relaxing the second-best constraints; and challenges for second-best analysis. Boadway is D. C. Smith Chair in Economics at Queen's University, Kingston. Index.”

Book Reviews

Kent P. Kimbrough of Duke University reviews “Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy” by Stephen J. Turnovsky,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Investigates the process of economic growth in a small open economy and considers whether it is sensitive to the economy’s productive structure. Discusses a basic growth model with fixed labor supply; a basic growth model with endogenous labor supply; transitional dynamics and endogenous growth in one-sector models; two-sector growth models; nonscale growth models; a basic model of foreign aid; and foreign aid, capital accumulation, and economic growth--some extensions. Turnovsky is Castor Chair of Economics at the University of Washington. Index.”

Book Reviews

Melville L. McMillan of University of Alberta reviews “Fiscal Federalism: Principles and Practices of Multiorder Governance” by Robin Boadway, Anwar Shah,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Presents an account of the principles and practices of fiscal federalism based on the currently accepted theoretical framework and best practices. Discusses an introduction to federalism and the role of governments in federal economies; the decentralization of government authority; expenditure assignment; revenue assignment; natural resources ownership and management in a federal system; local governance in theory; local governance in practice; revenue sharing; the principles of intergovernmental transfers; the practice of intergovernmental transfers; finance and provision of health and education; finance and provision of infrastructure; poverty alleviation in federations; fiscal federalism and macroeconomic governance; interregional competition and policies for regional cohesion and convergence; decentralized governance and corruption; and adapting to a changing world. Boadway is David Chadwick Smith Chair in Economics at Queen’s University. Shah is Lead Economist and Program Leader of the Public Sector Governance Program at the World Bank Institute. Index.”

Book Reviews

Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University reviews “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity” by Nicholas Stern,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Considers how to create a global deal to take action to reduce the impact and damage of climate change in the world. Discusses why there is a problem and how we can deal with it; the dangers; how emissions can be reduced, and at what cost; adapting to climate change; ethics, discounting, and the case for action; policies to reduce emissions; individuals, firms, communities--the power of example; the structure of a global deal; building and sustaining action; and a planet in peril. Stern is IG Patel Chair in Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. Bibliography; index.”

Book Reviews

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo of University of Rome “La Sapienza” reviews “The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist” by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Guy Oakes,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores Joan Robinson’s career and scholarship as a Cambridge University economist in the 1930s. Discusses the improbable theoretician; Robinson and Richard Kahn; the making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition; becoming a Keynesian; and “who is Joan Robinson?” Aslanbeigui is Professor of Economics and Chair of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University. Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in the School of Business at Monmouth University. Bibliography; index.”

A ``European Consensus'' on the Growth Agenda? A Discussion of the Sapir Report

This paper offers a discussion of An Agenda for a Growing Europe: Making the Economic System Deliver, a report to the President of the European Commission prepared by a group of independent experts. The paper reflects the results of the 3rd Milan European Economy Workshop (May 28–29, 2004) and my personal views. The workshop was organised by the Department of Economics, University of Milan and the Jean Monnet Chair of Economics of European Integration, with the participation of more than twenty distinguished speakers from several institutions across the European Union.

Economy and history — A dissiden journal

Before the 1940s, research in economic history in Sweden was conducted in the history departments, which usually meant studies using traditional historical methods applied to economic source material. Furthermore, historically interested economists studied economic history using economics methods. However, there was one outstanding character who specialised in economic history proper, Eli F. Heckscher. After completing his doctoral thesis on an economic history topic in 1907, he held a chair in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics but was then appointed to a personal chair in economic history in the 1930s.

Knowledge and Organisation Strategies in Innovation Systems

International Journal of Innovation ManagementVol. 05, No. 01, pp. 105-127 (2001) No AccessKNOWLEDGE AND ORGANISATION STRATEGIES IN INNOVATION SYSTEMSCLAUDIA WERKERCLAUDIA WERKERUniversity of Greifswald, Chair of Economics and Growth, Structural Change and Trade, Friedrich-Loeffler-Straße 70, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany Search for more papers by this author https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919601000300Cited by:3 Previous AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractThe purpose of the following analysis is to identify the most promising organisational strategies of innovative agents under different environmental constraints. To do so, the processes of the relationships between these agents are taken into account by putting three aspects together. First, it is shown that the transfer, storage, and use of knowledge are significantly influenced by this knowledge's characteristics. Second, the main principles of the generation and selection of innovation are introduced from the systemic point of view. As a third element, the variety of possible relationships between innovative agents are categorised to identify the different organisational principles that can be employed. By putting all these elements together, it is possible to show which strategies are the most promising under different constraints given by the innovation possibilities, the relevant institutions, the knowledge employed, and the kind of innovation expected.Keywords:knowledgeinnovationorganisationinnovation system Remember to check out the Most Cited Articles! Be inspired by these New Titles in Business and Management FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited By 3Networks of entrepreneurs driving the Triple Helix: two cases of the Dutch energy systemClaudia Werker, Jolien Ubacht and Andreas Ligtvoet4 December 2017 | Triple Helix, Vol. 4, No. 1Innovation in a Heterogeneous CCS Research Centre, Managerial and Organizational ChallengesAasen Tmb, MØlnvik Mj, Aarlien R, Bredesen R and Munkejord St et al.1 Jan 2012 | Energy Procedia, Vol. 23Toward a framework of innovation management in logistics firms: A systems perspectiveHao Shen, Longwei Wang, Qiang Xu, Yuan Li and Xunfeng Liu1 Mar 2009 | Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 26, No. 2 Recommended Vol. 05, No. 01 Metrics History Received 10 August 2000 Revised 1 February 2001 Accepted 2 February 2001 Keywordsknowledgeinnovationorganisationinnovation systemPDF download

Following the Trend into Medical History

Recent publications suggest that scholars in many fields have decided that medical history is too important to be left to medical historians. Colleagues have been drawn in from sociology, from political science, and, above all, from regular history to contribute to knowledge about the history of medicine and health. Indeed, two recent winners of the specialty group recognition award, the William H. Welch medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, have been historians who were not specially trained in the field and whose writings were not previously focused on medicine or health. Certainly the authors of the two books under review here did not start out as medical historians: Kenneth Allen De Ville is a legal historian, and his book appears in a social history series; Samuel H. Preston holds a chair in sociology and Michael R. Haines holds a chair in economics, and their book appears in a series on long-term factors in economic development. Medical historians will read these volume with great interest, but so will general American historians as attention to health and even life continues to grow with astonishing rapidity. The medical history in these two books may not celebrate the old theme of the supposedly inevitable progress of medicine, but the authors are certainly presentist in their choice of subject. Medical malpractice is currently as urgent as almost any subject in national policy, and De Ville does not hold back from displaying the implications of nineteenthcentury experience for Americans of the late twentieth. Likewise, the underlying question of Preston and Haines's book is that raised years ago by

Theoretical Problems Pertaining To the Management of the Economy of Developing Countries

From the 2nd to the 5th of October of this year, the Third Inter-republic Scientific Conference of Institutions of Higher Education on the study of economic and social problems of developing countries was held in Leningrad. It was organized at the initiative of the chair of economics of modern capitalism of Leningrad State University. Over a hundred scientists from institutions of higher learning and associates of academic institutions and departmental scientific research institutes took part in the work of the conference. The participants were from Leningrad, Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Ivanovo, and other cities in the RSFSR, as well as from cities in other union republics—Kiev, Riga, Dushanbe, and Tashkent. Over fifty papers and addresses were delivered.

Economic Scholarship in Canada

Economics first appeared in a Canadian university curriculum more than eighty years ago; thirty years later several universities were offering groups of courses in economics that could qualify a student for the equivalent of an honours degree in economics; but it is only in the past thirty-five years that a steady flow of scholarly writing in Canadian economics has developed. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of this Journal provides an appropriate occasion to review briefly the expansion of economic scholarship in Canada.The first university course in political economy to be offered in Canada was in 1878 when the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University introduced a course of lectures based on Adam Smith, Mill, and Jevons. Ten years later, in 1888, Adam Shortt was appointed lecturer in political economy and in 1891 he became the Sir John A. Macdonald Professor of Political Science. The University of Toronto appointed its first professor of political science in 1888, and (Sir) William Ashley gave lectures in both political economy and constitutional history. McGill entered the field in 1899 when Dr. LeRossignol of Colorado was appointed visiting professor for one year. In 1900 Stephen Leacock was appointed lecturer in political science, and in 1901 (Sir) William Flux was brought over from England to occupy McGill's first chair in economics. The succeeding chairs of political economy in Canadian universities were occupied by A. L. McCrimmon at McMaster in 1904, E. Bouchette at Montreal in 1907, and A. B. Clark at Manitoba in 1909.