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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Labour Economics | Macroeconomics (Incl. Monetary And Fiscal Theory) | Applied Economics | Human Resources Management
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Macroeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Management and productivity issues not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
The Customs Union Issue
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 27-02-2014
Economic thought and religious thought: A comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-06-2003
What is an Australian Job Worth?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-08-2020
Contracting-out of assistance to the unemployed: Implications of the Australian experiment
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
Migration, jobs and welfare: A general equilibrium analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2001
Alasdair MacIntyre and Adam Smith on markets, virtues and ends in a capitalist economy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-06-2023
DOI: 10.1111/BEER.12560
Abstract: In recent decades, Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a style of moral philosophy and an argument for Neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics that has deeply influenced business ethics. Most of the work inspired by MacIntyre has dealt with in idual and organisational dimensions of business ethics rather than the market economic environment in which in iduals and organisations operate. MacIntyre has been a fierce critic of capitalism and economics. He has read Adam Smith an advocate of selfish in idualism, rule‐based ethics and the banishment of teleology. This reading is seriously defective, and Smith in fact offers much of what MacIntyre calls for in economics. MacIntyre's ethical framework can be made more powerful and useful to business ethicists by incorporating Smithian insights, especially Smith's account of market virtues and teleological account of markets as extended cooperation directed towards the common good of wealth creation. Aside from issues of the interpretation of MacIntyre and Smith, this analysis opens new pathways for dialogue between business ethicists and economists.
The economics of Bernard Lonergan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-04-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S105383722000053X
Abstract: Bernard Lonergan S.J. (1904–1984) is unusual among major theologians in engaging deeply with economic theory. In the 1940s he developed his own dynamic multisectoral macroeconomic model, informed by readings of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, and later Michal Kalecki. Lonergan’s economic research is little known because the economic manuscripts were not published in his lifetime and his interactions with professional economists were limited. In the 1970s, however, when he returned to economics he engaged with post-Keynesians and taught a graduate course on macroeconomics at Boston College until illness overtook him. This paper places Lonergan’s economic research in the context of his overall intellectual project, outlines his macroeconomic model and associated theory of the business cycle, then evaluates his contribution in relation to mid-twentieth-century macroeconomics and considers whether it has anything to offer contemporary economists. Whatever view we take of his theoretical contributions, Lonergan’s work opens up connections between economics and theology.
Factor market linkages in a global economy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Jacob Viner on Adam Smith: Development and reception of a theological reading
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2012
Development economics and classical economics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1997
Economics and theology special issue: introduction
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-02-2016
Contextual history, practitioner history, and classic status: Reading Jacob Viner's the customs union issue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 13-11-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S1053837213000308
Abstract: Jacob Viner’s The Customs Union Issue , published in 1950, is the one undeniable classic in its field. The first part of this paper traces the development of Viner’s thinking on preferential trading arrangements, places his work in context, and clarifies his position on disputed issues. The second part considers the reception of his work, from the enthusiastic early reviewers to the international economists who further developed the theory of customs unions, to contemporary practitioners. While practitioners consistently misread Viner, these misreadings were scientifically fruitful, and there are reasons why fruitful science might flow from poor contextual history. Among contemporary international economists, the book has become a classic, marking off and justifying a field of enquiry.
Unemployment and trade liberalisation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2005
The Curious Tale of Libanius, Grotius and Jacob Viner’s Universal Economy Doctrine
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2022
The ‘New View’ of Adam Smith in Context
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2018
The Development of Catholic Social Teaching on Economics: Bernard Lonergan and Benedict XVI
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2012
DOI: 10.1177/004056391207300206
Abstract: Affected by the Great Depression and the inadequacy of the “simple-minded moralism” of church commentators on economic matters, Bernard Lonergan worked on a macrodynamic economic model in the 1940s and returned to it in the 1970s. The authors here situate Lonergan's economics in relation to economic theory then and now, as well as within his own overall project. They consider its possible contribution to the development of Catholic social teaching on economics, especially in dialogue with Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in veritate. Finally, they discuss the light Lonergan sheds on the importance and difficulties of interdisciplinary work.
The impact of uncertainty and irreversibility on investments in online learning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2004
Introduction by this Special Issue's Editors
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2012
Micro vs macro explanations of post-war US unemployment movements
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Japanese contributions to the theory of international trade
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2000
Political economy as natural theology: Smith, Malthus and their followers
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-07-2017
Trade, migration, and inequality in a world without factor price equalization
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-08-2010
A theological economics
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1108/03068290010306444
Abstract: Over the past century explicit discussion of theology has all but disappeared from economic discourse, while economics has been largely ignored by theologians. This paper argues that this separation is neither desirable nor possible, and calls for a theological economics. The argument is in two parts – a primary argument for the necessity and primacy of theology coming from the nature of orthodox Christian theology, and a secondary argument based on points of contact between economics and theology. Acceptance of the argument does not lead to a separatist “Christian” economics, but rather to discussion of theology implicit in contemporary economics and better relations between the two disciplines. Some existing work along these lines is briefly surveyed.
Sacred and secular in Australian social services
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2015
Abstract: Church-related not-for-profit organizations deliver approximately half of social services in Australia through contracting arrangements with governments. The religious dimensions have attracted remarkably little attention, but along with religious schooling and hospitals, social services are at the front line of the sacred–secular interactions in Australia. This will become even more so with the advent of the National Disability Scheme. In contemporary social services contracting we have a peculiarly Australian religious settlement where government draws on the benign and useful elements of religion while bypassing difficult and potentially dangerous theological and interdenominational disputes. However, the government, in some cases with the acquiescence of religious social service providers, is attempting to go beyond this to detach service delivery from the theological ideas, and the personal and communal practices, which sustain it. The combination of shortcomings of the economic incentive design of the contacting arrangements and lack of appreciation of the religious dimensions of the organizations involved are currently leading to erosion of quality of client service, inflexibility, transfer of risk, staffing problems, gender imbalances, and lack of innovation in the sector. There are also important religious threats to the Australian settlement. Better understanding of the religious dimensions would help ensure the efficiency and sustainability of high-quality social services in Australia, to the benefit of the mission of the churches, the government, and many vulnerable people served by the agencies.
Dismissal costs and their impact on employment: Evidence from Australian small and medium enterprises
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-02-2007
Anglican social thought and the shaping of political economy in Britain
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2017
The Oxford handbook of Christianity and economics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 28-02-2014
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199729715.001.0001
Abstract: Publication of this Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics reflects the emergence of economics and religion as a new interdisciplinary field. Most of the questions addressed in the new interdisciplinary field and this volume have been discussed for many years in disciplines such as economics, sociology, development studies philosophy, theologyand history. What is new is bringing together these older discussions so that gainful trade in techniques and ideas can take place. The focus of this volume is the deeper intellectual issues at stake in the encounter between Christian theology and economics, but these issues are highly relevant to contemporary issues.
Economics and biblical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 30-03-2015
DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0053
Abstract: In recent years, cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology have been added to the tool kit of the historical-critical biblical scholar. Economics, and especially contemporary mainstream economics, has not been much utilized by biblical scholars for several reasons. For one thing, contemporary mainstream economics is less familiar to biblical scholars than Marxian or institutional approaches. It is also more mathematically demanding. A number of objections have also been raised to using economic models in this context. One is that the tools of economics are not neutral. However, this is true of any theoretical tool, including the alternatives to contemporary mainstream economic theory. Another one is that religion is a special domain outside the reach of economics. Economists would see this as an illegitimate claim by religion scholars to monopoly rights, and that granting it brings all the usual failings of a monopolized industry. The most common objection, discussed at length in this article, is that contemporary economic models are anachronistic and are not applicable to ancient societies. Rather than excluding contemporary economic analysis, however, one should see how it can offer new perspectives on texts. Economic tools have certainly illuminated contemporary religious behavior and institutions (see, for instance, Iannaccone 1998, cited under General Surveys), so why not ancient religious behavior and institutions? The purpose of this article is to make contemporary mainstream economics more accessible to biblical scholars, including the theoretical tools of rational choice theory, game theory, information economics, and behavioral economics, along with the most sophisticated empirical techniques in the contemporary social sciences. This article excludes many important and interesting social scientific tools that economists have so far not engaged, such as work on cognitive dissonance theory (e.g., Leon Festinger, R. P. Carroll, Gerd Theissen), covenant rather than contract relations (Richard Horsley), kinship in Mediterranean culture (e.g., Bruce Malina, Kenneth Bailey), anthropological studies of taboos (e.g., Mary Douglas), sociological theories of revolution and large-scale social change (e.g., Weber, Durkheim, Norman Gottwald), and postcolonial theory (e.g., Mark Brett). This article draws on a presentation titled “Using Economics in Biblical Studies,” which was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Francisco, a seminar at the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, and a seminar in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney. Thanks to Julien Ogereau, Jacqui Grey, Chris Forbes, Mark Brett, and Roland Boer for discussions and suggestions, with the usual caveat that this does not imply agreement with the views expressed here.
Incentives in on-line education
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
The contribution of structural shocks to Australian unemployment
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2002
Pushing economies (and Students) outside the factor price equalization zone
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-10-2009
Trade, wages and unemployment in the presence of hiring and firing costs
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2002
Adam Smith as theologian
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-02-2011
God and the Market: Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-11-2012
John Henry Newman, Nassau Senior, and the separation of political economy from theology in the nineteenth century
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 11-2001
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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344903
Start Date: 01-2003
End Date: 06-2007
Amount: $107,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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