The economist as gadfly : The machinations of Lord John Vaizey’s life
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: It has been 25 years since Lord John Vaizey, the English economist and educationist passed away in July 1984. Today, Vaizey is almost a forgotten figure in modern British history and even more in the fields of political economy and economics of education where he first made his mark. His work is now rarely cited and, even in political histories of the Thatcher decade, or the travails of the Labour governments before then, his name rarely reappears. This paper reassesses his life, especially the last decade of his life when Vaizey, basked in the limelight, and enjoyed some of the glittering prizes. It was a decade when Vaizey took some major ideological turns, one of the most controversial being his decision to leave the Labour party after 30 years of membership. The paper revisits the reasons why Vaizey renounced democratic socialism, Keynesianism and, along with that, the beguiling promises of social science. It reflected his peculiar interest in political failure along with disillusionment in democratic socialism. The switch meant that this Cambridge-trained economist who described himself once as ‘a deeply flawed puritan, dedicated to work, self improvement, the cultivation of the intellect, goodness and truth’ had to convert, albeit reluctantly, to monetarism and ditch the post-war Keynesian consensus.
- Description: 2003007362
Political aspects of innovation
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia : 10th-11th December 2007 p. 93-102
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- Description: This paper aims to identify within capitalism the “political aspects” that enhance, but also can undermine, the positive transformational power of innovation policies. As such, this paper follows the approach of Micha
- Description: 2003005192
Political aspects of innovation
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Research Policy Vol. 38, no. 7 (2009), p. 1117-1124
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- Description: "Political aspects" that enhance, but also undermine, the positive transformational power of public innovation policies are examined. As such, this paper follows Michał Kalecki in his 1943 paper that identifies the "political aspects" which enhance and undermine the positive transformational power of Keynesian full employment policies. Similarly, this paper provides a policy framework that identifies what government and business support as innovation policies. The role of innovation stems from Schumpeter's long-run perspective, but incorporates the more dynamic cyclical short-term and trend perspectives of Kalecki. This paper critiques the strategy of public innovation policy in general and derives policy implications. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Sustainable development
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, Second Edition p. 515-523
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- Description: 'The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics is a comprehensive guide to economic analyses in the tradition of Keynes and the so-called Cambridge (UK) school of economics. The coverage of themes and different theoretical orientations within Post Keynesianism is remarkable and the quality of the various entries is impressive. John King's invisible hand is responsible for a minimum of overlaps and an optimum in quality and comprehensibility. This book has already proved to be of interest to a wide range of economists and can be expected to continue to do so for a long time to come.' - Heinz D. Kurz, University of Graz, Austria. © J.E. King 2012. All rights reserved.
Economic crisis and policy response formulation in Malaysia
- Authors: Doraisami, Anita
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 41st Australian Conference of Economists
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- Description: Since achieving Independence in 1957, Malaysia has experienced three recessions, each of which emanated from different sources of vulnerability. This paper analyses the policy response to economic crisis in particular, the role of the New Economic Policy (NEP) which was introduced in 1970 and which remains in force today. It concludes that in spite of the diversity in the proximate causes of the crises, the policy response was consistent and sought to ensure that NEP objectives were paramount and the vested interest that had emerged as a result of the NEP and which were linked to the ruling party were preserved.
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A political economy methodology in modelling the transition process
- Authors: Marangos, John
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Global Business and Economics Review Vol. 5, no. 2 (2003), p. 197-225
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- Description: A political economy approach to the transition process required the incorporation not only of the economic structure but also of the political and ideological structures. Consequently, an application of a political economy methodology to the transition process gives rise to alternative models of transition. Each model confronts the elements of the transition process - economic analysis; what is a good society? speed; political structure; ideological structure and whether the initial conditions were a concern - with different solutions, making it meaningful to distinguish between alternative models.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000659
On gambling research, social science and the consequences of commercial gambling
- Authors: Livingstone, Charles , Adams, Peter , Cassidy, Rebecca , Markham, Francis , Rintoul, Angela
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Gambling Studies Vol. 18, no. 1 (2018), p. 56-68
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- Description: Social, political, economic, geographic and cultural processes related to the significant growth of the gambling industries have, in recent years, been the subject of a growing body of research. This body of research has highlighted relationships between social class and gambling expenditure, as well as the design, marketing and location of gambling products and businesses. It has also demonstrated the regressive nature of much gambling revenue, illuminating the influence that large gambling businesses have had on government policy and on researchers, including research priorities, agendas and outcomes. Recently, critics have contended that although such scholarship has produced important insights about the operations and effects of gambling businesses, it is ideologically motivated and lacks scientific rigour. This response explains some basic theoretical and disciplinary concepts that such critique misunderstands, and argues for the value of social, political, economic, geographic and cultural perspectives to the broader, interdisciplinary field of gambling research. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Angela Rintoul” is provided in this record**