Department of Economics
211 Haag Hall
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri  64110
U.S.A. 

 

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Education

  • Ph. D. in Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1983

  • M. Phil. in Economics, Rutgers University, 1982

  • Centro di Studi Economici Avanzati, Trieste, Italy1981

  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977‑78

  • Columbia University, New York City, New York1976‑77

  • B. A. in History, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland1972

Books

·          Post Keynesian Price Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

·          A Monetary Theory of Employment by Gardiner C. Means (edited with Warren Samuels), M. E. Sharpe, 1994.

·          Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists 1922 - 1971:  Recollections of Students and Economists (edited), Bodliean Library, Oxford, 1993, (MS. Eng. c. 4819).

·          The Economics of P. W. S. Andrews:  A Collection (edited with Peter E. Earl), Edward Elgar, 1993.

·          Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists (co‑authored with Warren Young), Macmillan, 1993.

·          The Heterodox Economics of Gardiner C. Means:  A Collection (edited with Warren J. Samuels), M. E. Sharpe, 1992.

 

Articles


      ·          “Pasinetti, Keynes and the Multiplier,” Review of Political Economy (with A. B. Trigg), 17.1 (2005).

·          “To be a Heterodox Economist:  The Contested Landscape of American Economics, 1960s and 70s,” Journal of Economic Issues,  38.3 (2004).

·          “The Incoherent Emperor:  A Heterodox Critique of Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory,” Review of Social Economy (with S. Keen), 62.2 (2004).

·          “History and Identity:  The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945 – 1970,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 36 (2004).

·          “Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936:  A History of a Promise that Bounced?” (with E. Tymoigne), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 26 (2003-4).

·          “The Association for Heterodox Economics:  Past, Present, and Future,”  Journal of Australian Political Economy 50 (2002).

·          “Mutual Aid and the Making of Heterodox Economics in Post-War America:  A Post Keynesian View,” History of Economics Review, 35 (2002).

·          “Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundation of Post Keynesian Economics,”  Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26 (2002).

·          “Conference of Socialist Economists and the Emergence of Heterodox Economics in Post-War Britain,” Capital and Class, 75 (2001).

·          "Post Keynesian Pricing Theory 'Reconfirmed'?  A Critical Review of 'Asking about Prices'," (with P. Downward) Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 23 (2001).

·          "The Organizational History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971 - 1995," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 23 (2000).

·         “Inflexible Prices and the Great Depression (in Spanish),” Cuadernos de Economia 19.32 (2000).

·          "Re-Testing Gardiner Means' Evidence on Administered Prices," (with P. Downward) Journal of Economic Issues, 33 (1999).

·          "Administered Price Hypothesis and the Dominance of Neoclassical Price Theory:  The Case of the Industrial Prices Dispute", Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 17 (1999).

·          "Peer Review, the Research Assessment Exercise and the Demise of Non-Mainstream Economics," (with S. Harley) Capital and Class, 66 (1998).

·          "Research Selectivity, Managerialism, and the Academic Labor Process:  the future of nonmainstream economics in U.K. universities," (with S. Harley) Human Relations, 50 (1997).

·          "Philanthropic Foundations and the Rehabilitation of Big Business, 1934 - 1977:  A Case Study of Directed Economic Research," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 15 (1997).

·          "Pricing, the Pricing Model, and Post Keynesian Price Theory," Review of Political Economy 8 (1996).

·          "From Post Keynesian to Historical Price Theory, Part II:  Facts, Theory, and Empirically Grounded Pricing Model," Review of Political Economy 7 (1995).

·          "From Post Keynesian to Historical Price Theory, Part I:  Facts, Theory, and Empirically Grounded Pricing Model," Review of Political Economy 6 (1994).

·          "The Fate of an Errant Hypothesis:  The Normal Cost Prices Doctrine," (with J. Irving‑Lessmann), History of Political Economy 24 (1992).

·          "The History of the Oxford Challenge to Marginalism, 1934 ‑ 1952," Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro Quarterly Review 179 (1991).

·          "Marginalist Controversy and Post Keynesian Price Theory," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 13 (1990 ‑ 91).

·          "From Multi‑Industry Planning to Keynesian Planning:  Gardiner Means, the American Keynesians, and National Economic Planning at the National Resources Committee," Journal of Policy History, 2 (1990).

·          "The Modern Corporation and Gardiner Means's Critique of Neoclassical Economics," The Journal of Economic Issues 24 (1990).  Reprinted in Clark, T. (ed.)  2005.  Corporate Governance. London:  Routledge.

·          "G. C. Means's Doctrine of Administered Prices," Thames Papers in Political Economy, Summer (1989).  Also published in Theory and Policy in Political Economy:  Essays in Pricing Distribution and Growth, P. Arestis and Y. Kitromilides (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1990.

·          "The Power of Ideas and the Impact of One Man:  Alfred Eichner, 1937 ‑ 1988," (with M. Groves and W. Milberg), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 11 (1989).

·          "D. H. MacGregor and the Firm:  A Neglected Chapter in the History of the Post Keynesian Theory of the Firm," British Review of Economic Issues, 11 (1989).

·          "A New Dealer in Agriculture:  G. C. Means and the Writing of Industrial Prices," Review of Social Economy, 46 (1988).

·          "A Post Keynesian Appraisal of the Contestability Criterion," (with J. Davies), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 11 (1988).

·          "A Post Keynesian Approach to a Theory of Industrial Organization," The Keizai Hyoron, (June, 1987), (in Japanese).

·          "P. W. S. Andrews's Theory of Competitive Oligopoly:  A New Interpretation," (with J. Irving‑Lessmann, P. Earl, and J. Davies), British Review of Economic Issues, 8 (1986).

·          "Post Keynesian View of Average Direct Costs:  A Critical Evaluation of the Theory and the Empirical Evidence," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 8 (1986).

·          "'Full Cost' Prices, Classical Price Theory, and Long Period Method Analysis:  A Critical Evaluation," Metroeconomica, 37 (1985).

·          "The Marginalist Controversy and the Demise of Full Cost Pricing," Journal of Economic Issues, 18 (1984).

·          "Full Cost Pricing:  A New Wine in a New Bottle," Australian Economic Papers, 23 (1984).

·          "The Oxford Challenge to Marshallian Supply and Demand:  The History of the Oxford Economists' Research Group," Oxford Economic Papers 33 (1981).

 

Chapters/Entries in Books
 

·          “Philip W. S. Andrews.”  In Dictionary of British Economists, edited by Donald Rutherford, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.

·          “David H. Macgregor.”  In Dictionary of British Economists, edited by Donald Rutherford, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.

·          "Sidney Ball."  In New Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford University Press, 2004.

·          “Theory Foundation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics.”  In Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique, edited by P. Downward, Routledge, 2003.

·          “Pricing and Prices.”  In The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, edited by J. King, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003.

·          “Post Keynesian Economics (1930 – 2000):  An Emerging Heterodox Economic Theory of Capitalism.” In Understanding Capitalism, edited by D. Dowd, Pluto Press, 2002.

·          “Means, Gardiner (1898 – 1988).”  In Biographical Dictionary of Management, vol. 2, edited by M. Witzel, Thoemmes Press, 2001.

·          “Macroeconomics, post-Keynesian microeconomics foundations,” “Mark-up, post-Keynesian literature,” and “Microeconomics, post-Keynesian.”  In Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences, vol. 2, edited by J. Michie, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

·          "Gardiner C. Means."  In International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2nd edition, edited by M. Warner, Thomson Learning, 2001.  Reprinted in The IEBM Handbook of Economics, edited by W. Lazonick, Thomson, 2002.

·          "Gardiner C. Means, 1896 ‑ 1988."  In Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd edition, Philip Arestis and Malcolm C. Sawyer (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000.

·          "Caroline Ware."  (with W. J. Samuels)  In A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, edited by R. W. Dimand, M. A. Dimand, and E. Forget, Edward Elgar, 2000.

·          “On the Gensis of Post Keynesian Economics:  Alfred S. Eichner, Joan Robinson and the Founding of Post Keynesian Economics” (edited).  In Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 18-C, Twentieth-Century Economics, JAI/Elsevier, 2000.

·          "Alfred S. Eichner, Joan Robinson and the Founding of Post Keynesian Economics."  In Twentieth-Century Economics, JAI/Elsevier, 2000.

·          "Economics Divided:  The Limitations of Peer Review in a Paradigm Bound Social Science," (with S. Harley).  In The New Higher Education:  Issues and Directions for the Post-Dearing University, edited by D. Jary and M. Parker, Staffordshire University Press, 1998.

·          "Gardiner Means and the Dissent of Administered Prices."  In Economics and its Discontents:  Twentieth Century Dissenting Economists, edited by R. Holt and S. Pressman, Edward Elgar, 1998.

·          "Gardiner C. Means."  In International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, edited by M. Warner, Thomson Business Press, 1996. Reprinted in IBEM Handbook of Management Thinkers, edited by M. Warner, International Thomson Publishing, 1998.

·          "Pricing and the Business Enterprise."  In Political Economy for the 21st Century:  Contemporary Views on the Trend of Economics, edited by C. J. Whalen, M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

·          "Means and the Making of a Anti-Keynesian Monetary Theory of Employment."  In Gardiner C. Means's A Monetary Theory of Employment, edited by W. Samuels and F. Lee, M. E. Sharpe, 1994.

·          "Gardiner C. Means" (with Warren J. Samuels).  In The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, W. J. Samuels, G. Hodgson, and M. Tool (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994.

·          "Full Cost Pricing".  In The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, W. J. Samuels, G. Hodgson, and M. Tool(eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994.

·          "Administered Prices".  In The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, W. J. Samuels, G. Hodgson, and M. Tool (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994.

·          "Facts, Theory and the Pricing Foundation of Post Keynesian Price Theory".  In Dynamics of the Firm, Strategies of Pricing and Organisation, edited by J. Groenewegen, Edward Elgar, 1993.

·          "Introduction".  In Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists 1922 - 1971:  Recollections of Students and Economists, Bodliean Library, Oxford, 1993.

·          "Philip Walter Sawford Andrews, 1914 ‑ 1971".  In The Economics of  P. W. S. Andrews:  A Collection, edited by Frederic S. Lee and Peter E. Earl, Edward Elgar, 1993.

·          "Gardiner C. Means 1896 ‑ 1988" (with Warren J. Samuels).  For the Introduction of The Heterodox Economics of Gardiner C. Means: A Collection, edited by Frederic S. Lee and Warren J. Samuels, published by M. E. Sharpe, 1992.

·          "Gardiner C. Means, 1896 ‑ 1988."  In Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, Philip Arestis and Malcolm C. Sawyer (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992.

·          "Whatever Became of the Full Cost Principle?" in Economics in Disarray, P. Wiles and G. Routh (eds.), Basil Blackwell, 1984.

 

Notes, Reviews, and other Publications
 

·          Informational Directory for Heterodox Economists:  Journals, Book Series, Websites, and Graduate and Undergraduate Programs, compiled and edited with S. Cohn, G. Schneider, and P. Quick, (January 2005).

·          “Undergraduate Programs for Heterodox Economists,” URPE Newsletter, 36.2 (Winter 2005).

·          Review of Post Keynesian Econometrics, Microeconomics and the Theory of the Firm edited by S. C. Dow and J. Hillard, International Journal of Social Economics, forthcoming.

·          “Predestined to Heterodoxy or How I became a Heterodox Economist,” EAEPE Newsletter, 32 (July, 2004).

·          Review of The Crisis in Economics:  The Post-Autistic Economics Movement:  the first 600 days by Edward Fullbrook, Journal of Economic Issues, 38.3 (2004).

·          “Economics as a Disabling Myth,” Industrial Worker 101.2 (February, 2004).

·          Review of A History of Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936 by John King, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25 (2003).

·          Review of Economics and its Enemies:  Two Centuries of Anti-Economics by William O. Coleman, History of Economics Review 38 (2003).

·          “Heterodox Journals,” URPE Newsletter, 35.1 (Fall, 2003).

·          “Heterodox Book Series.” URPE Newsletter, 35.1 (Fall, 2003)

·          “Graduate Programs for Radical Political Economists.” URPE Newsletter, 34.1 (Fall, 2002).

·          “History of Heterodox Economics as a History of Failure:  Comment on Geoff Hodgson,” EAEPE Newsletter, 26 (July, 2001).

·          Review of The Market:  Ethics, Knowledge and Politics by John O’Neill, Capital and Class, 71 (2000).

·          Review of Economics and the Historian by Thomas G. Rawski et. al., Review of Radical Political Economics, 31 (1999).

·          "Alfred Eichner, Joan Robinson and the Founding of Post Keynesian Economics, 1969 - 1983—summary with discussion," History of Economic Thought Newsletter, 61 (Winter, 1998).

·          "Post Keynesian Pricing Theory 'Reconfirmed'?  A Critical Review of `Asking about Prices’," (with P. Downward), Staffordshire University Business School, Division of Economics Working Paper 98.13.

·          Review of Post-Keynesian Economic Theory edited by Paul Wells, Review of Radical Political Economics, 30 (1998).

·          Letter, The Times Higher Education Supplement, (January 30, 1998).

·          Letter, PKSG Newsletter (December 1997).

·          "Research Assessment Exercise and Dictating Economic Research:  The Case of Economics," (with S. Harley) Radical Philosophy, 85 (1997).  Reprinted as "The Economic Cleansing of Economics," Lib Ed:  A magazine for the liberation of learning, 29 (Autumn 1998).

·          Review of Competition, Technology and Money:  Classical and Post-Keynesian Perspectives edited by Mark A. Glick, Review of Radical Political Economics, 29 (1997).

·          Review of Beyond Competition:  The Economics of Mergers and Monopoly Power by Thomas Karier, Review of Radical Political Economics, 29 (1997).

·          Review of Ownership and Control:  Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century by M. M. Blair and Managers vs. Owners:  The Struggle for Corporate Control in American Democracy by A. Kaufman, L, Zacharias, and M. Karson, Journal of Economic Issues, 30 (1996).

·          "PKSG Attendance Data," PKSG Newsletter (October 1996).

·          "The Future of Post Keynesian Economics:  A Response," PKSG          Newsletter (October 1996).

·          "Philanthropic Foundations and the Rehabilitation of Big Business, 1934 - 1977:  A Case Study of Directed Economic Research," Department of Economics, De Montfort University, Discussion Paper 95-08, December 1995.

·          "The Academic Labour Process and the Research Assessment Exercise: Academic Diversity and the Future of Non-Mainstream Economics in UK Universities" (with S. Harley), Leicester Business School Occasional Paper 24, 1995.

·          Conversation with J. E. King in J. E. King (ed.), Conversations with Post Keynesians, Macmillan Press, 1995.

·          "The Death of Post Keynesian Economics?" PKSG Newsletter (January 1995).

·          Review of Income Distribution in a Corporate Economy by Russell Rimmer, The Manchester School, 62 (1994).

·          Review of Pricing & Growth:  A Neo-Ricardian Approach by Stanley Bober, The Eastern Economic Journal, 20 (1994).

·          Review of Thorstein Veblen and his Critics, 1891 - 1963 by Rick Tilman, History of Economic Ideas, (1993).

·          "Directing Economic Research, Philanthropic Foundations and the Rehabilitation of Big Business, 1930 - 1980--summary with discussion," History of Economic Thought Newsletter, 51 (Autumn, 1993).

·          Review of Theories of Political Economy by J. A. Caporaso and D. P. Levine, Journal of Economic Issues, 27 (1993).

·          Review of Mr Sraffa on Joint Production and other Essays by B. Schefold, and Essays on Piero Sraffa:  Critical Perspectives on the Revival of Classical Theory, edited by K. Bharadwaj and B. Schefold, British Review of Economic Issues, 14 (1992).

·          "Philip Walter Sawford Andrews:  An Industrial Economist and Creator of a Realistic Theory of Prices," Leicester Business School Occasional Paper 6, 1992.

·          Tributes in the Memory of Alfred S. Eichner, (private printing), 1991.

·          Review of A Century of Economics:  100 Years of the Royal Economic Society and the Economic Journal, edited by J. D. Hey and D. Winch, British Review of Economic Issues, 13 (1991).

·          "The Marginalist Controversy and the History of the Normal Cost Prices Doctrine," Les Cahiers d'Economie Industrielle, Working Paper, 1990‑6.

·          "Symposium:  The Marginalist Controversy and Post Keynesian Price  Theory:  Introduction," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 13 (1990 ‑ 91).

·          “The Full Cost Principle After 50 Years:  A Review of its History and Speculation of its Future,” Working Papers in Economics and Political Economy 89-3, Roosevelt University (1989).

·          “The Modern Corporation and Gardiner Means’ Critique of Neoclassical Economics,” Working Papers in Economics and Political Economy 89-1, Roosevelt University (1989).

·          "Costs, Increasing Costs, and Technical Progress:  Response to the Critics," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 10 (1988).

·         “G. C. Means’s Doctrine of Administered Prices,” Working Papers in Economics and Political Economy 88-2, Roosevelt University (1988).

·         “A New Dealer in Agriculture:  G. C. Means and the Writing of Industrial Prices,” Working Papers in Economics and Political Economy 87-1, Roosevelt University (1987).

·         "Comment:  Reply to Basile and Salvadori," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 9 (1986).

·          "Kalecki's Pricing Theory:  Two Comments," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 8 (1985).

·          "The Empirical Basis for Constructing Post Keynesian Models," (with A. S. Eichner), Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia University, Working Paper 2, 1978.

 

Unpublished Manuscripts and Papers and Works in Progress

·          "Market Governance in the American Gunpowder Industry, 1865 - 1880"

·          "Pricing and Big Business:  The Brookings Institution Contribution to the Doctrine of Administered Prices"

·          "Grounding Post Keynesian Price Theory:  Recollections of Economists"

·          Prepared a new edition of "On the Relations Between Cost and Quantity Produced" by P. Sraffa (with G. Langer)

 

Donated Collections

·          Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists 1922 - 1971:  Recollections of Students and Economists, Bodliean Library, Oxford, (MSS. Eng. c. 4820-23), 1993.

·          The Alfred S. Eichner - Joan Robinson Correspondence, 1969 - 1976, Modern Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge, 1994.

 

Dissertation

 "Full Cost Pricing:  An Historical and Theoretical Analysis"

 

Areas of Teaching

  • Microeconomics

  • Industrial Organization

  • History of Economics‑‑20th Century U.S. Economic History, 1870 - 1940

  • Mathematical Economics

  • Business Economics

Scholarships and Research Grants

·          The Dirksen Congressional Center, Congressional Research Award 2000

·          Economic and Social Research Council, Component of a Research Centre Grant, 1999

·          Hagley Museum and Library, Grant-in-Aid, 1996

·          Hagley Museum and Library Grant-in-Aid, 1995

·          The British Academy, Small Personal Research Grant, 1993

·          The Nuffield Foundation Social Science, Small Grants Scheme,1993

·          Research Grant from the Rockefeller, Archive Center, 1991

·          Roosevelt University Research Leave,1987

·          National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant, 1986

·          Beeke‑Levy Research Fellowship, 1986

·          Rutgers University Scholarship, 1980‑81

·          Walter C. Russell Graduate Scholarship, 1979

 

Awards

·          Gunnar Myrdal Prize (awarded annually for the best monograph on a theme broadly in accord with the EAEPE theoretical perspectives), 2000

·          Helen Potter Award in Social Economics (given for the best article appearing in Review of Social Economy),1988

 

Conference Participation

  • Association for Heterodox Economics 4th ESRC Funded Post-Graduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods 2005—presented a paper on ‘Grounded Theory in Heterodox Research:  Pricing Theory’.

  • ASSA Meetings 2005—presented a paper on ‘Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments:  Suggested Methodologies’ and ‘Challenging Mas-Colell and Varian:  Teaching Heterodox Microeconomics.’

  • EAEPE Conference 2004—presented a paper on ‘Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments:  Suggested Methodologies’.

  • Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics 2004—presented a paper on ‘The Status of Heterodox Economics in the Profession: The Case of the United Kingdom.’

  • 8th International Post Keynesian Conference 2004—presented a paper on ‘Post Keynesian Price Theory:  Critical but Constructive Dialogue’.

  • Association for Institutionalist Thought Meetings 2004—presented a paper on ‘Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments:  Suggested Methodologies;’ and chaired and a discussant of a session on ‘Institutionalist and Marxist Theory and Methodology.’

  • Missouri Philological Association Meetings 2004—presented a paper on ‘Trade Unions and Higher Education:  The Case of NATFHE in the United Kingdom.’

  • Missouri Valley Economic Association Meeting 2004—presented papers on ‘Challenging Mas-Colell and Varian:  Teaching Heterodox Microeconomics,’ and ‘The Status of Heterodox Economics in the Profession:  The Case of the United Kingdom;’ and chaired a session on ‘Topics in Heterodox Economics’.

  • Association for Heterodox Economics 3nd ESRC Funded Post-Graduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods 2004—presented a paper on ‘Grounded Theory in Heterodox Research:  Pricing Theory’.

  • ASSA Meetings 2004—presented a paper on ‘The Status of Heterodox Economics in the Profession:  The Case of the United Kingdom’ and on ‘History and Identity:  The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945 – 1970’.

  • History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 2003—presented a paper on ‘To Be A Heterodox Economist:  The Contested Landscape of American Economics, 1960s & 1970s’.

  • ICAPE Conference 2003—presented a paper on ‘Structural and Organizational Foundations for Heterodox Microeconomic Theory’.

  • Association for Institutional Thought Meetings 2003—presented a paper on ‘Heterodox Production Models:  A Critical Examination.’

  • ASSA Meetings 2003—presented a paper on ‘Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory:  Should Heterodox Economists Accord it Any Respect?’ and ‘To Be a Heterodox Economist:The Contested Landscape of American Economics Circa 1970’.

  • Association for Heterodox Economics 2nd Post-Graduate Training Workshop 2002—presented a paper on ‘The Methodology of Heterodox Microeconomics’.

  • EAEPE Conference 2002—presented a paper on ‘The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945-1970.’

  • Conference on the History of Heterodox Economics in the 20th Century 2002—presented a paper on ‘History and Identity:  The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945 – 1970’

  • Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics 2002—presented a paper on ‘Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory:  Should Heterodox Economists Accord it any Respect?’

  • Post Keynesian Conference 2002—presented a paper on ‘Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory: Should Heterodox Economists Accord it any Respect?’

  • Association for Institutional Thought Meetings 2002—presented a paper on ‘History and Identity:  The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945 – 1970.’

  • ASSA Meetings 2002—presented a paper on ‘The New Left, Conference of Socialist Economists, and the Emergence of Heterodox Economics in the U.K., 1945 – 1975’.

  • The HetEcon Advanced Training Workshop 2001--presented a paper on ‘Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundation of Post Keynesian Economics’.

  • Missouri Valley Economic Association Conference 2001--presented a paper on ‘Market Governance in the American Gunpowder Industry, 1865-1880’ and discussed Post Keynesian Economics.

  • ASSA Meetings 2001—presented a paper On ‘Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynesian Microeconomics’.

  • EAEPE Conference 2000--presented a paper on 'Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynesian Microeconomics'.

  • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Conference 2000—discussed Post Keynesian Economics.

  • The Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics:  The Other Economics Conference 2000--presented a paper on 'The Emergence of Heterodox Economics in Post-War Britain:  The Case of the Conference of Socialist Economists'.

  • Cambridge Realist Workshop Reunion Conference 2000--presented a paper on 'Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynesian Microeconomics'.

  • EAEPE Conference 1999--presented a paper on 'The Social History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971-1995'.

  • Economic Crisis:  Theory and History 1999--presented a paper on 'Inflexible Prices and the Great Depression'.

  • History of Economic Thought Conference 1998‑‑presented a paper on 'Alfred Eichner, Joan Robinson, and the Founding of Post Keynesian Economics, 1969 - 1981'.

  • Scottish Economic Society Conference 1998--presented a paper on 'Economics Divided:  The Limitations of Peer Review in a Paradigm Bound Social Science'.

  • Royal Economic Society Conference 1998--presented a paper on 'Realism, Econometrics, and Re-testing Gardiner Means's Evidence on Administered Prices".

  • ASSA Meetings 1998‑‑presented papers on 'Market Governance in the American Gunpowder Industry' and on 'Administered Price Hypothesis and the Dominance of Neoclassical Price Theory'.

  • HOPE Conference "On the Transformation of American Economics:  From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism" 1997—presented a paper on 'Academic Misconduct, Administered Price Hypothesis, and the Dominance of Neoclassical Price Theory'.

  • The Dilemmas of Mass Higher Education Conference 1996--presented a paper on 'The Limitations of Peer Review in a Paradigm Bound Social Science:  The Case of Economics in UK Universities'.

  • Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference 1995--paper presented on 'The Research Assessment Exercise and Academic Diversity:   Non-Mainstream Economics in Britain's Universities'.

  • International Labour Process Conference 1995--presented a paper on 'The Research Assessment

  • Exercise and Academic Diversity:  Non-Mainstream Economics in Britain's Universities'.

  • ASSA Meetings 1995--presented a paper on 'Pricing and the Business Enterprise'.

  • Royal Economic Society Conference 1994--presented a paper on 'Full Cost Pricing Models, Quasi-Long-Period Prices, and Convergence:  A Note'; and chaired a session on 'The Nature of Markets'.

  • ASSA Convention 1994‑‑presented a paper on 'Directing Economic Research:  Philanthropic Foundations and the Rehabilitation of Big Business,1930‑1980' and on 'Post Keynesian Pricing Model and Production Prices'.

  • History of Economic Thought Conference 1993‑‑presented a paper on 'Directing Economic Research:  Philanthropic Foundations and the Rehabilitation of Big Business, 1930‑1980'.

  • Seventh Malvern Political Economy Conference 1993‑‑presented a paper on 'Facts, Theory and the Pricing Foundation of Post Keynesian Price Theory' and partake in a round table discussion of Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis by M. Lavoie.

  • Conference of Socialist Economists 1993‑‑presented paper on 'Post Keynesian Pricing Model and Production Prices:  A Note'.

  • 13th Annual Conference of the Association of Post Keynesian Studies 1992‑‑presented a paper on 'Facts, Theory and the Pricing Foundation of Post Keynesian Price Theory'.

  • ASSA Convention 1992‑‑presented a paper on 'Facts, Theory and the Pricing Foundation of Post Keynesian Price Theory'.

  • Royal Economic Society Conference 1991‑‑presented a paper on 'The Fate of an Errant Hypothesis:  The Normal Cost Prices Doctrine'.

  • 5th Mediterranean Summer School on Industrial Organization 1990‑‑presented a paper on 'The Marginalist Controversy and the History of the Normal Cost Prices Doctrine' and gave a lecture on `Post Keynesian Foundation of Industrial Organization'.

  • Midwest Economics Association Meeting 1990‑‑presented a paper on 'The Fate of an Errant Hypothesis:  The Normal Cost Prices Doctrine'.

  • ASSA Convention 1989‑‑chair for the session 'Industry vs. Finance in a Mature Capitalist Economy'; presented a paper on 'The Full Cost Principle After Fifty Years'; and was a discussant for the session 'The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: The Heterodox Perspective of Alfred Eichner'.

  • Second Review of Political Economy Conference August 1989‑‑presented a paper on 'The Full Cost Principle After Fifty Years'.

  • ASSA Convention 1988‑‑chair for the session 'The Megacorp and Markup Pricing:  Papers in Honor of Alfred Eichner'; and presented a paper on 'Schisms in Economic Theory and Policy in the Latter Years of the New Deal:  Gardiner Means and the Keynesians'.

  • ASSA Convention 1987‑‑chair for a session on Post Keynesian monetary economics; discussant in sessions on Post Keynesian industrial organization and on Marxist approaches to industrial organization; and presented a paper on 'Administered Prices:  A Doctrine in Search of a Home'.

  • ASSA Convention 1986‑‑discussant in a session on state and economy:  a comparative  perspective; chair for a session on money and credit; presented a paper on 'The Pricing Foundations of Post Keynesian Price Theory'; and presented a paper on 'Production as a Circular Process and Pasinetti's Analysis of Production, Prices and Profit'.

  • Regional Conference on Current Issues in Political Economy, October 1986‑‑discussant/moderator in a session on restructuring in basic industry and presented a paper on 'G. C. Means and Administered Prices:  A Biographical Study'.   

  • ASSA Convention 1985‑‑discussant in a session on economic change and presented a paper on 'A Post Keynesian Approach to a Theory of Industrial Organization'.

  • ASSA Convention 1984‑‑discussant in a session on corporate concentration and presented a paper on 'Full Cost Prices, Long Period Method of Analysis, and Classical Price Theory'.

  • URPE Western Regional Conference 1983--presented a paper on 'Post Keynesian and Marxist Economic Theory'

 

Organizing External Seminars and Conferences
 

·          ICAPE Conference on The Future of Heterodox Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, June 5 – 7, 2003.

·          Conference on the History of Heterodox Economics in the 20th Century, University of Missouri-Kansas City, October 3 – 5, 2002.

·          Association for Heterodox Economics, The Other Economic Conference, London, June 27-28, 2000.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 14, 2000.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, South Bank University, January 28, 2000.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, University of the West of  England, October 29, 1999.

·          Association for Heterodox Economics Fringe Conference, University of Nottingham, March 30, 1999.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, University of North London, January 29, 1999.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, October 2, 1998.

·          Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Greenwich University, January 30, 1998.

 
 

Other Conference and Seminar Activities
 

  • UMKC 8th International Post Keynesian Summer School, June 19-24, 2004—presented a lecture on ‘Introduction to Post Keynesian Microeconomics’.

  • All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, May 2, 2004—lecture on ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’.

  • UMKC Post Keynesian Summer School, June 22-28, 2002—presented a lecture on ‘Past Contributions to Post Keynesian Microeconomic Theory’.

  • AFEE/UMKC Summer School, June 23-28, 2001—presented a lecture on ‘The Problem with Pricing’.

  • Leicester Secular Society, Leicester, March 19, 2000--presented a paper on 'A Victorian Institution in the Twenty-First Century:  The past, present and future of the Leicester Secular Society'.

  • Leicester Secular Society, Leicester, January 23, 2000--presented a paper on 'Inflexible Prices and the Great Depression'.

  • Leicester Secular Society, Leicester, January 9, 2000--presented a paper on 'The History of the Leicester Secular Society in the Twentieth Century'.

  • Business History Unit Seminar, London School of Economics, October 11, 1999--presented a paper on 'Market Governance in the American Gunpowder Industry, 1865 - 1880'.

  • Leicester Secular Society Letters Lecture, Leicester City Library, May 11, 1999--presented a paper on 'History of the Leicester Secular Society'.

  • Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, October 2, 1998--presented a paper on 'Alfred S. Eichner, Joan Robinson and the Founding of Post Keynesian Economics'.

  • Critical Realist Workshop Seminar, Cambridge University, May 11, 1998--presented a paper on 'Critical Realism, Grounded Theory, and Post Keynesian Economics'.

  • Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Greenwich University, January 30, 1998--presented a paper on 'Realism, Econometrics, and re-Testing Gardiner's Means's Evidence on Administered Prices'.

  • Gunpowder Mills Study Group, Institute of Historical Research, London, May 24, 1997--presented a paper on 'The Gunpowder Trade Association, 1872 - 1902'.

  • Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, August 1, 1996--presented a paper on 'The Gunpowder Trade Association'.

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, February 28, 1996--presented a paper on 'The Academic Labour Process and the Research Assessment Exercise:  Academic Diversity and the Future of Non-Mainstream Economics in UK Universities'.

  • University of the West of England, Bristol, November, 1994--presented a paper on 'Post KeynesianPrice Theory'.

  • Exeter University, United Kingdom, April, 1993‑‑presented a paper on 'From Oxford Political Economy to Oxford Economics, 1900 ‑ 1939'.

  • Lancaster University, United Kingdom, February, 1991‑‑ presented a paper on 'The Fate of an Errant Hypothesis:  The Normal Cost Prices Doctrine'.

  • Post‑Keynesian Economics Study Group, London, November, 1990‑‑presented a paper on 'Marginalist Controversy and Post Keynesian Price Theory'.

  • University of Maine, Orono, July 1986‑‑presented a paper on 'Post Keynesian Price Theory'.

  • Acadia University and Dalhousie University, Canada, March 1986‑‑presented a paper on 'Post Keynesian Economics'.

 

Membership in Economic Associations
 

·          Association for Evolutionary Economics

·          Association for Heterodox Economics

·          Association for Institutionalist Thought

·          Association for Social Economics

·          Business History Conference

·          Conference of Socialist Economists

·          European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

·          European Society for the History of Economic Thought

·          History of Economic Thought Society of Australia

·          History of Economic Thought Group of the United Kingdom

·          History of Economics Society

·          Progressive Economics Forum

·          Union for Radical Political Economics

 

Other Activities

Editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletters

·          Issue 1:  September 29, 2004

·          Issue 2:  October 15, 2004

·          Issue 3:  November 5, 2004

·          Issue 4:  November 18, 2004

·          Issue 5:  December 15, 2004

·          Issue 6:  January 21, 2005

·          Issue 7:  February 11, 2005

Book Series Editor of “Advances in Heterodox Economics” published by University of Michigan Press, 2003 -

On the Managing Board of Editors of Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

On the Board of Director of The Association for Evolutionary Economics (2004 - )

Trustee for the Association for Social Economics (2005 - )

Formerly on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Issues

Referee for:

·          British Review of Economic Issues.

·          Cambridge Journal of Economics.

·          Capital and Class.

·          Economic Issues.

·          International Review of Applied Economics.

·          Journal of Economic Issues.

·          Journal of Economic Psychology.

·          Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

·          Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

·          Management Accounting Research.

·          Metroeconomia.

·          Oxford Economic Papers.

·          Review of Political Economy.

·          Review of Social Economy

Purchases of Economic Material for the UMKC Library 2004, Friends of the Library UMKC, Back issues of 6 heterodox economic journals, $2,000. 2002, University Libraries UMKC, Reference set in the history of economics, $1,100. 

 

Visiting Lecturer, Professor, or Scholar
 

·          Visiting Professor, School of Economics, The University Autonomous of Sinaloa, Mexico, November 19 – 27, 2004; as part of the 52nd anniversary of the School of Economics I gave a lecture on “Critiquing Neoclassical Microeconomics and the Heterodox Alternative” and a series of lectures on “Heterodox Microeconomics”.

·          Visiting Professor, Facultad de Economia, Division de Estudios de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, March 10 – 14, 2003; gave a week of lectures on heterodox microeconomic theory.

·          Bernandin Haskell Visiting Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, March 9-14, 2000; gave a lecture on "Cartels in Action:  Market Governance in the American Gunpowder Industry, 1865 - 1880" and on "Inflexible Prices and the Great Depression".

·          Visiting Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, August 30 to September 3, 1999; gave a week of lectures and discussion on Post Keynesian microeconomics.

·          Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom, September 1990 to August 1991; taught a range of undergraduate modules.

·          Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States, August 1989 to January 1990; taught a graduate course in advanced microeconomic theory with the subject matter being neo‑Ricardian price theory.

 

Teaching and Research Experience

  •   Professor, Fall 2000 - Present

Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri.  Teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses on microeconomics, heterodox economic theory, radical economics, and American economic theory; and supervise M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations.  I supervise the M.A. economics program and am the admission director for the IPhD program.

  •   Reader in Economics, Fall 1991 ‑ Summer 2000

Department of Economics, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.  Teaching on the B.A. Economics and B.Sc. Economics and Management Science programmes includes microeconomics, industrial economics, American economic history, business economics, economic analysis, political economy, and mathematical economics; teaching on the M.A. Economics programme includes Post Keynesian economics, industrial economics, and supervising dissertations; and service teaching for the Business Faculty includes business economics.  I have been a member of the University, Business Faculty, and Social Science Faculty Research Committees; and I am a member of the University Independent Study Committee.  I have also been a member of the Department's Staff Selection Committee, an Appraiser for six members of the Economics Department, and Course Leader for the M.A. Economics programme.  I drafted the M.A. Economics programme and it received ESRC approval.  I have organized department and inter-faculty seminars.

  •  Associate Professor, Fall 1984 ‑ Spring 1991

Department of Economics, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill.  Teaching included microeconomics, industrial organization, U.S. economic history, 1870 - 1940, and history of economic thought.  I taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level and supervised M.A. dissertations.  I also supervised the Master's Degree Program in Economics and was a member of the Graduate Council.  Finally I initiated a reorganization of the Master's program and established a working relationship between the Department of Economics and the University of East London, London, England, which permitted the Department to supervise external Ph. D. candidates in economics who resided in Chicago.

  •  Lecturer, Fall 1981 ‑ Spring 1984

Department of Economics, University of California‑Riverside, Ca.  Teaching included microeconomics, industrial organization, and quantitative economics.  I taught courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level.  I was one of the examiners for the Ph. D. microeconomics, quantitative, and industrial organization examinations.  I also supervised Ph. D. dissertations.

  •   Lecturer, Fall 1979 ‑ Spring 1980

Department of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

  •   Teaching Assistant, Fall 1978 ‑ Spring 1980

Department of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

  •   Industrial Economic Consultant, Summer 1979

Paine, Webber, Mitchell Hutchins Inc., New York City, NY.

  •    Research Assistant, July 1978 ‑ February 1979

  •   Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia University, New York City, New York.

 

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