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Professor Gary Magee Title: Professor of Economics / Head of Department Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 427 Tel: +61 3 9479 1409 Email: g.magee@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

B.A. Monash, B.Ec. La Trobe, D.Phil. Oxford

Gary Magee is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at La Trobe University. His undergraduate training was undertaken in Melbourne, where he completed a history degree from Monash University in 1986 and then a first-class honours degree in economics from La Trobe University in 1990. At La Trobe he was a D. M. Myer Medallist. In 1991, he went to the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar and obtained his doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford in 1995.

He has held academic positions at La Trobe University, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the University of London and has had visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the China Development Institute, the University of Leeds, and the Center for the History of American Business, Technology and Society in Delaware, USA. He is a former Director of the Asian Economics Centre at the University of Melbourne. In 2005, he held an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship from the Menzies Research Centre at the University of London.

He has published widely in the fields of technological change, economic history and industrial development. His books include Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America and Knowledge Generation, Technological Change and Economic Growth in Colonial Australia. In 1998, he received a diploma from the International Economic History Association recognising the high quality of his research found in his first book, Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK in recognition of his work in economic history.

Teaching

• Growth and Decline in the Global Economy
• Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance

Research interests

British, Australian, European and Asian economic history and development; innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship; the economics of migration; industrial economics; international economics; and public policy.

MAGEE, G. B., MacLAREN, D., and JAYASURIYA, S.K. (eds.), Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Lessons from Australia and China (Edward Elgars, forthcoming).

MAGEE, G.B. and JAYASURIYA, S.K., ‘Introduction’ in MAGEE, G. B., MacLAREN, D., and JAYASURIYA, S.K. (eds.), Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Lessons from Australia and China (Edward Elgars, forthcoming).

MAGEE, G.B. and THOMPSON, A. S., Empire and Globalisation: A Cultural Economy of the British World, 1850-1914. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

MAGEE, G.B. and THOMPSON, A.S., ‘Remittances between Australia and Britain, 1875-1913’ in D. Dunstan and C. Bridge (eds.), The Australian diaspora in Britain since 1901 (Monash University e-press, forthcoming).

MAGEE, G.B., and THOMPSON, A. S., ‘Migrapounds: Remittance Flows within the British World, c.1875-1913’ in K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw and S. Macintyre  (eds.), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 46-62.

MAGEE, G.B., ‘The Importance of Being British: Imperial Factors and the Growth of British Exports’. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37:3 (Winter 2007), pp. 341-369.

MAGEE, G.B. and THOMPSON, A. S., ‘The Global and Local: Explaining Migrant Remittance Flows in the English-speaking World, 1880-1914’. Journal of Economic History 66 (2006), pp. 177-202.

MAGEE, G.B. and THOMPSON, A. S., ‘”Lines of Credit, Debts of Obligation”: Migrant Remittances and the British World, c.1870-1914’. Economic History Review LIX: 3 (2006), pp. 539-577.

MAGEE, G. B., ‘As Big as it Gets: “Big Theory” and the Collapse of Darwinism’. Social Evolution and History 5: 1(March 2006), pp. 164-174.

MAGEE, G.B., “Rethinking invention: cognition and the economics of technological creativity”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 57 (2005), pp. 29-48.

MAGEE, G.B. and THOMPSON, A. S., ‘Remittances Revisited: a Case Study of South Africa and the Cornish migrant, 1870-1914’ Cornish Studies 13 (2005), pp. 288-306.

MAGEE, G.B., “Manufacturing and technological change, 1870-1918 in R. Floud and P. Johnson (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Britain (Cambridge: CUP, 2004), Vol. 2., pp. 74–98.

MAGEE, G.B and THOMPSON, A. S., “A Soft Touch? British Industry, Empire Markets and the Self-Governing Dominions, c.1870–1914”.  Economic History Review LVI (November 2003), pp. 689-717.

MAGEE, G.B., “Comparative Technological Creativity in Britain and America at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Antipodean Experience”. Journal of European Economic History 32:3 (Winter 2003), pp. 555–590.

MAGEE, G.B., “Papermaking”. in J. Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Volume 4, pp. 158–161.

MAGEE, G.B., Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, paperback edition, 2002)

MAGEE, G.B., Knowledge Generation, Technological Change and Economic Growth in Colonial Australia. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, August 2000).

MAGEE, G.B., “Technological development and foreign patenting: Evidence from nineteenth-century Australia”. Explorations in Economic History 36 (1999), pp. 344–59.