Staff profile

Professor John King

Professor

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) (Oxon.), FASSA

Membership of professional associations

History of Economic Thought Society of Australia; History of Economics Society (USA); European Society for the History of Economic Thought; Society of Heterodox Economists

Area of study

Economics

Brief profile

John King is Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University. Before coming to Australia in 1988 he taught economics at the University of Lancaster in England. His research interests are in the history of heterodox economic thought, in particular Marxian political economy and post Keynesian macroeconomics, and in the methodology of economic thought. He currently teaches the economics of human resources, 20th-century world economic history and industrial relations. He has published in History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economics Review, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Political Economy and Feminist Economics. He is a member of the editorial boards of History of Economics Review, History of Economic Ideas,Review of Keynesian Economics,  Review of Political Economy, Australian Journal of Labour Economics and Global Change, Peace and Security.

Teaching units

ECO2MWE Modern World Economy

ECO3EAE Economics and Ethics

ECO3IRE Industrial Relations

Recent publications

Books

A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Cheltenham, Elgar, 2007, xix + 337pp.

The Rise of Neoliberalism in Advanced Capitalism: A Materialist Analysis, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, vi+ 320pp. (with M.C. Howard).

Nicholas Kaldor, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. viii+ 250pp.

  (editor) The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham: Elgar, second edition, 2012, xvii+ 624pp.

  The Microfoundations Delusion: Metaphor and Dogma in the History of Macroeconomics , Cheltenham: Elgar, 2012, 293pp.  

Chapters in Books

 

 ‘Reflections on the global financial crisis’, in S. Kates (ed.), Macroeconomic Theory and Its Failings: Alternative Perspectives on the World Financial Crisis, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2010, pp. 143-58.

 

‘Kaldor and the Kaldorians’, in M. Setterfield (ed.), A Handbook of Alternative Growth Theory, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2010, pp. 157-72.

 

 ‘Backward-bending labour supply curve’, in M. Blaug and P. Lloyd (eds), Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2010, pp. 161-9.

   ‘Arguments for pluralism in economics’, in G. Argyrous and F. Stilwell (eds), Readings in Political Economy: Economics as a Social Science. Melbourne: Tilde University Press, 2011, pp. 54-7.   

 ‘Four theses on the global financial crisis’, in S. Kates (ed.), The Global Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned?, Elgar, 2011, pp. 126-37.  

‘Introduction’ (pp. xv-xviii’ and entries on ‘Australia’ (pp. 5-9), ‘Behavioural Economics’ (with T. Jefferson) (pp. 35-41) and ‘Underconsumption’ (pp. 559-64) in J.E. King (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, second edition, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.  

‘The future of neoliberalism’, in D. Cahill, F. Stilwell and L. Edwards (eds), Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 251-66.  

‘Post Keynesians and others’, in F.S. Lee and M. Lavoie (eds), In Defense of Post-Keynesian and Heterodox Economics: Response to Their Critics, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-17.  

 

 

Refereed Articles

 'Keynes and “psychology”’, Economic Papers 29(1), March 2010, pp. 1-12.

 

‘Six more refuted doctrines: A comment on Quiggin’, Economic Papers 29(1), March 2010, pp. 34-9.

 

  ‘Hilferding’s Finance Capital in the development of Marxist thought’, History of Economics Review 52, Summer 2010, pp. 52-62.   .

 (with T. Jefferson) ‘Can Post Keynesians Make Better Use of Behavioral Economics?, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 33 (2), Winter 2010-2011, pp. 211-34.     

 ‘An Interview with Tony Thirlwall’, Global Change, Peace and Security 23(2), June 2011, pp. 239-48.    (with T. Jefferson) ‘Michal Kalecki and Critical Realism’, Cambridge Journal of   Economics, 35 (5), September 2011, pp. 957-72.     

 ‘Post Keynesians and Others’, Review of Political Economy, 24 (2), April 2012, pp. 305-19.     

 ‘The Reform of Capitalism is (a) Possible and (b) Very Desirable: Interview with John E. King’, Intervention: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 2012 (2), pp. 93-103.   

 ‘Sixteen Questions for Fine and Milonakis’, Historical Materialism, 20 (3), 2012, pp. 1-22.  

 

 

 

 

 

Older publications

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Research projects

English translation of Otto Bauer, ZWISCHEN ZWEI WELTKRIEGE? (1936), with Professor M. Kratke, University of Lancaster.

Monograph on  DAVID RICARDO, for the Palgrave Macmillan 'Great Thinkers in Economics' series.