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Research Output of Dr Jerry Courvisanos

Conference papers:

"Ontology of Innovation: Human Agency in the Pursuit of Novelty". (2006) Proceedings of HETSA 06: 19th Annual of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference, Ballarat, 5-7 July.

"Political Economy of R & D" (2006) Proceedings of the Forum on the Spirit of Innovation II, Dunkerque, France 26-30 September.

Publications:

“Political Business Cycle”, in O’Hara, P.A. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 2: Economic Policy, Perth, GPERU, Curtin University, pp. 472-80. Access at: http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-2.pdf

“Thomas Michael Fitzgerald”, in King, J. (ed.), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, pp. 105-6.

“Modelling Keynes with Kalecki”, in Forstater, M. and Wray, L.R. (eds), Keynes and Macroeconomics After 70 Years: Critical Assessments of The General Theory, Cheltenham UK and Northamption, MA, Edward Elgar, 2007 (in-press, with Colin Richardson)

“Optimise Versus Satisfice: A Sustainable Development Investment Policy View from Lowe and Kalecki”, in Holt R. (ed.), Environmental Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at a Sustainable World, Armonk: M. E Sharpe (forthcoming).

“The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context”, in Laperche, B. and Uzunidis, D. (eds), Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-risk Economy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Chapter 5, forthcoming).

“Chapter 11: Stanhope”, in Towns in Time 2001 – Analysis: Incorporating the Study of Small Towns in Victoria Revisited, Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2007, pp. 103-20. Access at: http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/dsenres.nsf/LinkView/E05D934749B13CE2CA256D3B0005539F5D8F38B915AF5AA1CA256D1A0022BDE9

“The Ontology of Innovation: Human Agency in the Pursuit of Novelty”, History of Economics Review, Volume 45, Winter 2007, pp. 41-59.

“The Two Tribes of ‘The Econ’: A Study of Economists and Economic Media Commentary in Australia”, Economic Papers, Volume 26 (2), June 2007, pp. 1- 20 (with Alex Millmow).

“Invention, Innovation, Investment: Heterodox Simulation Modeling of Technological Capital Accumulation”, in Harvey. J. and Garnett, R. (eds), Future Directions in Heterodox Economics, The University of Michigan Press (2007, with Colin Richardson)

“The Dynamics of Innovation and Investment, with Application to Australia 1984-1998”, in Holt, R. and Pressman, S. (eds), Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World, Armonk: M. E Sharpe, 2007, pp. 141-77 (Chapter 6). See also Chapter 7 by Laramie, Mair & Miller which successfully tests the Courvisanos (1996) susceptibility hypothesis; pp. 178-201.

"Galbraith and the Political Economy of Technological Innovation: Critical Perspectives and a Heterodox Synthesis". (2006) Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change. pp 205-228.

Courvisanos, J & Jain, A. "A Framework for Sustainable Ecotourism: Application to Costa Rica". (2006) Tourism and Hospitality: Planning and Development. 3(2) pp 131-142.

Courvisanos, J. & Millmow, A.  (2006) "How Milton Friedman Came to Australia: A Case Study of Class-Based Political Business Cycles". Journal of Australian Political Economy Vol. 57 pp 112-136.

Courvisanos, J. & Richard, C. (2006) "Corridor of Viability: Complexity Analysis for Enterprise and Investment" in Setterfield, M. (ed.) Complexity, Endogenous Money and Macroeconomic Theory: Essays in Honour of Basil J. Moore. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar pp 125-51 (with Colin Richardson).

Technological Innovation: Galbraith, the Post Keynesians and a Heterodox Future”, (2005) Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Volume 28 (1), Fall,  pp. 83-102.

“A post-Keynesian Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development”, (2005) International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, Volume 1 (2),  pp. 187-202.

Courvisanos, J. and Verspagen, B., (2004), Innovation and Investment in Capitalist Economies, 1870-2000: Kaleckian dynamics and evolutionary life cycles, In Wray, L.R. and Forstater, M. (Eds.), Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis, Cheltenham, U.K, Edward Elgar, pp. 205-226. (with Bart Verspagen)

Michal Kalecki as a Behavioural Economists: Implications for Modern Evolutionary Economic Analysis”, (2004) in Sadowski, Z. and Szeworski, A. (eds), Kalecki's Economics Today, London, Routledge pp 27-41

“Innovation”, (2003) in King, J. (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, pp. 191-6.

“Innovation and Investment in Capitalist Economies 1870-2000: Kaleckian Dynamics and Evolutionary Life Cycles”, Investigación Económica, Volume LXII (242), Octubre-Diciembre 2002, pp. 33-80 (with Bart Verspagen). Also a shorter version was published in (2003) Wray, L.R. and Forstater, M. (eds), Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, pp. 215-34.

“Enterprise Development: Strategic Collaboration for Economics and Business”, (2002), in Johannessen, T.A., Pedersen, A. and Petersen, K. (eds.), Educational Innovation in Economics and Business VI: Teaching Today the Knowledge of Tomorrow, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic,  pp. 215-34.

“Regional Economic Decay and Regeneration Under Structural Change”, in Falk I. (ed.), (2001) Learning to Manage Change, Melbourne, NCVER,  Chapter 2, pp. 13-22.

“IT Investment Strategy for Development: An ‘Instrumental Analysis’ Based on the Tasmanian and New Brunswick Information Technology Strategies”, Prometheus, Volume 18 (1), March 2000, pp. 75-91.

“Region in Transition: Schumpeterian Road to Recovery in Tasmania”, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Volume 4 (1), Summer 1999, pp. 45-62.

“The Dissent of Economists”, History of Economics Review, No. 29, Winter 1999, pp. 112-20.

“Industry Policy for the Enhancement of Investment and Trade”, in Paul S. (ed.), Trade and Growth: New Theory and The Australian Experience, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp 238-261 (with Neil Hart).

“Keynes and the Susceptibility of Investment”, in Davidson, P. and Kregel J.A. (eds.), Improving the Global Economy, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, 1997, pp 79-92.

“Keynes and Keynesians on Investment Decision-Making: A Behavioural Perspective”, History of Economics Review, No.25, Winter-Summer 1996, pp 159-171.

Investment Cycles in Capitalist Economies: A Kaleckian Behavioural Contribution, Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, 1996.

“Transnational Corporate Planning and National Industrial Planning: the Case of the Ford Motor Company in Australia”, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No.34, December 1994, pp 53-76.

"Green - The Colour of Money?", MACH-1, Volume 2, No.4, March 1990 (in collaboration with biologist Dr Robert Close). Report on a joint teaching workshop of final year economics and biological science students at University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus.

“World Stagnation and Australia’s Economic Prospects”, Discussion Paper No. 87/1, Department of Economics, University of Tasmania, March 1987 (with Harry Bloch)

“A Problem Approach to the Study of Economics”, in Boud, D. (ed.), Problem-Based Learning in Education for the Professions, Higher education research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA), 1985, pp 121-134.

“Going, Going…Gone! Alcoa at Portland: A Cycle of Boom and Bust”, Regional Journal of Social Issues, Number 14, May 1984, pp 57-76.

“The Teaching of Tertiary Economics in CAEs: A Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom”, Western Victoria (now Regional) Journal of Social Issues, Number 2, May 1979, pp 47-62 (with Phillip Hellier).

MAJOR CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS

“Political Aspects of Innovation, with application to the Australian Dairy Industry”, paper presented at the 19th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Copenhagen Business School, 28-30 June, 2007.P>

“Investment in Process Innovation: Technological Obsolescence in Australian Manufacturing”, UNU-MERIT Academic Research Seminar Series, 4 June 2007, Maastricht (also presented at ECIS, Eindhoven University of Technology, 11 June 2007; available as Working Paper 2007-02, Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin University of Technology, April 2007 (with Harry Bloch & Maria Mangano).

"Political Economy of R&D”, paper presented to The Forum on the Spirit of Innovation II: International Symposium ‘Knowledge, Finance and Innovation’, 26-30 September, 2006 University of Littoral Cote d’Opale, Dunkerque, France.

"Modelling Keynes and Kalecki”, paper presented at the Ninth International Post Keynesian Conference: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, 15-18 September, 2006, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA(with Colin Richardson)

“Ecotourism in Costa Rica: An Economic Framework of Analysis”, paper presented at the 4th National Conference on Tourism Futures, 2-5 October 2005, Gold Coast, Australia; also at the 16th Annual Conference of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education 9CAUTHE), 6-9 February, Victoria University, Melbourne (with Ameeta Jain).

“Developing Policy for Australia’s Small Towns: From Anthropology to Sustainability”, paper presented at the Future of Australia’s Country Towns Conference, La Trobe University, Bendigo, 11-13 July 2005, (with John Martin).

“Galbraith and the Political Economy of Technological Innovation: Critical Perspectives and a Heterodox Synthesis”, paper presented at the John Kenneth Galbraith International Symposium - Forum on Innovation: 21-25 September 2004, Laboratoire Redéploiement Industriel et Innovation, Université du Littoral, Campus Parodi, Paris, France.

“Profitability and Susceptibility as Determinants of Investment Cycles: Complexity in a Post-Keynesian World”, invited paper to be presented at “Complexity, Endogenous Money and Exogenous Interest Rates”, A Conference in Honour of Basil J. Moore, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 7-11 January 2004, (with Colin Richardson).

“Innovation for Regional Communities: A Research Framework”, paper presented at Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia (SEGRA) 2003 Conference, Gold Coast, 16 September 2003; and Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ) 2003 Conference, Ballarat, 29 September 2003.

“A Nonlinear Dynamic Model of Innovation and Capital Accumulation: A post-Keynesian, neo-Austrian and evolutionary approach”, paper presented at the inaugural conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE), University of Missouri at Kansas City (7 June 2003), (with Colin Richardson).

“Russell Mathews and Research into Fiscal Federalism”, paper presented at the 14th History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 11-14 July 2001.

“Optimise Vs Satisfice: The Uncontested Battle of Investment Planning for Sustainable Development”, paper presented at the International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE) Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 5-8 July 2000.

“Problem-Based Learning and Economics at Maastricht University: An Outsider's View from Downunder”, Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Seminar, The Netherlands, 19 January 2000.

“The Eco-rationalist Framework and its Application to the Dutch System(s) of Innovation, Technology and Environmental Sustainability”, Maastricht University, MERIT Seminar, The Netherlands, 6 January 2000.

“Social Capital: An Economist’s Perspective”, University of Tasmania, Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia, Regional Education Seminar, 18 May 1998.

“Investment Planning Towards an Innovative and Sustainable Environment”, presented to the 6th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network, University of California, Santa Barbara, California USA, 16-19 November 1997.

“Satisficing Behaviour in Consumption Decision-Making: An Empirical Study”, presented to the 26th Annual Conference of Economists, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 28 September- 1 October 1997 (with Martin Tolar).

“Dynamics in the Underground: Thought and Methodology in the Study of Investment Cycles”, presented to the 10th Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, 17-19 July 1997.

“Technological Innovation and the Instability of Business Fixed Investment”, presented to the 1995 Conference of Industry Economics, University of Melbourne, 6 July 1995.

“Patterns of Susceptibility: Australian Case Studies of Cyclical Investment Behaviour”, presented at the Post-Keynesian Economics Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 14-15 July 1994.

“Economics on the Left – Where is it Going? Radical Political Economy in North America”, Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education, Staff Seminar, 2 November 1983.

"Making Economics Relevant”, Deakin University, School of Management Seminar, 29 April 1981 (with Ray Bantow).

“Tertiary Economics and the Learning Process: Another Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom”, presented to the Economics at Colleges of Advanced Education, Second Conference, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria, 6-7 February 1979 (with Phillip Hellier).





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