BA(Hons) Coventry, MA(Econ) Manchester, PhD Manchester

Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in Australia (2001-), Vice President of the International J.A. Schumpeter Society (2004-), Member of the Social Behavioural and Economic Panel of the ARC College of Experts (2005-7), Member of the Federal Treasury Academic Consultative Panel (2007-); Member of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Economic Research Advisory Group (2007-), Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge (1995-) and Honorary Fellow of the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester (1997-). Has served as a member of the following editorial boards: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Review of Political Economy, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy. Has extensive consultancy experience with a range of organisations such as the European Commission, the National Australia Bank (UK), the International Labour Organisation and Queensland Treasury and the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. Specialises in theoretical and applied macroeconomics (especially in relation to the labour and monetary sectors) and evolutionary economics.

Modelling the macroeconomy as a complex adaptive system
The application of self-organisation theory to statistical and econometric modelling in the presence of structural transition
The theory of competition and competition policy
Legal and regulatory interactions with the process of economic evolution
The empirics of evolutionary economic growth
The theory of the firm as a complex adaptive system.

• "Randomly modulated periodic signals in Australia’s national electricity market.” The Energy Journal, 2008, vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.105-129.(with M. Hinich, M. and P. Wild)

   
• "The determination of Sterling M3, 1963-88: an evolutionary macroeconomic approach" The Economic Journal, vol. 102, 1992, pp. 481-496.
   
• "Economics and the self-organisation approach: Alfred Marshall revisited?" The Economic Journal, vol 103, No 419, 1993, pp 975-991. Reprinted in Cognitive Economics, eds. M.Egidi and S. Rizzello, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2002 (Critical Writings in Economics Series: ed. M Blaug).
   
• "The analytical foundations of evolutionary economics: from biological analogy to economic self-organisation" Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 8, pp. 427-51, 1997. Reprinted in Time in Economic Theory, eds. S. Zamagni and E. Agliardi, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2002 (Critical Writings in Economics Series: ed. M Blaug).
   
• "Econometric modelling in the presence of evolutionary change" Cambridge Journal of Economics vol. 23, 1999, pp. 749-770. (with P.Wild), 
   
• "Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth" Journal of Evolutionary Economics vol 9, 1999 pp.109-133. (with P. Wild). Reprinted in U. Cantner, H. Hanusch and S. Klepper (eds.) Economic Evolution and Complexity, New York, Physica-Verlag, 2000, pp. 159-184.
   
• “Competitive Selection, Self-Organization and Joseph A. Schumpeter.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol.10, 2000, pp. 311-328. Reprinted in D. Mueller and U. Cantner (eds.) Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century, New York, Physica-Verlag, 2001, pp. 317-334.
   
• "Interactive Expectations", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol.12 (4) 2002, pp.375-396 (with B. Flieth).
   
•  “Micro-meso-macro” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 14,  2004, pp. 263-284 (with K. Dopfer, and J. Potts).
   
• "From simplistic to complex adaptive systems in economics." Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2005, Vol. 29, pp. 873-892.
   
•  “Structural change in macroeconomic time series: a complex system perspective.” Journal of Macroeconomics, 28, 2006, pp. 136-150. (with M. Hinich and P.Wild).
   
• "Adaptive economic growth." Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2006, Vol. 30 pp. 7-32 (with J.S. Metcalfe and R. Ramlogan).
   
• “The new entropy law and the economic process,” Ecological Complexity, vol. 3, 2006, pp. 398-432. (with A. Raine and J. Potts).