Seite 2: Anhang: Kurze Biographie und ausgewählte Publikationen (Englisch)

Date of Birth: 28.06.46. Place of Birth: Watford, UK.

Education

1968 B.Sc. in mathematics and philosophy, University of Manchester. 1974 MA with distinction in economics at the University of Manchester. 1995 MA University of Cambridge. 1997 Litt.D. University of Cambridge.

Employment

From 1992 University Lecturer in Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, at the Judge Institute for Management Studies. Previously Professor of Economics, University of Northumbria.

Visiting Research Fellow at Kansai University, Japan, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala.

Published seven books as sole author, two additional ones are forthcoming. Edited six books and contributed 53 articles in economics and political economy journals and 95 articles in books and reference works. In the 1970s, many focused on faults in Marxist analysis, such as the labour theory of value and the theory of the falling rate of profit. From the 1980s, increased concentration on institutional and evolutionary economics. Emphasis on changes to technology, economic and social institutions and productivity.

Editor or Member in the Editorial Board of several academic journals in economics and political economy.

Three Recent Works

"Economics and Institutions"

Polity Press, Cambridge, and University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1988. (Also in Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese editions.)

"This book was in part a critique of mainstream economics and partly an appeal with some suggestions of my own concerning a direction in which economics could go."

"Economics and Evolution"

Polity Press, Cambridge, and University of Michigan Press, 1993. (Also in Spanish and Portuguese Editions.)

"Here, I explored the potential and limitations of using evolutionary ideas, particularly evolutionary ideas from biology in economics."

"The Political Economy of Utopia"

Routledge, London (in preparation).

"I have just completed this book which, despite it's title is close to the theme of the previous two. In it, I argue that thinking about the future is a theoretical task where we are obliged to be critical of mainstream theories because of certain crucial limitations. I also suggest ways in which the world could change and the way institutional economics can help us understand those changes. And my future work will address very much the problem of understanding what institutional economic theory is, why it was not a completed project during the 20th century and what should be done to complete it in the 21st century."