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He is also editor, with Jurgen Brauer of the Economics of Peace and Security Journal and chair of Economists for Peace and Security (UK)
Contents:
Current Research Interests
Recent Publications
Teaching Interests and Materials
Other Information
Datasets
Journals
EPS
Useful Links
Main area of research is the economics of security although
involved in research in other areas of areas of applied economics and
econometrics including: industrial economics; marxist economics;
macroeconometric modelling; analysis of large data sets; macroeconomic policy
analysis; and structural change.
STOP PRESS:
Report published by the Flemish Peace Institute
Economic Impact of Military R&D. April 2008. With Derek Braddon.
Available here
Report published by BASIC on
The Real Cost Behind Trident Replacement and the Carriers
here.
With Sam Perlo-Freeman and Paul Ingram
Projects:
ESRC funded project on
Arms Production and Trade in the Post Cold War Era
with Maria Garcia Alonso, Paul Levine and Ron Smith. Details
here.
Leverhulme Trust funded project on Defence
Industrial Restructuring, Conversion and Economic Growth in South Africa
with Peter Batchelor.
Details here.
Trade and Poverty Project with SALDRU, University of Cape Town. Details
here.
Other:
Royal Economic Society Conference 2005 Session :
The Economics of Conflict and War
Papers with Sam Perlo-Freeman prepared for Oxfam for their Control Arms campaign, 2003:
The Impact of a Responsible Arms Control Policy on the UK Economy
Bigger than the Sum of its Parts: Components and the Impact of a Responsible Arms Control Policy on the UK Economy
Paper on The Changing Economics of Security
presented to the AHE Conference at UWE, July 2007
here
Paper with Sam Perlo-Freeman on The Opportunity Cost of Trident Replacement and the Aircraft Carriers
Presented for CND to group of interested MPs, 26th Feb 2007 is
here
Paper with Jurgen Brauer on The Economics of Arms Trade Offsets
presented to the International Seminar on Defence,
13-15th November, 2006 New Delhi.
here
Paper on Sector Futures: Defence Industry prepared with Cambridge Econometrics
for European Monitoring Centre on Change
here
See the links to project webpages above for downloadable versions of papers.
Here is a more complete
list of my publications.
Teaching Interests and Materials
Active:
BUE: Developments in Macroeconomics
BUE: Econometric Modelling
BUE: Projects
Chulalongkorn Course: Economics of Conflict, War, and Peace
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Economic Theory and Applications
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Econometrics
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Applied Econometrics
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Dissertation
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Research Methods 2
UWE: International Managerial Economics
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Defence and Peace Economics
UWE: MA/MSc Economics Programme: Maths & Stats Preparatory Course
NIEP Econometrics training programme home page
UWE: MSc IBE Econometric Theory and Methods, 2003-4
UWE: Empirical Political Analysis Sessions
UWE: Using Time Series Econometrics: training course
Rough Guide to Economics: Sessions run for African Initiatives NGO
Critical Political Economy
Some other info that may be of interest:
Here is a
reading list for a course on the Economics of Military Spending I ran at
Leeds University.
Here is a
reading list for a relatively novel course on Macroeconomics I ran at Leeds
University. It considered different schools of thought in economics and the way
they analysed economic problems.
Here is a
brief introduction to Marxist Economics.
Here is a pdf copy of the text of my CAAT public
lecture on The globalisation of arms production and trade: Implications for
the UK economy November 9th 1999.
Here is a copy of the text of my Middlesex University
inaugural lecture on The Economics of War and Peace
Here are some biographical details
Here is a copy of the
dataset used in the Journal of Peace Research article (a csv file).
Economics of Peace and Security Journal: Online journal launched Jan 2006
Cambridge Journal
of Economics.
Defence and Peace Economics
International Review of Applied Economics
Frontiers in Finance and Economics
EPS: Economists for Peace and Security
EPS (UK)
Defence
Links
Bristol Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
Inomics
WebEc
EconPapers
Resources for
Economists
Intute: Social Sciences Gateway
Everton Football Club
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