CURRICULUM VITAE
MALCOLM RUTHERFORD
Department of Economics
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria, B.C.
Canada, V8W 2Y2
Phone: (250) 721-6481
Fax: (250) 721-6214
E-mail: [email protected]
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
History of Economics; Institutional Economics; History of American Economics;
Methodology of Economics.
QUALIFICATIONS:
B.A. (Hons.) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland (1971)
M.A. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1973)
Ph.D. University of Durham, Durham, England (1979)
THESIS:
"The Development of American Institutional Economics."
Supervisor: Prof. D.P. O'Brien
External Examiners: Prof. T.W. Hutchison (Birmingham), and Prof. E. Allen
(Durham)
APPOINTMENTS:
1975
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1976-1977:
1977-1979:
1979-1984:
1984-1985:
1985-1994:
1994-2015:
2015:
Temporary Lecturer, University of Newcastle
Instructor, University of Maryland
Sessional Lecturer, University of Victoria
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Assistant Professor with tenure, University of Victoria
Associate Professor, University of Victoria
Professor, University of Victoria
Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria
Visiting Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, January-July 1986
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, February-April 2000
Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, London, February-April 2003
Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2011
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EXTERNAL GRANTS:
1999-2002, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $46,540
2002-2005, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $72,020
HONOURS AND AWARDS:
1996
2008
2009
2013
2013
2013
2014
President, History of Economics Society
President, Association for Evolutionary Economics
University of Victoria, Faculty of Social Sciences, Research Excellence
Award
Veblen-Commons Award, Association for Evolutionary Economics
European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Best Book Award for
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science
and Social Control
Honorary President, World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional
Research
Distinguished Fellow, History of Economics Society
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
1994
Institutions in Economics: the Old and the New Institutionalism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. xi, 225. Reprinted 1995 and 1999;
Paperback edition 1996; Arabic language edition 1998; Chinese language
edition 1999.
2011
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science
and Social Control. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii, 410.
Paperback edition 2013.
Edited Books
1996
John R. Commons: Selected Essays, 2 vols. Edited and with an Introduction
(with Warren J. Samuels). London: Routledge, pp. viii, 557. Paperback
edition, 2016.
1997
Classics in Institutional Economics: The Founders, 5 vols. Edited and with an
Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels). London: Pickering and Chatto.
1998
The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American
Economics. Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Edited and
with an Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. xi, 333. Paperback edition
2014.
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1998
From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism. Annual Supplement to
Volume 30 of History of Political Economy. Edited (with Mary Morgan).
Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp. vi, 325.
1998
Classics in Institutional Economics II, 5 vols. Edited and with an Introduction
(with Warren J. Samuels). London: Pickering and Chatto.
2003
Early American Economic Thought Series. Series Editor (with William J.
Barber, Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, and Warren J. Samuels).
Three parts and 15 volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto.
2004
The Emergence of a National Economy: The United States from
Independence to the Civil War. Part II in the Early American Economic
Thought Series, 6 vols. Edited and with an Introduction (with Marianne
Johnson and William J. Barber). London: Pickering and Chatto.
Chapters
1988
Learning and Decision Making in Economics and Psychology: A
Methodological Perspective. In Peter Earl (ed.), Psychological Economics.
Boston: Kluwer Academic, pp. 35-54.
1990
Introduction to the Transaction Edition. J. R. Commons, Institutional
Economics: Its Place in Political Economy (1934). New Brunswick:
Transaction, pp. xiii-xxxvii.
1990
Science, Self-Correction and Values: From Peirce to Institutionalism. In John
Lutz (ed.), Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect, Boston: Kluwer
Academic, pp. 391-406.
1994
J.A. Hobson and American Institutionalism: Underconsumption and
Technological Change. In John Pheby (ed.), J. A. Hobson After Fifty Years.
London: Macmillan, pp. 188-210.
1999
Institutionalism as "Scientific" Economics. In Roger Backhouse and John
Creedy (eds.), From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in
Honour of D. P. O'Brien. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 223-242.
2003
American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period. In Warren Samuels,
John Davis, and Jeff Biddle, eds., A Companion to the History of Economic
Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 360-376.
2005
The Firm in American Institutional Economics. In Marco Guidi and Daniela
Parisi, eds., The Changing Firm. Contributions from the History of Economic
Thought. Milan: Franco Angeli, pp. 38-51.
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2010
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. In Ross Emmett, ed., Elgar
Companion to the Chicago School of Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,
pp. 25-39.
Journal Articles
1980
Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry. History of Political
Economy 12 (3): 434-440. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in
Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992;
and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assesments, Routledge:
London, 1993].
1981
Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry: A Rejoinder.
History of Political Economy 13 (1): 156-158. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.),
Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar:
Aldershot, 1992; and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical
Assesments, Routledge: London, 1993].
1981
Clarence Ayres and the Instrumental Theory of Value. Journal of Economic
Issues. 15 (3): 657-673. [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought
in Economics 5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and
in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948,
John Commons 1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar:
Aldershot, 1992].
1983
Ayres's Instrumentalism: A Reply to Weinel. Journal of Economic Issues 17
(3): 750-753.
1983
J.R. Commons's Institutional Economics. Journal of Economic Issues 17 (3):
721-744. [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought in Economics
5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and in M. Blaug
(ed.), Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948, John Commons
1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992].
1984
Rational Expectations and Keynesian Uncertainty: A Critique. Journal of Post
Keynesian Economics 6 (3): 377-387.
1984
Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change. History of
Political Economy 16 (3): 331-348. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in
Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992;
in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Routledge,
London, 1993; in G. Hodgson (ed.) The Foundations of Evolutionary
Economics: 1890-1973, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 1998, and in Rick Tilman
(ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003].
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1987
Wesley Mitchell: Institutions and Quantitative Methods. Eastern Economic
Journal 13 (1): 63-73.
1987
Veblen, Leibenstein and McCormick. History of Economics Society Bulletin
8 (2): 57-59.
1989
Some Issues in the Comparison of Austrian and Institutional Economics.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 6: 159-172.
1989
What is Wrong with the New Institutional Economics (And What is Still
Wrong with the Old)? Review of Political Economy 1 (3): 299-318.
1990
Rational Expectations in the Light of Modern Psychology. Research in the
History of Economic Thought and Methodology 7: 127-140.
1990
Allan Gruchy: 1906-1990. Review of Political Economy 2 (3): 371-374.
1992
On Trusts and Technostructures: Veblen, Berle and Means, and Galbraith.
International Journal of Social Economics 19 (10/11/12): 268-278.
1992
Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers. International Review of
Sociology, new series, 1992 (3): 125-150. [Reprinted in Rick Tilman (ed.),
The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003].
1994
Predatory Practices or Reasonable Values? American Institutionalists on the
Nature of Market Transactions. In Higgling: Transactors and Their Markets
in the History of Economics, edited by Neil De Marchi and Mary Morgan.
History of Political Economy 26 (supplement): 253-275.
1995
The Old and the New Institutionalism: Can Bridges be Built? Journal of
Economic Issues 29 (2): 443-451.
1995
“The Criticism of Modern Civilization” by Wesley Mitchell. Edited and with
an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford. Journal of Economic Issues 29 (3):
663-682.
1996
“Money Economy and Modern Civilization” by Wesley Mitchell. Edited and
with an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford. History of Political Economy
28 (3): 317-357.
1997
American Institutionalism and the History of Economic Thought (Presidential
Address to the History of Economics Society). Journal of the History of
Economic Thought 19 (Fall): 178-195.
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1998
Thorstein Veblen's Evolutionary Programme: A Promise Unfulfilled.
Cambridge Journal of Economics 22 (July): 463-477.
1998
American Economics: The Character of the Transformation (with Mary
Morgan). In From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism., edited by
Mary Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford. History of Political Economy 30
(supplement): 1-26.
2000
The Prospects of Heterodox Economics: A Comment. Journal of the History
of Economic Thought 22 (June): 185-188.
2000
Institutionalism Between the Wars. Journal of Economic Issues 24 (June):
291-303.
2000
Understanding Institutional Economics: 1918-1929. Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, 22 (September): 277-308.
2001
Institutional Economics: Then and Now. Journal of Economic Perspectives
15 (Summer): 173-194. [Reprinted in Geoffrey M. Hodgson, ed., A Modern
Reader in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics. Edward Elgar:
Cheltenham, 2003; Nicholas Mercuro, ed., Law and Economics. Routledge:
London, 2007; John B. Davis and Asimina Christoforou, eds., The Economics
of Social Institutions. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2013; Mark F. Peterson,
ed., Cross-Cultural Research. Sage: London, 2015; Spanish translation in
Rivista Analisis Economico 8 (2003): 13-39].
2002
Morris A. Copeland: A Case Study in the History of Institutional Economics.
Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24 (September): 261-290.
2003
On the Economic Frontier: Walton Hamilton, Institutional Economics, and
Education. History of Political Economy 35 (Winter): 611-653.
2004
Institutional Economics: The Term and its Meanings. Research in the History
of Economic Thought and Methodology 22-A: 179-184.
2004
Institutional Economics at Columbia University. History of Political
Economy 36 (Spring): 31-78.
2005
“Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns?” The NBER and the Foundations. Journal
of the History of Economic Thought 27 (June): 109-139.
2005
Comments on Four Papers on Economics and Human Heterogeneity.
American Journal of Economics and Sociology 64 (July): 881-886.
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2005
Walton H. Hamilton and the Public Control of Business. In The Role of
Government in the History of Political Econom, edited by Steven Medema
and Peter Boettke. History of Political Economy 37 (supplement): 234-273.
2006
Wisconsin Institutionalism: John R. Commons and his Students. Labor
History 47 (May): 161-188. [Russian translation published in Terra
Economicus 10: 2 (2012): 32-54].
2007
American Institutionalism and its British Connections. European Journal of
the History of Economic Thought 14 (June): 291-323.
2008
The Institutionalist Reaction to Keynesian Economics (with Tyler
DesRoches). Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30 (March): 29-48.
2008
A. W. (Bob) Coats, 1924-2007 (with Roger Backhouse, Bruce Caldwell, and
Craufurd Goodwin). History of Political Economy 40 (Fall): 421-446.
2008
John R. Commons’s “Reasonable Value.” Edited and with an Introduction
(with Warren J. Samuels and Charles J. Whalen). Research in the History of
Economic Thought and Methodology 26-B: 223-370.
2009
Did Commons Have Few Followers? Continuing my Conversation with
Yngve Ramstad. Journal of Economic Issues 33 (June): 441-448.
2009
Towards a History of American Institutional Economics. Presidential Address
to the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Journal of Economic Issues
33 (June): 308-318.
2010
Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American
Economics, 1918-1947. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3
(Autumn): 47-71.
2011
The Judicial Control of Business: Walton Hamilton, Antitrust, and Chicago.
Seattle University Law Review 34 (4): 1385-1407.
2011
The USDA Graduate School: Government Training in Statistics and
Economics, 1920-1945. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33
(December): 419-447.
2012
Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011). History of Economic Thought and Policy
2012 (1): 167-170.
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2012
Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 19001930. In Histories of Observation in Economics, edited by Harro Maas and
Mary Morgan. History of Political Economy 44 (supplement): 185-205.
[Russian translation in Terra Economicus 10: 4 (2012): 91-106.]
2013
J. M. Clark and Institutional Economics. Remarks on the Receipt of the
Veblen-Commons Award, January 2013. Journal of Economic Issues 37
(June): 295-310.
2013
Warren Samuels, The Journal of Economic Issues, and The Association for
Evolutionary Economics. Research in the History of Economic Thought and
Methodology 31: 61-72.
2015
American Institutionalism After 1945. Research in the History of Economic
Thought and Methodology 33: 95-123.
2015
Institutionalism and the Social Control of Business. In Market Failure in
Context, edited by Alain Marciano and Steven Medema. History of Political
Economy 47 (Supplement): 77-98.
1994
John R. Commons, 1862-1945. In G. Hodgson, W. Samuels and M. Tool
(eds.), Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.
Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 63-69.
1994
Austrian and American (Old) Institutionalism. In P.T. Boettke (ed.), Elgar
Companion to Austrian Economics. Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 529-534.
1998
John R. Commons. In J. Davis, U. Maki, and W. Hands (eds.), The Handbook
of Economic Methodology. Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 67-69.
1998
Institutionalism. In J. Davis, U. Maki, and W. Hands (eds.), The Handbook of
Economic Methodology. Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 249-253.
2007
Mitchell, Wesley Clair (1874-1948). International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences, 2nd Edition. Ed. William A. Darity. Woodbridge CT: Gale,
Macmillan Reference USA.
2008
Institutionalism, Old. New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.
Eds. Stephen N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. London: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Entries
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2008
The National Bureau of Economic Research. New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, 2nd Edition. Eds. Stephen N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2009
Hamilton, Walton Hale (1881-1958). Yale Biographical Dictionary of
American Law. Ed. Roger K. Newman. New Haven CT: Yale University
Press, pp. 246-247.
2011
Kyrk, Hazel (1886-1957). Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Ed. Dale
Southerton. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, pp. 832-833.
2013
National Bureau of Economic Research. The Oxford Encyclopedia of
American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Ed. Melvyn Dubofsky.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013
New Deal and Institutional Economics. The Oxford Encyclopedia of
American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Ed. Melvyn Dubofsky.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016
Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948). Handbook on the History of Economic
Analysis, Vol 1. Ed Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz Kurz. Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar, pp. 446-448 .
2016
Institutionalism. Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Vol 2. Ed
Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz Kurz. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 313-328.
Book Reviews
1985
Review of Capitalism, Slavery and Republican Values by Allan Kaufman.
History of Political Economy 17 (1): 151-153.
1985
Review of Thorstein Veblen: Seer of American Socialism by Robert Griffin.
History of Political Economy 17 (1): 146-147.
1985
Review of The Foundations of Economic Method by Lawrence Boland.
Eastern Economic Journal 11 (4): 467-470.
1986
Review Essay on The Politics of Meaning by Peter Sederberg. Research in
the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 4: 297-304.
1988
Review of Critics of Capitalism: Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'
edited by Elisabeth and Richard Jay. History of Political Economy 20 (4):
682-683.
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1989
Review of Industrial Structure, Capital Markers and the Origins of British
Industrial Decline by William Kennedy. History of Political Economy 21 (2):
402-403.
1992
Review of Economic Behavior and Institutions by Thrainn Eggertsson.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 19 (1): 251-254.
1992
Review of A History of Canadian Economic Thought by Robin Neill.
Canadian Journal of Economics 25 (4): 1000-1003.
1993
Review of A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists edited by
Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer. Journal of Economic Issues 27 (1): 247250.
1993
Review of Thorstein Veblen and his Critics, 1891-1963 by Rick Tilman.
Economic Journal 103 (May): 764-766.
1993
Review Essay on Radical Institutionalism, William Dugger, (ed.). Research in
the History of Economics Thought and Methodology 11: 225-232.
1995
Review of Economic Methodology, Rationality and Institutions edited by
Uskali Maki, Bo Gustaffson, and Christian Knudsen. Journal of Economic
Literature 33 (March): 200-201.
1995
Review of Institutions and Social Conflict by Jack Knight. Economics and
Philosophy 11 (2): 370-375.
1995
Review of Economics at Wisconsin, 1892-1992 edited by Robert Lampman.
History of Political Economy 27 (4): 790-791.
1995
Review of Externality and Institutions by Andreas A. Papandreou. Journal of
Economic Literature 33 (December): 1981-1983.
1996
Book Note: Pricing, Valuation and Systems: Essays in Neoinstitutional
Economics by Marc Tool. Economic Journal 106 (September): 1467.
1997
Review of Transaction Cost Economics I and II edited by Oliver Williamson
and Scott Masten. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 153
(September): 581-582.
1998
Review of John Kenneth Galbraith by James Stanfield. Manchester School 66
(January): 133-135.
1998
Review of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues by Rick Tilman. Journal of
Economic Issues 32 (March): 244-247.
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1999
Review of Institutional Economics Revisited by Shigeto Tsuru. Manchester
School 67 (1): 129-131.
1999
Review of The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutional and
Neoclassical Economists in America Between the Wars by Yuval Yonay.
Journal of the History of Economic Thought 21 (September): 329-333.
2000
Review of Economic Evolution: An Enquiry into the Foundations of the New
Institutional Economics by Jack J. Vromen. History of Political Economy 32
(Spring): 175-176.
2000
Review Essay on The Struggle Over The Soul of Economics: Institutional and
Neoclassical Economists in America Between the Wars by Yuval Yonay.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 18-A: 163168.
2000
Review of Evolution and Economics: On Evolutionary Economics and the
Evolution of Economics, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Journal of Economic
Issues 34 (September): 746-748.
2001
Review of The Founding of Institutional Economics: The Leisure Class and
Sovereignty, edited by Warren J. Samuels. History of Political Economy 33
(Summer): 383-384.
2001
Review of Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions, edited by Manfred Srteit,
Uwe Mummert, and Daniel Kiwit. Journal of Economic Psychology 22 (4):
566-569.
2003
Review of Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought, by Stephen Edgell.
History of Political Economy 35 (1): 171-173.
2003
Review of A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd edition,
edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer. History of Political Economy
35 (1): 170-171.
2003
Review of International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies:
The Classical Dynamics of Hume, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus by John
Berdell. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 12
(June): 222-224.
2004
Review of The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, edited by Rick Tilman. History
of Economic Ideas 12 (1): 154-157.
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2005
Review of Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the
Consumer by Kathleen G. Donohue. Journal of the History of Economic
Thought 27 (June): 220-223.
2008
Review of Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism
by Rick Tilman. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 15
(June): 377-380.
2009
Review of Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of
Economic Institutions by Daniel W. Bromley. Journal of Economic
Methodology 16 (March): 89-92.
2010
Review of Bruce E. Kaufman, Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years
of Human Resource Management in American Industry. History of Political
Economy 42 (Summer): 392-394.
2011
Review of Ross B. Emmett, Frank Knight and the Chicago School in
American Economics. History of Political Economy 44 (Spring): 192-193.
2012
Review of Philippe Steiner, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology.
History of Economic Thought and Policy 2012 (1): 149-151.
2013
Review of David A. Reisman, The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen.
Oeconomia 3 (March): 171-173.
2013
Review of Rick Tilman, Thorstein Veblen and his European Contemporaries,
1880-1940. History of Political Economy 45 (Summer): 363-365.
2013
Review of Charles McCann, Order and Control in American Socio-Economic
Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive Era Reform. History of Political
Economy 45 (Fall): 560-562.
2013
Review of Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets
Since the Depression. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 49
(Autumn): 436-438.
2015
Review of Craufurd Goodwin, Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. History
of Political Economy 47 (December): 681-685.
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Institutions and Institutional Change in Veblen and Commons. Presented at the
History of Economics Society Meetings, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 1983.
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Knowledge and Ignorance in Keynesian Economics. Presented at Eastern Economics
Association Meetings, New York, March 1984.
W.C. Mitchell: Quantitative Methods and Institutional Economics. Presented at
History of Economics Society Meetings, Pittsburgh, May 1984.
Institutionalism, Underconsumptionism and J.A. Hobson. Presented at History of
Economics Society Meetings, Fairfax, Virginia, May 1985.
Rational Expectations in the Light of Modern Psychology. Presented at History of
Economics Society Meetings, New York, June 1986.
Some Issues in the Comparison of Austrian and Institutional Economics. Presented at
History of Economics Society Meetings Boston, June 1987.
Self Correcting Value Judgements: From Peirce to Institutionalism. Presented at
ASSA/American Economics Association Meetings, (Association for Social
Economics session), Chicago, December 1987.
What is Wrong with the New Institutional Economics (And What is Still Wrong With
the Old)? Presented at History of Economics Society Meetings, Toronto, June 1988.
Rutherford vs Ramstad on Commons: A One Sided View. Presented in absentia at
History of Economics Society Meetings, Richmond, Virginia, June 1989.
J.A. Hobson and American Institutionalism. Presented at a Special Conference on
J.A. Hobson, Malvern, England, May 1990.
J.A. Hobson and American Institutionalism. Presented at ASSA/American
Economics Association Meetings (Association for Social Economics session),
Washington, D.C., December 1990.
Veblen and the Engineers Revisited. Presented at the History of Economics Society
Meetings, College Park, Maryland, June 1991.
Rationality and Rule Following in American Institutional Economics. Presented at
ASSA/American Economics Association Meetings (AEA/History of Economics
Society joint session), New Orleans, January 1992.
Evolution vs Design: A False Dichotomy? Presented at the History of Economics
Society Meetings, Fairfax, Virginia, June 1992.
Evolution vs Design: A False Dichotomy? Presented at the Sixth Annual Political
Economy Conference, Malvern, England, August 1992.
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Exploitation or Negotiation? American Institutionalists on the Nature of Market
Transactions. Presented at the History of Political Economy Conference on
Transactors and Their Markets, Durham, North Carolina, March 1993.
Predatory Practices or Reasonable Values? American Institutionalists on the Nature
of Market Transactions. Presented at the History of Economics Society Meetings,
Philadelphia, June 1993.
Wesley Mitchell's “Money Economy and Modern Civilization”: An Unpublished
Address. Presented at the History of Economics Society Meetings, Babson, June
1994.
Wesley Mitchell's “Money Economy and Modern Civilization”: An Unpublished
Address. Presented at the Eighth Annual Political Economy Conference, Malvern,
England, August 1994.
Wesley Mitchell on the Evolution of the Money Economy. Presented at the
Institutionalism and Economics Weekend and Veblen Society Meeting, Northfield,
Minnesota, September 1994.
The Old and the New Institutionalism: Can Bridges Be Built? Presented at the
ASSA/American Economics Association Meetings (AEA/Association for
Evolutionary Economics joint session), Washington, D.C., January 1995.
Veblen's Evolutionary System Revisited. Presented at the History of Economics
Society Meetings, South Bend, June 1995.
American Institutionalism and the History of Economics. Presidential Address to the
History of Economics Society, Charleston, SC, June 1997.
Institutionalism as Scientific Economics. Presented at the History of Economics
Society Meetings, Montreal, June 1998.
Institutional Economics: 1918-1929. Presented at the History of Economics Society
Meetings, Greensboro, June 1999
Institutionalism Between the Wars. Presented at the ASSA meetings (Association for
Evolutionary Economics), Boston, January 2000.
Morris A. Copeland: A Case-Study in the History of Institutional Economics.
Presented at the History of Economics Society Meetings, Vancouver, July 2000.
Institutional Economics at Columbia University. Presented at the ASSA meetings
(History of Economics Society), New Orleans, January 2001.
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Walton Hamilton, Amherst, and the Brookings Graduate School: Institutional
Economics and Education. Presented at the History of Economics Society Meetings,
Wake Forest University, July 2001.
Walton Hamilton, Amherst, and the Brookings Graduate School: Institutional
Economics and Education. Presented at the European Association for Evolutionary
Political Economy Meetings, Siena, Italy, November 2001.
“Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns”: The NBER and the Foundations. Presented at the
History of Economics Society Meetings, Davis, July 2002.
On the Economic Frontier: Walton Hamilton, Institutional Economics, and Education.
Presented at a special conference on The History of Heterodox Economics, University
of Missouri-Kansas City, October, 2002.
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Presented at the ASSA meetings (History
of Economics Society), Washington DC, January 2003.
The Firm in American Institutional Economics. Plenary Address to the Italian
Association for the History of Economic Thought, Brescia, Italy, February 2003.
American Institutionalism and Its British Connections. Presented at the Economic
History Society Conference, Durham, England, April 2003.
Institutional Economics: The Term and its Meanings. Roundtable on the
Historiography of Institutionalism at the History of Economics Society Meetings,
Duke University, July 2003.
Walton H. Hamilton and the Public control of Business. Presented at the History of
Political Economy Conference on The Role of Government in the History of Political
Economy, Durham, NC, April 2004.
Walton H. Hamilton and the Public control of Business. Presented at the History of
Economics Society Meetings, University of Toronto, June 2004.
The Institutions of Economics: The NBER and the Foundations. Plenary address to
the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (Aispe), Palermo, Italy,
November 2004.
Wisconsin Institutionalism: John R. Commons and His Students. Presented at the
Japanese Society for the History of American Economic Thought Meetings, Tokyo,
May 2005.
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American Institutionalism and Its English Connections. Presented at the European
Society for the History of Economic Thought Meetings, Stirling, Scotland, June 2005.
American Institutionalism and Its English Connections. Presented at the History of
Economics Society Meetings, Tacoma, June 2005.
The Institutionalist Reaction to Keynesian Economics (with Tyler DesRoches).
Presented at the History of Economics society Meetings, Grinnell, June 2006.
Towards a History of American Institutional Economics. Presented at the Summer
Institute for the History of Economic Thought, George Mason University, June 2007.
Government Training in Statistics and Economics: The USDA Graduate School.
Presented at the History of Economics Annual Meetings, York University, Toronto,
June 2008.
Did Commons Have Few Followers? Presented at the Association for Evolutionary
Economics Meetings (ASSA), San Francisco, January 2009.
Towards a History of American Institutional Economics. Presidential Address to the
Association for Evolutionary Economics, Association for Evolutionary Economics
Meetings (ASSA), San Francisco, January 2009.
Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics.
Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Economics, Peter Wall Institute,
University of British Columbia, April 2010.
Science and social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics,
1918-1947. Invited Opening Plenary Speaker at the XIII International Conference of
the Association Charles Gide for the Study of Economic Though, Paris, May 2010.
Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
Presented at the History of Economics Society Winter Meetings (ASSA), Denver,
January 2011.
The Judicial Control of Business: Walton Hamilton, Chicago, and Antitrust.
Presented at the Berle II Symposium, Berle Centre on Corporations, Law and Society,
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, January 2011.
Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
Presented at the History of Political Economy Conference on the History of
Observation in Economics, Duke University, Durham NC, April 2011.
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Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
Presented at the History of Economics Society Conference, Notre Dame University,
South Bend, June 2011.
Roundtable on Malcolm Rutherford, The Institutionalist Movement in American
Economics, History of Economics Society Conference, Notre Dame University, South
Bend, June 2011.
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and
Social Control. Invited Distinguished Speaker, Singapore Economic Review
Conference, Singapore, August 2011.
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and
Social Control. Invited Closing Plenary Speaker, Economic History Association of
Brazil Conference, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2011.
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and
Social Control. Invited Opening Plenary Speaker, Portugese Association for
Economic and Social History, Coimbra, Portugal, November 2011.
Field Observation in Early Institutional Labor Economics, 1900-1930. European
Society for the History of Economic Thought Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia,
May 2012.
Warren Samuels, The Journal of Economic Issues, and The Association for
Evolutionary Economics. Presented at the History of Economics Society Conference,
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, June 2012.
Roundtable on Building Chicago Economics. Social Science History Association
Meetings, Vancouver, November, 2012.
J. M. Clark and Institutional Economics. Remarks on Receipt of the VeblenCommons Award, 2013. Association for Evolutionary Economics Meetings (ASSA),
San Diego, January 2013.
American Institutionalism after 1945. Presented at History of Recent Economics
Conference, Cergy, France, May 2013.
American Institutionalism after 1945. Presented at History of Economics Society
Conference, UBC, Vancouver, June 2013.
Market Deficiencies: The Institutionalist Analysis. Presented at the History of
Political Economy Conference on Market Failure in Context. Duke University, April
2014.
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Deficient Markets. Blanqui Lecture (ESHET Best Book Award 2013). Presented at
European Society for the History of Economic Thought Conference, Lausanne,
Switzerland, May 2014.
http://www.eshet.net/public/file/Blanqui-rutherford%20copia.pdf
Institutionalism and the Social Control of Business. Presented at History of
Economics Society Conference, UQAM, Montreal, June 2014.
Chicago and Institutional Economics. Presented at Conference on The Legacy of the
First Chicago School of Economics, Becker Friedman Institute, University of
Chicago, October 2015.
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/research/becker-friedman-working-paper/chicago-andinstitutional-economics
Walton Hamilton and the Judicial Control of Business. Presented at The World
Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), Boston, September
2016.
SEMINARS:
J. A. Hobson and American Institutionalism. Department of Economics, University
of Surrey, England, February 1986.
Psychology and Economics. Department of Economics, University of Stirling,
Scotland, May 1986.
Technological Change and Unemployment: Hobson, Veblen and Institutionalism.
Dept. of Economics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1986.
What is Wrong with the New Institutional Economics (And What is Still Wrong with
the Old)? Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, October 1988.
J. A. Hobson and American Institutionalism. Department of Economics, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 1991.
Methodological Individualism. Graduate Seminar, Department of Economics,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 1991.
Rationality and Rule Following in the Old and New Institutional Economics.
Department of Economics, York University, Toronto, March 1993.
Wesley Mitchell on the Evolution of the Money Economy. Austrian Economics
Seminar, New York University, New York, November 1994.
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Douglass North and the Old Institutionalism. Department of Economics, University
of Northern BC, Prince George, March 1995.
The Rational Choice Paradigm in Economics. Social Sciences Colloquium,
University of Victoria, November 1998.
Institutionalism Between the Wars. J. M. Kaplan Workshop in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, February 2000.
Institutionalism Between the Wars. History of Economics Workshop, Duke
University, Durham, NC, March 2000.
Institutionalism Between the Wars and Beyond. Department of Economics,
University of Victoria, April 2000.
Towards a History of Institutional Economics. Department of Economics, Simon
Fraser University, November, 2000.
Institutionalism at Columbia University. York-Toronto History of Economics
Workshop, Toronto, March, 2001.
“Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns”: The NBER and the Foundations. Department of
Economics, Colorado State University, November 2002.
“Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns”: The NBER and the Foundations. J. M. Kaplan
Workshop in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax
VA, November 2002.
“Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns”: The NBER and the Foundations. Department of
Economics, University of Victoria, November 2002.
More than Dissent: Institutionalism and American Economics. Dissent in Science
Seminar, London School of Economics, March 2003.
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Department of Economic History, London
School of Economics, March 2003.
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Institute for Philosophy and Economics,
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, March 2003.
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Amsterdam Research Group in History and
Methodology of Economics, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University
of Amsterdam, March 2003.
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Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Department of Agricultural and Applied
Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2003.
Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. Department of Economics, Brown Bag
Seminar, University of Victoria, November 2003.
American Institutionalism and Its English Connections. Third Workshop of the
Comparative Study of the Economic Thought from the Late 19th Century to the
Interwar Period: Reformation of Economic Society and Designing Economic Policy.
Tokyo, May 2005.
Discussion of Walton Hamilton and the Public Control of Business. Third Workshop
of the Comparative Study of the Economic Thought from the Late 19th Century to the
Interwar Period: Reformation of Economic Society and Designing Economic Policy.
Tokyo, May 2005.
Towards a History of American Institutional Economics. Department of Economics,
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, May 2005.
The Institutionalist Reaction to Keynesian Economics. History of Economic Thought
Seminar, Dept of Economics, University of Toronto, March 2006.
The USDA Graduate School: Government Training in Statistics and Economics,
1921-45. University of Victoria, Dept of Economics, Brown Bag Seminar,
September 2009.
Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics.
Fagg Foster Distinguished Speaker, Department of Economics, University of Denver,
May 2010.
Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics.
Cercle d’épistémologie économique, University of Paris I, May 2010.
Science and social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics,
1918-1947. Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University,
September 2010.
Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
University of Victoria, Dept of Economics, Brown Bag Seminar, February, 2011.
Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
History of Economic Thought Seminar, Dept of Economics, University of Toronto,
March, 2011.
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Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.
Economic Growth Centre and Division of Economics, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2011.
Two seminars on The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947:
Science and Social Control. Center for the History of Political Economy, Summer
Institute, Duke University, June 2012.
Two seminars on The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947,
and Walton Hamilton and the Control of Industry, Center for the History of Political
Economy, Summer Institute, Duke University, June 2013.
TEACHING:
Courses Taught
Principles of Economics
Intermediate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
History of Economic Thought (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Institutional Economics
Environmental Economics
Honours Seminar (Methodology, Institutional Economics)
Directed Studies (Undergraduate and Graduate: History of Economics, Methodology,
Institutional Economics, Economics and Philosophy, Islamic Economics)
Teaching Workshops
Active Learning Workshop, Spring 2003.
Acknowledging Diversity Teaching Workshop, Fall 2004.
International Student Teaching Workshop, Spring 2005.
Publications on Teaching
The Use of Computer Games in Education: A Critique. Economics 2 (1976): 31-36.
Graduate Supervision
Chair of Supervisory Committee for ten MA Economics students.
Co-Supervisor for one MA Economics Student.
Member of Supervisory Committee for one PhD Economics student, one MA
Economics student, two MA History students, one MA Anthropology student, and
one MA Psychology student.
Member of Supervisory Committee of a PhD student at the University of Florence.
External examiner for MA theses in Anthropology, History (twice), Political Science,
Public Administration (five times), Sociology, and PhD thesis in Economics,
University of Auckland.
Chair of MA oral examinations in Economics, Sociology (twice), Political Science
(twice), Psychology, Geography (twice), Public Administration (six times),
Environmental Studies, Social Work, and Pacific and Asian Studies (twice). Chair of
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PhD oral examinations in Geography, Earth and Ocean Sciences (twice), and
Education.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Listed in Who's Who in Economics (third edition). Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1999.
Created and maintain web site of Famous Economists’ Grave Sites.
Interviewed for Economics Playground by Tiago Mata:
(http://historyofeconomics.wordpress.com/?s=malcolm+Rutherford)
Interviewed for Uludağ Journal of Economy and Society by Feridun Yilmaz
(Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2011, pp. 211-218)
Member:
American Economics Association
History of Economics Society
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Canadian Association for Law and Economics
European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Offices:
President, History of Economics Society (1996/97).
President, Association for Evolutionary Economics (2008)
Elected Executive Committee Member, History of Economics Society (1985-88).
Vice-President, History of Economics Society (1990/91).
President-Elect, History of Economics Society (1995/96).
Past President, Executive Committee Member, and Chair of Distinguished Fellow
Nominating Committee, History of Economics Society (1997/1998).
Chair of Search Committee for Editor of JHET, History of Economics Society (1998
and 2006-7).
Past President, Executive Committee Member, Member of Distinguished Fellow
Nominating Committee, Member of Nominating Committee, and Member of Search
Committee for Secretary Treasurer, History of Economics Society (1998/99).
Chair of Nominating Committee and member of Distinguished Fellow Nominating
Committee, History of Economics Society (1999/00)
Member of Nominating Committee, History of Economics Society (2002 and 2003)
Member of Dorfman Prize (Best Dissertation) Committee, History of Economics
Society (2009/10) Chair (2010/11)
Member of the Nominating Committee, Association for Evolutionary Economics
(1993).
Elected Member of the Board, Association for Evolutionary Economics (2000-2003)
Member of Committee on Electronic Possibilities, Association for Evolutionary
Economics (2000-2004, 2007-9), Chair (2001 and 2002).
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President-Elect, Association for Evolutionary Economics (2007)
Member, Committee on Publications, Association for Evolutionary Economics (2008)
Ad Hoc Committee on Transition Issues, Association for Evolutionary Economics,
Chair (2009)
Member, Committee on Membership, Association for Evolutionary Economics,
(2011)
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Regional and International Conferences, Association
for Evolutionary Economics, (2013)
Member, Nominating Committee for the Veblen-Commons Award, Association for
Evolutionary Economics, (2014 and 2015)
Member, Elinor Ostrom Prize Committee, World Interdisciplinary Network for
Institutional Research (2014 and 2015)
Member, Mark Blaug Prize Committee, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and
Economics (2014)
Co-organizer (with Mary Morgan) of the Network for the History of American
Economics (1994-1998).
Editorial Boards:
Member of the Editorial Board of History of Political Economy (Jan. 1988-Dec
2012).
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Economic Issues (Three year term, Jan.
1992 - Dec 1994).
Member of the Editorial Board of Review of Political Economy (Jan. 1993-Dec
2000).
Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of the History of Economic Thought
(since January 1999).
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Institutional Economics (since June
2004).
Member of the Editorial Board of Storia Del Pensiero Economico (June 2004-June
2011).
Member of the Editorial Board of SSRN working papers in the history of economic
thought (since 2006).
Member of the Editorial Board of Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
(since April 2008).
Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of History of Economic Thought and
Policy (since July 2011)
Frequent referee for History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, Journal of Economic Issues, European Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, and occasional referee for Journal of Institutional Economics,
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Review of Social
Economy, History of Economic Ideas, Canadian Journal of Economics, Storia Del
Pensiero Economico, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of
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Economic Literature, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Feminist Economics, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, Review of Political Economy, Journal of
Economic Psychology, Economics and Philosophy, History of Economics Review,
Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences,
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, British Journal of Sociology, Labor
History, Industrial Relations, Journal of History of Economic Thought and Policy,
and Cahiers d’Economie Politique.
Referee for SSHRC grant applications (History of Economic Thought,
Institutional/Evolutionary Economics); Killam research grant (History of
Economics); National Science Foundation Grants (US) (History of Economic
Measurement; Applied Welfare Economics); Falkland Research Grant (American
Philosophical Society); Austrian Science Fund grant (History of Economics).
External Referee on four tenure cases (Jan. 1990, Dec. 1990, March 2005, Sept
2011), three promotion to associate professor case (April 1995, Aug 2010, October
2013), seven promotion to full professor cases (Jan. 1993; Oct. 1993; Jan. 1996; Nov.
1997; April 1998, Aug. 1998, Nov. 1998), and one appointment at full professor case
(March 2015).
Reviewer of book mss. for Greenwood Press, Harper and Row, Freeman, Routledge,
M. E. Sharpe, and Cambridge, and of book proposals for Cambridge, Routledge,
Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford, and Academic Press.
Conference Organizer:
History of Economics Society, Winter Meetings, New Orleans, 1992.
History of Economics Society, Annual Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., 1996.
History of Political Economy Conference, Durham, N.C., 1997 (with Mary Morgan).
Association for Evolutionary Economics Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2008.
Conference Session Organizer:
History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 1988 (2 sessions on the Old and New
Institutional Economics).
History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 1989 (Session on J.R. Commons).
History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 1996 (Roundtable on American
Economics).
History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 1999 (Session on Interwar American
Economics).
History of Economics Society Winter Meeting 2001 (Session on Columbia Econ).
History of Economics Society Winter Meetings 2003 (Session on Institutionalism and
Chicago Economics).
History of Economics Society Annual Meeting 2005 (Session on LSE and English
Economics).
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Session Chair:
History of Economics Society Meetings 1987-88, 1991, 1995-2000, 2003-2007, 2011,
2013-15.
Association for Evolutionary Economics Meetings, 2008.
Malvern Political Economy Conference 1992 and 1994.
Conference on The History of Heterodox Economics 2002.
European Society for the History of Economic Thought Meetings 2005, 2012, 2014.
Singapore Economic Review Conference 2011.
World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Meetings,
Boston, September 2016.
Discussant:
History of Economics Society Meetings 1986-87, 1991-92, 1994-96, and 1998-2000,
2002-2007, 2011-12, 2014-15; Winter Meetings (ASSA) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011.
Association for Evolutionary Economics Meetings 1996, 2008.
Conference on The History of Heterodox Economics 2002.
Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought Meetings 2003.
Conference on the History and Philosophy of Money, 2004.
European Society for the History of Economic Thought Meetings 2005, 2012, 2014.
Attendee:
History of Economic Thought Meetings, Durham, UK, 1975.
History of Economics Society Annual Meetings 1981-88, 1991-2008, 2011-15.
Eastern Economics Association Meeting 1984.
AUTE/Royal Economics Society Meetings, Cambridge, UK, 1986.
American Economics Association/ASSA Meetings 1986-87, 1990, 1992, 1995-96,
1999-2001, 2003-2009, 2011, 2013.
Canadian Business History Conference 1988.
Special Conference on J.A. Hobson, Malvern, UK, 1990.
History of Science Society Conference 1990.
Malvern Political Economy Conference, Malvern,UK, 1992 and 1994.
HOPE Conference on Transactors and Their Markets 1993.
Canadian Macro Study Group Conference 1993.
Institutionalism and Economics Weekend and Veblen Society Meeting 1994.
HOPE Conference on The Transformation of American Economics 1997.
Conference in Honour of Samuel Hollander, Reflecting on the Canon 1998.
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Meetings, Siena, Italy,
2001.
Special Conference on The History of Heterodox Economics 2002.
Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought Meetings, Brescia and
Palermo, Italy, 2003, 2004.
Economic History Society Meetings, Durham, UK, 2003.
HOPE conference on the Role of Government in the History of Political Economy
2004.
Conference on the History and Philosophy of Money 2004.
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Japanese Society for the History of American Economics, Tokyo, 2005.
European Society for the History of Economic Thought Conference: Stirling, UK,
2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2012; Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014.
Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought 2007.
Conference on the History and Philosophy of Economics 2010.
XIII International Conference of the Association Charles Gide for the Study of
Economic Though, Paris, 2010.
Berle II Symposium, 2011.
HOPE Conference on the History of Observation in Economics, 2011.
Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore 2011.
Economic History Association of Brazil Conference, Curitiba, Brazil, 2011.
Portugese Association for Economic and Social History, Coimbra, Portugal, 2011.
Social Science History Association Meetings, Vancouver, 2012.
HISRECO Conference Cergy, France, 2013.
HOPE Conference on Market Failure in Context, Duke University, 2014.
Conference on The Legacy of the First Chicago School of Economics, Becker
Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2015.
World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Meetings,
Boston, September 2016.
ADMINISTRATION:
Departmental Committees and Responsibilities
Chair of the Department of Economics (1991/92-1998/99; on leave 1996-97).
Committee on Reappointment Promotion and Tenure (1979-85; 1986-89; 19992010).
Honours Program Supervisor (1979-1984 and 1990/91).
Departmental Curriculum Committee (1979-81 and 2003-4).
Departmental Advisory Committee (1981-84, 1988-90, 2000-02).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Honours Program (1982).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee on Areas of Specialization (Chair)(1982 and 1983).
Graduate Committee, Finance Officer (1983-1985).
Acting Chair (July-August 1983, December 1988, June 1991).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee on Enrolment Limitations (Chair)(1984).
Economics 201/202 Coordinator (1984-85 and 1987-91).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee on Ph.D. Program proposal (Chair)(1985).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee on Student Representation (Chair)(1986).
Chair's Ad Hoc Search Committee (Ec. History Position) (1987).
Pacific Rim Committee (1987-88).
Chair's Ad Hoc Committee on the Graduate Program (1987-88).
Chair's Ad Hoc Graduate Program Committee (Chair) (1990).
Chair’s Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee (Chair) (1999).
Chair’s Ad Hoc Pixel Point Committee (Chair) (2000).
Chair’s Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Undergraduate Theory Sequence (2001).
Economics 103 Coordinator (2001-02).
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Chair’s Ad Hoc Committee on Writing for Economists (2002).
Departmental Equity Committee (2003-7); (Chair 2005-7).
Search Committee—Faculty Positions (2004-05), (2012-13).
Chairs Ad Hoc Committee for the External Review (2005).
Graduate Committee (2005-06)
Econ 225 Oversight Committee (2005-09; 2010-12)(Chair 05-08)
Econ 103/104 Oversight Committee (2008-09; 2010-12) (Chair)
Planning Committee (2007-2009; 2010)
Search Committee—Senior Lab Instructor (2008-09 and 2010)
Search Committee—Senior Instructor (2008-09)
Undergraduate Committee for External Review (2011-12)
Faculty and University Committees
Faculty of Arts and Science Curriculum Committee (1980-1984), Secretary (198184).
Advisory Committee on Environmental Studies (1980-1984), Executive (1981-1983).
Search Committee for the Chairmanship of the Department of Economics (1981,
1982, 2005, 2008).
University Review Committee (1985).
Senate Committee on Admission and Registration (1987-9).
Faculty of Arts and Science Advisory Committee (1987-9), Secretary (1988/89).
President's Committee on Research and Travel -- Social Science Sub-committee (Fall
1992; 1993-96; 1997-98)(Chair 1993/94).
Budget Review Team -- Facilities Management (1996).
Search Committee for the Dean of Science (1997-98).
University Bargaining Team -- Specialist Instructional Contract Negotiations (1998).
Search Committee for the Chair of Political Science (2001 and 2005/6).
Faculty of Social Sciences Advisory Committee (2001-02 and 2007-09).
Senate Budget Committee (2001-2).
Faculty of Humanities Ad Hoc Committee on the University English Requirement
(2001-2).
Search Committee for the Dean of Social Science (2004).
Faculty of Social Sciences Equity and Diversity Committee (2005-7).
Search Committee for the Chair of Economics (2005 and 2008).
University Planning and Priorities Committee (Faculty Representative) (2005-13).