Department of Political Economy
The University of Sydney
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Dr Evan Jones

Dr Evan Jones of the Department of Political Science at the University of Sydney, Australia  

BCom Melb. MA Mich. State. PhD Mich. State

 
  Phone 9351 6617
  FAX 9351 8596
  Location Room 454
H04 Merewether Building
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Dr Evan Jones joined the Faculty in 1973 and taught in the political economy program since that time. His research interests are in the political economy of industry and economic policy, Australian economic development, and in the methodology and sociology of the economics discipline.

Dr Jones’ publications have appeared in the Economic Record, the Review of Radical Political Economics, the Journal of Australian Political Economy, the History of Economics Review, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. He has written extensively for the respectable press and is the co-author of a textbook, Engineering and Society.

Research Interests

 
  • Australian Economic and Social Policy
  • Political economy of industry policy
  • Post World War II Australian economic history
  • Bank malfeasance against small business customers
  • Small business subordination to corporate business in the marketplace

Publications

 

2008

Report/s

Jones E 2008 Submission to the Review of Australia's Export Policies and Programs initiated by Trade Minister Mr Simon Crean, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, May 2008

Short Article/s

Jones E 2008 'Why the St. George Takeover Matters', New Matilda, 20 May.

Unpublished Paper/s

Jones E 2008 'Shadow Ledgers and the Default Process in the Australian Banking Sector' [co-author John Salmon], March.

2007

Report/s

Jones E 2007 Submission to the Inquiry into the Provisions of the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No.1) 2007 & Trade Practices Amendment (Predatory Pricing) Bill 2007, July 2007

Short Article/s

Jones E 2007 ‘Rudd lets Industry Policy out of the Closet’, Centre for Policy Development, 27 January 2007

Jones E 2007 ‘The French Other’, New Matilda, 18 April

Jones E 2007 ‘Small business suffers under a weak Trade Practices Act’, Canberra Times, 12 June.

Jones E 2007 ‘Howard the Infallible’, New Matilda, 20 June.

Jones E 2007 ‘What Labor Can Learn From Itself’, New Matilda, 18 July.

Jones E 2007 ‘What’s Wrong with the Reserve Bank’, New Matilda, 15 August.

Jones E 2007 ‘Law Firms and the Big End of Town’, New Matilda, 23 October.

Jones E 2007 ‘The Raid on Great Western: Why an Australian Bank Might Spell Doom for the American Farm Belt’, Counterpunch, 12 December.

Unpublished Paper/s

Jones E 2007 ‘The National Australia Bank v Walter/Palatinat: A Case Study in the Adverse Small Business Environment in Australia’, April.

2006

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2006 'Galbraith´s Lessons in Death', Australian Review of Public Affairs (online), vol.11.

Jones E 2006 'J. K. Galbraith´, Obituary', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.57:June.

Jones E 2006 'The Charlatanry of Milton Friedman Obituary', Workers Online, vol.1:December.

Jones E 2006 'The Evolution of Industry Policy under Howard', Australian Review of Public Affairs (online).

Jones E 2006 'The Experience of a Deregulated Finance Sector', Arena, vol.82:April-May.

Conference Proceeding/s

Jones E 2006 'Macroeconomic Policy and Industrial Structure: Contested Parameters of Economic Policy in Post-World War II Australia', Fifth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference , UNSW.

2005

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2005 'Industry Policy in the 1990s: Working Nation, its Context and Beyond', Journal of Economic and Social Policy, vol.9:2, pp. 35-53.

Jones E 2005 'Liquor Retailing and the Coles/Woolworths Juggernaut', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.55, pp. 23-47.

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 2005 'Small Business - Corporate Business Relations: Dimensions of structural subordination in Australia', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.(319Kb)

Jones E 2005 'The Foreign Currency Loan Experience in 1980s Australia with particular reference to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia : bank documents, bank culture, and foreign currency loan litigation', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.(290Kb)

Jones E 2005 'The Foreign Currency Loan Experience in 1980s Australia: Dwyer v Commonwealth Bank of Australia - A case study in litigation culture', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science. (284Kb)

2004

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2004 'On first looking into Edwards´ Keating', The Drawing Board - Digest.

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 2004 'The Banks and Small Business Borrowers: case studies of adversity': University of Sydney, School of Economics and Political Science. (860Kb)

2003

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2003 'Nugget Coombs and his place in the postwar order', The Drawing Board, vol.4:1, pp. 23-44.

Report/s

Jones E 2003 'The Effectiveness of the 1974 Trade Practices Act in Protecting Small Business', Submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry.

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 2003 'Macroeconomic Policy and Industrial Structure: Contested Parameters of Economic Policy in Post-World War II Australia', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.(243Kb)

2002

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2002 'Against Economics by Rajani Kanth', Review of Radical Political Economics, vol.34:3, pp. 371-374.

Jones E 2002 'Australia and the Global Trade System: from Havana to Seattle by Ann Capling', The Drawing Board.

Jones E 2002 'Menzies' Razor Gang: Public Service Retrenchment in 1951', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, vol.104, pp. 33-36.

Jones E 2002 'Post-World War Two Industry Policy: Opportunities and Constraints', Australian Economic History Review, vol.42:3, pp. 312-33.

Jones E 2002 'Rural Finance in Australia: A Troubled History', Rural Society, vol.12:2, pp. 160-180.

Jones E 2002 'Straw Polls, Paper Money by David Love', The Drawing Board.

Jones E 2002 'The Ascendancy of an Idealist Economics in Australia', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.50, pp. 44-71.

Jones E 2002 'The Employment of German Scientists in Australia after World War II', Prometheus, vol.20:4, pp. 305-321.

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 2002 'The Employment of German Scientists in Australia after World War II': Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.(107Kb)

2001

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2001 'Book Review - Main Currents in Cumulative Causation: The Dynamics of Growth and Development - Toner Phillip', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, vol.99, pp. 74-75.

Jones E 2001 'I Think therefore It Is', The Drawing Board - Digest.

Jones E 2001 'The Industrial Finance Department: an Australian Experiment in Small Business Finance', Australian Economic History Review, vol.41:2, pp. 176-197.

Jones E 2001 'The purse strings and the policy process:Bureaucratic shaping of industry policy after 1945', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol.60:1, pp. 21-33.

Conference Paper/s

Jones E 2001 'Economic Rationalism: Character, Origins and Effect',Independent Scholars' Association of Australia, State Library.

Jones E 2001 'Treasury Control Revisited', Department of Government, University of Queensland.

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 2001 'Post- World War II Industry Policy : Opportunities and Constraints': Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

Jones E 2001 'The Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool: A Case Study in Strategic Public Enterprise and the Politics of Privatisation': Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

2000

Book Section/s

Jones E 2000 'A Perspective on Economics' in Engineering and Society, ed. Stephen Johnston, J. Paul Gostelow and W. Joseph King, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey pp. 211-273 and 180-183.

Journal Article/s

Jones E 2000 'Economic Utopia and its Handmaidens', The Drawing Board.

Jones E 2000 'Open Australia, by Lindsay Tanner; Civilising Global Capital, by Mark Latham; Australia at the Crossroads: radical free market or a progressive liberalism?, by Fred Argy', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, vol.95, pp. 83-86.

Jones E 2000 'The Howard Government's Industry Policy', Economic Papers, vol.19:3, pp. 60-75.

Conference Paper/s

Jones E 2000 'The Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool: a Case Study in Strategic Public Enterprise and the Politics of Privatisation',Australasian Economic and Maritime History Conference, University of Wollongong.

Jones E 2000 'The Politics of Industry Policy after World War II', Department of Economics, University of Newcastle.

1999

Book/s

Jones E, Johnston S and Gostelow P 1999 Engineering and Society: An Australian Perspective, Addison Wesley Longman, South Melbourne.

Journal Article/s

Jones E 1999 'The multifarious character of dissent', History of Economics Review, vol.29, pp. 121-129.

1998

Journal Article/s

Jones E 1998 'In search of McEwenism', Journal of Economic and Social Policy, vol.3:1, pp. 96-104.

1997

Journal Article/s

Jones E 1997 'Background to Australia Reconstructed', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.39.

Jones E 1997 'Recent Developments in Wage Determination', Ecodate, vol.11.

Jones E 1997 'Tunnel Vision: The failure of political imagination [James Walter]', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, vol.86.

Jones E 1997 'What do Economists Do, Who are They, and Does it Matter?' History of Economics Review, vol.26.

1994

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 1994 'Bureaucratic Politics and Economic Policy: The Evolution of Trade Policy in the 1970s and 1980s': Department of Economics, University of Sydney.

1993

Internal Working Paper/s

Jones E 1993 'The Macroeconomic Fetish in Anglo-American Economies', Sydney: Department of Economics, University of Sydney

Current Supervising Postgraduates

 
Amer Saleem Khan