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Dr William Jackson
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Profile

Biography

  • BA(Econ)(Manchester)
  • MSc(London)
  • PhD(Warwick)

Departmental roles

  • Programme Director, MSc in Economics and Public Policy
  • Combined Board Executive Committee, History/Economics
  • Environment Board of Studies, Economics representative
  • Exceptional Circumstances Committee, PG programmes
  • Module Review Committee (ex officio, PG Director Economics and Public Policy)

Research

Overview

Main research interests are in the economics of population ageing, economic methodology, and institutional and non-neoclassical economic theory. Topics of recent and current research include:

  • The economic consequences of population ageing in developed countries
  • Connections between economic theory and social theory
  • Causal and functional explanation in economics
  • The role of culture, social structure and institutions in economic theorising

Publications

Selected publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

  • ‘The ethics of price variation’, Forum for Social Economics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2022.2080753.

  • ‘Economics versus literature’ (L’economia contro la letteratura), Narrativa, 2020, 42, 25-38.

  • Markets: Perspectives from Economic and Social Theory, London: Routledge, 2019.

  • ‘Active and passive trading relations’, Journal of Economic Issues, 2019, 53(1), 98-114.

  • ‘Strategic pluralism and monism in heterodox economics’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, 50(2), 237-251.

  • 'Markets as dualistic, semi-decentralized organizations', Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-023-00111-z.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Third Year

  • Economics of Social Policy
  • Alternative Perspectives in Economics

Postgraduate

  • Public Policy Analysis
 

William A Jackson

William Jackson
Lecturer
Department of Economics
Room: A/EC/015

Tel: 01904 323773

william.jackson@york.ac.uk 

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