Academy Fellow

Dr Jonathan Pincus is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. Previously, he was the Principal Adviser Research at the Productivity Commission (2002-2008); the George Gollin Professor of Economics (1991 - 2002), and Convenor of Academic Board at the University of Adelaide; and Professor and Head, Discipline of Economic History, Flinders University (1985 - 1990); and Fellow in Economic History at ANU.

He is a co-opted member of Central Council of the Economic Society of Australia and past-president of the SA branch.

His main research interests are in federalism and microeconomic policy.

• Productivity Commission, Melbourne and Canberra: Principal Adviser Research, 10/2002 to 01/2008.
• The University of Adelaide: George Gollin Professor of Economics, 1991 – 2002.
• The Flinders University of South Australia: Professor and Head, Discipline of Economic History, 1985 – 1990.
• Australian National University: Research Fellow in Economic History, 1972 – 1974; Fellow, 1974 – 1985.
• Simon Fraser University: Assistant Professor/Instructor, 1969 – 1972.
• BP Australia, Brisbane: Junior Executive Trainee, 1958-63. .

• 2015 Distinguished Public Policy Fellow, Economic Society of Australia
• Who's Who in Economics, 1986 to date.
• Best paper in 2010 Economic Papers, awarded by the Economic Society of Australia (jointly with Henry Ergas and Mark Harrison).
• University of Melbourne, Department of Economics and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Inaugural Annual Lecturer on Public Policy, 2008. Published in Australian Economic Review 42.2 (June 2009).
• Hall of Fame, [Australian] PhD Conference in Economics and Business, 2007.
• Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History 1973 (awarded by the [American] Economic History Association, on behalf of Columbia University Press, for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed during the previous year).
• Australian-American Education Foundation (Fulbright) Senior Scholar Travel Award, 1976.
• Canada Council Dissertation Grant, 1970.
• Australian-American Education Foundation (Fulbright) Postgraduate Student Travel Grant, 1965.

• ‘Socialism in Six Colonies: the aftermath’ in William Coleman (ed.), Only in Australia: The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism, 166-187 (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
• ‘Federalism in the Menzies Years’, in J.R. Nethercote (ed.), The Menzies Achievement (forthcoming with Federation Press).
• ‘The wealth of the nation’, in J.R. Nethercote (ed.), The Menzies Achievement (forthcoming with Federation Press), (with Henry Ergas).
• ‘Infrastructure and Colonial Socialism,’ Cambridge Economic History of Australia, Simon Ville and Glenn Withers, eds (with Henry Ergas) 2014.
• ‘Public Choice Theory had Negligible Effect on Australian Microeconomic Policy, 1970s to 2000s’, History of Economics Review 59 (Winter) 2014.
• 'Have mining royalties been beneficial to Australia?’, Economic Papers 33.1 (March) 2014: 13-28) (with Henry Ergas).
• ‘Land Assemblage: Efficiency and Equity in Public-Private Projects’, in Thomas J. Miceli and Matthew J. Baker, eds, Economic Models of Law, Edward Elgar (with Zackary Grossman and Perry Shapiro, 2014)
• ‘Polygeneration of liquid fuels and electricity by the atmospheric pressure hybrid solar gasification of coal,’ Energy & Fuels (2013) 27: 3538-55; last-named co-author with Ashok Kaniyal, Philip van Eyk, Graham Nathan and Peter Ashman).
• ‘Fiscal Equity in Federal Systems’, Review of Law and Economics, (December 31, 2010) vol. 6, Iss. 3, Article 3 http://www.bepress.com/rle/vol6/iss3/art3 (with Geoffrey Brennan)
• ‘The potential role of data-centres in enabling investment in geothermal energy”, Applied Energy 98, October 2012: 458–466 (with Ashok A. Kaniyal and Graham J. Nathan) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261912002954
• A Greater Australia: population, policies and governance, Melbourne, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), 2012, ISBN 0 85801 279 0, 234 pages (co-editor with Graeme Hugo); Introduction, pp. 6 - 15 (with G Hugo); Chapter 4.1: The economic effects of population growth and migration, pp. 16 - 184 (with Judith Sloan) http://ceda.com.au/media/204245/populationreport2012final.pdfJ.J. Pincus and Perry Shapiro (2008)
• ‘Some economics of mining taxes’, Economic Papers, 29.4: 369-383 (December 2010) (with Henry Ergas and Mark Harrison).
• “Between forced resumption and voluntary sale: a mechanism for the collective sale or transfer of irrigation water”, Economic Papers 27.4 (December 2008), pp. 101-110 (with Perry Shapiro).
• Brennan and J.J. Pincus (2002) Australia's Economic Institutions, in Australia Reshaped: 200 years of institutional transformation, G. Brennan and F.G. Castles (eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• JJ Pincus (2001) Liberalism and Australian Economic and Industrial Development, in Liberalism and the Australian Federation, JR Nethercote (eds.). Annadale: Federation Press.
• PW Miller and JJ Pincus (1998) Financing Higher Education in Australia: the Case for SuperHECS, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
• G Brennan and JJ Pincus (1996) A minimalist model of federal grants and flypaper effects, Journal of Public Economics, 61.
• Pressure Groups and the Pattern of Tariffs, Journal of Political Economy, May/June 1975, pp. 757-78. Reprinted in Forrest Capie, ed., Protectionism in the World Economy, (Edward Elgar, 1993); in David Lake, ed., The International Political Economy of Trade, (Edward Elgar); and in Knick C. Harley (ed.), The Integration of the World Economy, 1850-1914. (Edward Elgar, 1996).