Academy Fellow

Professor Tony Aspromourgos is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, University of Sydney. Professor Aspromourgos specialises in the history of economic thought, monetary economics and macroeconomics. His most recent research activities have concerned the thought of John Maynard Keynes' policy views and the interrelationship between nature and the human economy.

• Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney (1985 - 1989)
• Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney (1990 - 1997)
• Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney (1998 - 2005)
• Professor of Economics, University of Sydney (2006 - 2019)
• Emeritus Professor of Economics (2019 - )

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2020:

1. (2020) 'Invisible Hand', in M. Vernengo, E.P. Caldentey & B.J. Rosser Jr (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 3rd edn (London: Palgrave Macmillan).
2. (2020) ‘Rationalizing the Supply-and-Demand Cross, 1838–1890’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 (2): 194-208.
3. (2022) 'A New Foundation for Keynesian Economics?', Metroeconomica 73 (1): 4-9 [part of a Symposium on Y. Shiozawa, M. Morioka & K. Taniguchi (2019) Microfoundations of Evolutionary Economics].
4. (2023) 'Smith at 300: on Regulation of the Labour Contract', Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45 (2): 206-07 [one among a collection of short commentaries on authors' favourite Smith quotations, to mark the tercentenary of Adam Smith's birth].
5. (2024) Nature and Economic Society: a Classical-Keynesian Synthesis, London: Routledge.
6. (2024) [Review of] A. Ortmann & B. Walraevens (2022) Adam Smith's System: a Re-interpretation Inspired by Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric, Game Theory, and Conjectural History (Palgrave Macmillan), Journal of the History of Economic Thought 46 (1): 159-62.
7. (2025) 'Keynes, Policy and Environmental Crisis', European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 32 (6): 00-00.
8. (2025) [Review of] H.M. Krämer, C.R. Proaño and M. Setterfield (2023) Capitalism, Inclusive Growth, and Social Protection: Inherent Contradictions or Achievable Vision? (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar), Review of Keynesian Economics 13 (2): 335-7.
9. (2026) 'Maximizing Profits Versus Maximizing Revenue: a Note on Adam Smith's Invisible Hand', Review of Political Economy : forthcoming.
10. (2026) 'Intellectual History as a Mode of Social Science', European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33 (6): forthcoming.
11. (2026) 'Two Manuscripts of William Petty', History of Economic Ideas: forthcoming [a revised version of (2025) 'Two Manuscripts of William Petty', Centro Sraffa Working Papers no. 71, April].