Academy Fellow

Professor Tony Aspromourgos is 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 are concerned with the thought of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes' policy views, and the question of public debt sustainability.

• 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 - )

SELECT PUBLICATIONS ONLY & ONLY FOR RECENT YEARS:

Tony Aspromourgos (2009), The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy. London: Routledge

Tony Aspromourgos, D Rees and G White (2010), Public Debt Sustainability and Alternative Theories of Interest, in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol 34 (No 3): 433-447

Tony Aspromourgos (2011), Adam Smith and the Division of Labour among the Social Sciences, in Review of Political Economy, Vol 23 (No 1): 81-94

Tony Aspromourgos (2011), Can (and Should) Monetary Policy Pursue a Zero Real Interest Rate, Permanently?, in Metroeconomica, Vol 62 (No 4): 635-655

(2012) ‘Keynes’s General Theory After 75 Years: Chapter 24 and the Character of “Keynesian” Policy’, Economic Record Vol 88 (Special Issue, June): 149–57

(2012) ‘The Machine in Adam Smith’s Economic and Wider Thought’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought Vol 34 (No 4): 475–90

(2012) ‘The Managerialist University: an Economic Interpretation’, Australian Universities Review Vol 54 (No 2): 44–49

(2013) ‘Adam Smith on Labour and Capital’, in C.J Berry, M.P. Paganelli and C. Smith (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 267–89

(2013) ‘Sraffa’s System in Relation to Some Main Currents in Unorthodox Economics’, in E.S. Levrero, A. Palumbo and A. Stirati (eds) Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory, vol. 3 (Sraffa’s Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan): 15–33

(2014) ‘Higher Education “Markets” and University Governance’, in M. Thornton (ed.) Through a Glass Darkly: the Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University (Canberra: ANU Press: 79–88

(2014) ‘Keynes, Employment Policy and the Question of Public Debt’, Review of Political Economy Vol 26 (No 4): 574–93

(2014) ‘Keynes, Lerner, and the Question of Public Debt’, History of Political Economy Vol 46 (No 3): 409–33

(2015) ‘Profits’, in J.D. Wright (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edn (Oxford: Elsevier): vol. 19, 111–16 [section 10.3: History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (subsection: History of Concepts, Ideas, Theories)]

(2015) ‘Thomas Piketty, the Future of Capitalism and the Theory of Distribution’, Metroeconomica Vol 66 (No 2): 284-305

(2016) ‘Adam Smith (1723–1790)’, in G. Faccarello and H.D. Kurz (eds) Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, vol. 1 (Great Economists since Petty and Boisguilbert) (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar): 57–72.

(2018) ‘Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40 (4): 493–512.

(2018) ‘Mazzucato on Value and Productive Activity: a Review’, History of Economics Review 70 (1): 72–82.

(2019) ‘The Past and Future of Keynesian Economics: a Review Essay’, History of Economics Review, forthcoming.

(2019) ‘What is Supply-and-Demand? The Marshallian Cross Versus Classical Economics’, Review of Political Economy 31 (1): 26–41.

(2020) ‘Rationalizing the Supply-and-Demand Cross, 1838–1890’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 (2): forthcoming.