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Qualifications

BA (Cambridge), M.Phil (Oxford)

Course development and teaching

Currently member of You and your money: personal finance in context (DB123) presentation team and Personal investment in an uncertain world (DB234) course team. On award board for DB123 and Economics and economic change (DD202). Tutor on DB123.

Research interests

Personal finance, currently focusing on the disintegration of insurance pools and the disincentives to household saving. Other active interests in: Chinese multinational business; impact of ‘academisation’ on knowledge; social economics; foundations of the market economy.

Recent publications

A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Knowledge Monopolies: The Academisation of Society (with M Shipman), Imprint Academic, 2006

University under siege? European Societies 7(1), 2005, 157-85 (with P Baert).

Lauding the leisure class: symbolic content and conspicuous consumption, Review of Social Economy 63(2), 2004, 277-289.

Coal liquefaction, Shenhua Group and China’s energy security, European Management Journal 22(2), 2004, 150-64 (with P Nolan and H Rui)

Pragmatism, realism and the economist/economy divide, Foundations of Science 8(1), 2003, 23-50.

Ignoring commercial reality, in E Fullbrook (ed), The Crisis in Economics London: Routledge, 2003

The Globalization Myth, Icon Books, 2002

Privatized production, socialized consumption? Review of Social Economy 59(3), 2001, 331-352.

Transcending Transaction, Routledge, 2001

The Market Revolution and its Limits, Routledge, 1999

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Other interests

Online education and ‘learning styles’. Future of journalism. Forecasting. Other social sciences’ attempts to account for consciousness.

Last updated: 18 March 2013