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Associate Professor Graham White

BComm UNSW, MEc Sydney, PhD Melbourne
Associate Professor

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The University of Sydney

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Biographical details

Graham White´s research interests have centered on the issues associated with synthesising Sraffian-inspired pricing models with Keynesian models of output and growth, as a non-orthodox theoretical foundation for examining economic phenomena.


Graham’s published research as well as his work-in-progress applies a heterodox perspective to a cross-section of fields within economics: growth theory, disequilibrium dynamics, macroeconomic theory and policy, issues in traditional microeconomics and the economics of the environment.
Graham’s current research (see below on recent working papers) is focused on learning in a demand-led growth setting; a Sraffian view of competition and it’s connection with economic growth; and a critique of the New Keynesian view of aggregate demand from a Sraffian perspective.

His major publications include:

“Australia's Clean Energy Policy: taxing carbon and the illusion of the equity objective Ecological Economics”, Ecological Economics, forthcoming 2013 (co-authored with S. Rosewarne and N. Perry);

“Competition, welfare and macroeconomics: a classical/Sraffian perspective”, Review of Political Economy; forthcoming 2013;

Labour, commodities and the labour market: a heterodox perspective, Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2010.

“Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest”. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2010. (Co-authored with A. Aspromourgos and D. Rees)

“Growth, autonomous demand and a joint product treatment of fixed capital’, Metroeconomica, 2008;

“Demand-led growth and the classical/Sraffian approach to value and distribution: Are they compatible?’ in Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, edited by Neri Salvadori and published by Edward Elgar, 2006;

"Capital, Distribution and Macroeconomics: 'Core' Beliefs and Theoretical Foundations", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004;

“Rethinking Kalecki on the Trend and Cycle’, Review of Political Economy, 1999;

“Disequilibrium Pricing and the Sraffa-Keynes Synthesis’, Review of Political Economy 1998;

“Classical Competition, Keynesian Adjustment And Composite Dynamics: A Critical Perspective’, Economie Appliquee, 1996;

“Capacity Utilization, Investment and Normal Prices: Some Issues in the Sraffa-Keynes Synthesis’. Metroeconomica, 1996; and,

“Normal prices and the Theory of Output: Some Significant Implications of Recent Debate”, Political Economy: Studies in the Surplus Approach, 1989.

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Research interests

  • Economic Policy and Economic Development
  • Macroeconomics and Growth
  • Disequilibrium analysis
  • Growth theory
  • Macroeconomics
  • Sraffian economics

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Selected grants

2001

  • Economic growth, long-run changes in the use of productive capacity and investment demand in a multi-commodity model of the economy; White G; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Research & Development.
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Selected publications

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Book Chapters

  • White, G. (2006). Demand-led growth and the classical approach to value and distribution: Are they compatible? In Neri Salvadori (Eds.), Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, (pp. 148-178). Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Journals

  • Perry, N., Rosewarne, S., White, G. (2013). Clean energy policy: Taxing carbon and the illusion of the equity objective. Ecological Economics, 90, 104-113.
  • White, G. (2011). [Book Review] Paul Davidson, John Maynard Keynes. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 22(2), 165-168.
  • White, G. (2010). Labour, Commodities and the Labour Market: A Heterodox Perspective. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 21(1), 89-104.
  • Aspromourgos, A., Rees, D., White, G. (2010). Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(3), 433-447.
  • White, G. (2008). Growth, autonomous demand and a joint-product treatment of fixed capital. Metroeconomica, 59(1), 1-26.
  • White, G. (2004). Capital, Distribution And Macroeconomics: 'Core' Beliefs And Theoretical Foundations. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28(4), 527-547.
  • White, G. (2001). The Poverty of Conventional Economic Wisdom and the Search for Alternative Economic and Social Policies. The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 2, 67-87.

Conferences

  • White, G. (2012). The New Keynesian view of aggregate demand:some reflections from a Sraffian standpoint. 11th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2012, Sydney: Australian Society of Heterodox Economists.
  • White, G. (2011). Degrees of competition, the rate of return and growth from a Classical/Sraffian perspective. 10th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2011, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.
  • White, G. (2009). Demand-led growth in a multi-commodity model with learning: Some preliminary results. 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2009, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.
  • White, G. (2009). Garnaut - the economic underpinnings. 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2009, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.

2013

  • Perry, N., Rosewarne, S., White, G. (2013). Clean energy policy: Taxing carbon and the illusion of the equity objective. Ecological Economics, 90, 104-113.

2012

  • White, G. (2012). The New Keynesian view of aggregate demand:some reflections from a Sraffian standpoint. 11th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2012, Sydney: Australian Society of Heterodox Economists.

2011

  • White, G. (2011). [Book Review] Paul Davidson, John Maynard Keynes. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 22(2), 165-168.
  • White, G. (2011). Degrees of competition, the rate of return and growth from a Classical/Sraffian perspective. 10th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2011, Sydney, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.

2010

  • White, G. (2010). Labour, Commodities and the Labour Market: A Heterodox Perspective. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 21(1), 89-104.
  • Aspromourgos, A., Rees, D., White, G. (2010). Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(3), 433-447.

2009

  • White, G. (2009). Demand-led growth in a multi-commodity model with learning: Some preliminary results. 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2009, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.
  • White, G. (2009). Garnaut - the economic underpinnings. 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference SHE 2009, Australia: Society of Heterodox Economists.

2008

  • White, G. (2008). Growth, autonomous demand and a joint-product treatment of fixed capital. Metroeconomica, 59(1), 1-26.

2006

  • White, G. (2006). Demand-led growth and the classical approach to value and distribution: Are they compatible? In Neri Salvadori (Eds.), Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, (pp. 148-178). Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2004

  • White, G. (2004). Capital, Distribution And Macroeconomics: 'Core' Beliefs And Theoretical Foundations. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28(4), 527-547.

2001

  • White, G. (2001). The Poverty of Conventional Economic Wisdom and the Search for Alternative Economic and Social Policies. The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 2, 67-87.
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