Dr Lynne Chester
Bcom Melb
MPubPolicy Syd
Phd UNSW
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Lynne Chester’s research focuses on the application of régulation theory to energy issues and the environment, energy security, electricity generation capacity, energy poverty, markets for electricity and carbon derivatives, markets for goods and services previously provided direct by government, and Australia's institutional architecture. She is currently working with the French CNRS Centre International de Recherche sur L’environment et Le Développement on a project assessing the implications for generation capacity and end-use prices of climate change policies in liberalised electricity markets.
She is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Journal of Australian Political Economy, and Evidence Base, and a reviewer for the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Radical Political Economy, Energy Policy, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, and The Energy Journal. Lynne is also a Committee Member of the UK-based Association of Heterodox Economics and a co-editor of the annual conference proceedings of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists.
Lynne has previously taught at the University of New South Wales and immediately prior to her appointment in Political Economy, had been a Senior Research Fellow at The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University.
Prior to academia, Lynne spent over 25 years working in the Australian public sector including as a senior executive with two of Australia’s largest utilities (EnergyAustralia and Sydney Water), as Chief of Staff to Federal Government Ministers, and an economic adviser to the South Australian Premier. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority and the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, and the 2011 Reference Group for the Federal Government’s forthcoming Energy White Paper.
Publications
2012
Guest editor (with Tae-Jee and Mary King):
‘Beyond market-fundamentalist economics: An agenda for heterodox economics to change the dominant narrative’, On The Horizon, Special Issue, June (forthcoming)
Journal articles:
‘The organisation, operation and outcomes of actually existing markets: A suggested approach for empirical analysis’, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, (forthcoming)
2011
Book chapters:
‘The Australian variant of neoliberal capitalism’ in Cahill, D., Stilwell, F. And Edwards, B. (eds), Neoliberalism: Beyond the free market, Edward Elgar (forthcoming)
‘An inevitable or avertable energy crisis’ in Argyrous, G. And Stilwell, F. (eds), Readings in political economy: Economics as a social science, 3rd edition, Prahran: Tilde University Press, pp.299-306
Refereed conference papers:
‘Another variety of capitalism?: The Australian mode of régulation’, 13th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economists: The economists of tomorrow, Nottingham Trent University, 6-9 July 2011
Reviews:
Review of The hardship of nations: Exploring the paths of modern capitalism edited by Benjamin Coriat, Pascal Petit and Geneviève Schméder, Edward Elgar 2006, Review of Radical Political Economics, 43(3): 414-17
Review of Sustainable Capitalism: A matter of common sense by John Ikerd, Kumarian Press 2005 and Capitalism as if the world matters by Johnathon Porritt, Earthscan 2007, Review of Radical Political Economics, 43(3): 373-77
2010
Books/conference proceedings:
[co-editor with Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P.]
Heterodox economics: Addressing perennial and new challenges, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 9th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 6-7 December 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2957-6
Guest editor:
‘Energy security in the 21st century’, International Journal Global of Energy Issues Special issue, 33(1/2)
Journal articles:
‘Actually existing markets: The case of neoliberal Australia’, Journal of Economic Issues , XLIV (2): 313-23
‘The economic-environment relation: A régulationist approach’, International Journal of Green Economics , 4(1): 17-42
‘Conceptualising energy security and making explicit its polysemic nature’, Energy Policy , 38(2): 887-95 [Available online 11 November 2009]
Refereed conference papers:
(with Alan Morris), ‘Energy poverty: An escalating outcome of liberalised energy markets’, in Chester, L., Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P. (eds), (2010), Heterodox economics: Addressing perennial and new challenges, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 9th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 6-7 December 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2957-6, pp.46-62
2009
Books/conference proceedings:
[co-editor with Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P.] Heterodox economics’ visions, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 7-8 December 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2833-3.
Refereed Conference Papers:
‘Determining the economic-environment relation: A régulationist approach’, in Chester, L., Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P. (eds), (2009), Heterodox economics’ visions, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 7-8 December 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2833-3, pp. 91-114.
‘How can we analyse real world markets’, in Chester, L., Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P. (eds), (2009), Heterodox economics’ visions, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 7-8 December 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2833-3, pp.115-26.
‘Actually existing markets: The case of neoliberal Australia, in Chester, L., Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P. (eds), (2009), Heterodox economics’ visions, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 7-8 December 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2833-3, pp.127-50
.‘Does the polysemic nature of energy security make it a ‘wicked’ problem?’ in Proceedings of International Conference on Energy, Environment, Sustainable Development: EESD09, 24-26 June 2009, Paris, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 54 (S-I): 159-71.
Reviews:
Review of ‘Social structures of accumulation theory: The state of the art’, by Terence McDonough, Review of Radical Political Economics, Spring 2007, 40(2): 153-73. Published at: http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn75/McDonough%20(SSA%20%20theory).doc
Review of ‘What is heterodox economics’, by Tony Lawson, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, July 2006, 30(4): 483-506. Published at: http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn75/Lawson (Heterodox Economics).doc
Review of ‘Rhetoric vs. realism in economic methodology: a critical assessment of recent contributions’, by Peter Fabienne, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2001, 25(5): 571-89. Published at: http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn76/Peter (Rhetroic vs realism).doc
2008
Books/conference proceedings:
[co-editor with Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P.] Contemporary issues for heterodox economics, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 7th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 8-9 December 2008, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2718-3.
Journal articles:
‘The parlous investment environment for Australian electricity generation and transmission’, IAEE Energy Forum, Second quarter, pp. 29-35.
‘The contemporary growth regime has been ensured by the Australian state’s mutations (at least until now), The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 19 No. 1, November, pp. 3-24.
Refereed Conference Papers:
‘The public policy labyrinth impacting on the security of Australia’s energy supply: does it matter?, in Chester, L., Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P. (eds), Contemporary issues for heterodox economics, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 7th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 8-9 December 2008, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2718-3, pp. 31-53.
‘The (default) strategy determining the security of Australia’s energy supply’, in Cabalu, H. and Marinova, D. (eds) Second International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Asian Conference: Energy Security and Economic Development under Environmental Constraints in the Asia-Pacific Region, Refereed papers, November 2008, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, pp. 97-122.
Reviews:
Review of ‘Breaking the mould: An institutionalist political economy alternative to the neoliberal theory of the market and the state’, by Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2002, 26(5): 539-60. Published at: http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn74/Chang (Breaking the mould).doc
Review of ‘Principles of institutional-evolutionary political economy – converging themes from the school of heterodoxy,’ by Phillip Anthony O’Hara, Journal of Economic Issues, March 2007, 41(1): 1-42. Published at: http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn74/O'Hara (Principles of I-E PE).doc
2007
Books/conference proceedings:
[co-editor with Johnson, M. and Kriesler, P.] Heterodox economic perspectives on contemporary issues, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 6th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 10-11 December 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN: 978-0-7334-2582-0.
Journal articles:
‘Who benefits from the restructuring of the Australian electricity sector?’, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLI No.4, December, pp. 981-1002.
Refereed Conference Papers:
‘How the Australian state has mutated to support and sustain the contemporary growth regime’, in Chester, L. and Johnson, M. (eds), Heterodox economic perspectives on contemporary issues, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 6th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 10-11 December 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN: 978-0-7334-2582-0, pp. 56-71.
2006
Journal Articles:
‘The conundrums facing Australia’s national electricity market’, Economic Papers, Vol.25, No.4, December, pp. 362-77.
Refereed Conference Papers:
‘The impact of neoliberalism on the Australian electricity sector’, in Kriesler, P., Johnson, M., and Lodewijks, J., (eds), Essays in Heterodox Economics, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 5th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 11-12 December 2006, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2417-5, pp. 52-67.
[with Johnson, M.] ‘A new approach needed for Australia’s infrastructure’, in Kriesler, P., Johnson, M., and Lodewijks, J., (eds), Essays in Heterodox Economics, Refereed papers, Proceedings of the 5th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 11-12 December 2006, University of New South Wales, Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7334-2417-5, pp. 68-86.