City, University of London

 

 

Dr Andy Denis, PhD, FRSA

Fellow Emeritus

School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Economics

Email: a.m.p.denis@city.ac.uk     URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andy_Denis  

 

 

I worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit in the 1980s and joined City University Business School in 1990 as a researcher in financial development, moving to the Economics Department in 1991.

I gained my PhD in 2002 with a thesis on “Collective and Individual Rationality: Episodes in the History of Economic Thought”.  My research interests are in the history and philosophy of economics, in particular, collective and individual rationality, that is, the mode of articulation between micro and macro levels, in the history of economic thought.  I have published on Adam Smith, Keynes, Hayek, Malthus, Marx, the methodology of the Austrian and Neoclassical Schools of Thought in Economics, the concept of equilibrium and the appeal to microfoundations in modern macroeconomics, and the economic calculation debate between Austrian and Neoclassical socialist writers.  I am currently working on Austrian views of the Arrow Impossibility Theorem, monetary debates around the Bank of England’s suspension of the gold standard in the early 19th century, and the characterisation of the economic writings of the School of Salamanca in 16th century Spain.

In 2009 I guest-edited a special issue of the International Review of Economics Education on pluralism in the teaching of economics. In 2016 I edited a symposium on “Microfoundations in modern macroeconomics”, published in the Review of Political Economy.  In 2017 I organised a history of economic thought session, on “Two Centuries of Ricardo’s Principles”, at the Royal Economic Society annual conference.  Also in 2017, together with Dr Claudia Jefferies, I organised the 49th annual conference of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) at City, University of London. In January 2017 I was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.

 

I retired in July 2018, and was made Fellow Emeritus in November 2018. 


Everything here should be easily downloadable, but for copyright reasons versions linked to here may not be the version finally published.  In the event of any problem downloading a paper, or send me a comment, email me at a.m.p.denis@city.ac.uk.

 

Qualifications

 

PhD in Economics, City University London, United Kingdom, 2002

MSc in Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom, 1988 – 1990

MA in Political economy, Middlesex Polytechnic, United Kingdom, 1985 – 1988

BA (Hons) in Modern languages with political studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic, England, 1975 – 1979

 

Employment

 

Senior lecturer in political economy, City, University of London, Aug 2003 – present

Lecturer in economics, City, University of London, Oct 1991 – Jul 2003

Research fellow in financial development, City University Business School, City, University of London, Jul 1990 – Sep 1991

 

Fellowship

 

FRSA (FRSA), Royal Society of Arts, Jan 2017 – present

Publications

 

 

Journal articles

Andy Denis (2017). Private Property or Several Control: A Rejoinder. Review of Political Economy, 29(3): 432-439.

Jan Toporowski & Andy Denis (2016) Microfoundations: Introduction Review of Political Economy 28 (1): 90-91.

Andy Denis (2016) Microfoundations Review of Political Economy 28 (1): 134-52. 

Andy Denis (2015) Economic calculation: private property or several control?  Review of Political Economy 27 (4): 600-623. 

Andy Denis (2009) Editorial: Pluralism in Economics Education, International Review of Economics Education 8 (2): 6-22.  A version of this has since been republished as Chapter 5 of Jesper Jespersen and Mogens Ove Madsen (2013) Teaching Post Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 88-105. 

Andy Denis (2008) Dialectics and the Austrian School: A Surprising Commonality in the Methodology of Heterodox Economics? The Journal of Philosophical Economics 1 (2): 151-173.

Andy Denis (2006) Collective and individual rationality: Robert Malthus's heterodox theodicy History of Economic Ideas 14 (2): 9-31.

Andy Denis (2005) The Invisible Hand of God in Adam Smith Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 23-A: 1-32.

Andy Denis (2004) Two rhetorical strategies of laissez-faire Journal of Economic Methodology 11(3): 341-353.

Andy Denis (2003) Methodology and policy prescription in economic thought: a response to Mario Bunge The Journal of Socio-Economics 32 (2), 219-226.

Andy Denis (2002) Collective and individual rationality: Maynard Keynes's methodological standpoint and policy prescription, Research in Political Economy 20, December, 187-215.

Andy Denis (2002) Was Hayek a Panglossian evolutionary theorist? A reply to Whitman Constitutional Political Economy 13 (3), September, 275-285. A rejoinder by Glen Whitman appeared in CPE in December 2003 (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:COPE.0000003862.17944.d0#page-1). Click here to see my response (2005) to Whitman's rejoinder to my reply to his original article.

Andy Denis (2000) Epistemology, observed particulars and providentialist assumptions: the fact in the history of political economy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31 (2) 353-361. An essay-review of Mary Poovey (1998) A History of the Modern Fact. Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Andy Denis (1999) Was Adam Smith an Individualist? History of the Human Sciences 12 (3), August, 71-86.

 

Book chapters

Andy Denis (2018) Keynes and Marx: some points of contact Chapter 12 in Sheila Dow, Jesper Jespersen, and Geoffrey Tily (eds) The General Theory and Keynes for the 21st century Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Andy Denis (2014) Methodological individualism and society: Hayek’s evolving view.  Chapter 1 in Guinevere Liberty Nell (ed) Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society. Moving Beyond Methodological Individualism, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 7-20. 

Andy Denis (2013) Pluralism in Economics Education.  Chapter 5 in Jesper Jespersen and Mogens Ove Madsen (eds) Teaching Post Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 88-105.  See above. 

Andy Denis (2007) The hypostatisation of the concept of equilibrium in neoclassical economics. Chapter 13 in Valeria Mosini (ed) Equilibrium in Economics: Scope and Limits London: Routledge (paperback edition 2009), 261-279.

 

PhD thesis

A.M.P. Denis (2001) Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought PhD Thesis, City University London.

 

Discussion papers

Andy Denis (2015) Was the School of Salamanca proto-Austrian?

Andy Denis (2012) Entry on rationality accepted for the second edition of the Elgar Companion on Radical Political Economy.  It is unclear to me whether or when this Companion will be published. 

Andy Denis (2011) Organicism in the early Marx: Marx and Hegel on the state as an organism.

Andy Denis (2003) A note on Richard Dawkins on the nature of the gene.

 

Book Reviews

Andy Denis (2017) Book review: Contending Perspectives in Economics. A Guide to Contemporary Schools of Thought by: John T. Harvey. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 8(1): 105–108.

Andy Denis (2009) Review of Erik Angner (2007) Hayek and Natural Law Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge (in History of Economic Ideas)

Andy Denis (2006) Review of Bruce Caldwell (2004) Hayek's Challenge: an Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press (in Review of Political Economy).

Andy Denis (2006) Review of Nicola Giocoli (2003) Modelling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics To Early Modern Game Theory Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in Economics and Philosophy).

Andy Denis (2001) Hayek and the emergence of spontaneous order, ESHET Newsletter, Issue 6. A review of Boudewijn Bouckaert and Annette Godart-van der Kroon (eds) (2000) Hayek Revisited Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar/The Locke Institute (for the Ludwig von Mises Institute). Click here for another (shorter) review of the same book for Amazon.

 

 

 

Revised: Saturday, 24 November 2018