Dr Andy Denis, PhD,
FRSA
Fellow Emeritus
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.
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
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
FRSA (FRSA), Royal Society of Arts, Jan 2017 – present
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