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CURRICULUM VITAE MALCOLM RUTHERFORD Department Of CURRICULUM VITAE MALCOLM RUTHERFORD Department of Economics Phone: (250) 721-6481 University of Victoria Fax: (250) 721-6214 P.O. Box 1700 E-mail: [email protected] Victoria, B.C. Canada, V8W 2Y2 FIELDS OF INTEREST: History of Economics; Institutional Economics; History of American Economics; Methodology of Economics. QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. (Hons.) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland (1971) M.A. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1973) Ph.D. University of Durham, Durham, England (1979) THESIS: "The Development of American Institutional Economics." Supervisor: Prof. D.P. O'Brien External Examiners: Prof. T.W. Hutchison (Birmingham), and Prof. E. Allen (Durham) APPOINTMENTS: 1975 : Temporary Lecturer, University of Newcastle 1976-1977: Instructor, University of Maryland 1977-1979: Sessional Lecturer, University of Victoria 1979-1984: Assistant Professor, University of Victoria 1984-1985: Assistant Professor with tenure, University of Victoria 1985-1994: Associate Professor, University of Victoria 1994-2015: Professor, University of Victoria 2015- : Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria Visiting Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, January-July 1986 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, February-April 2000 Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, London, February-April 2003 Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2011 2 EXTERNAL GRANTS: 1999-2002, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $46,540 2002-2005, SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $72,020 HONOURS AND AWARDS: 1996 President, History of Economics Society 2008 President, Association for Evolutionary Economics 2009 University of Victoria, Faculty of Social Sciences, Research Excellence Award 2013 Veblen-Commons Award, Association for Evolutionary Economics 2013 European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Best Book Award for The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control 2013 Honorary President, World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research 2014 Distinguished Fellow, History of Economics Society PUBLICATIONS: Books 1994 Institutions in Economics: the Old and the New Institutionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xi, 225. Reprinted 1995 and 1999; Paperback edition 1996; Arabic language edition 1998; Chinese language edition 1999. 2011 The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii, 410. Paperback edition 2013. Edited Books 1996 John R. Commons: Selected Essays, 2 vols. Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels). London: Routledge, pp. viii, 557. Paperback edition, 2017. 1997 Classics in Institutional Economics: The Founders, 5 vols. Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels). London: Pickering and Chatto. 1998 The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics. Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Edited and with an Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. xi, 333. Paperback edition 2014. 3 1998 From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism. Annual Supplement to Volume 30 of History of Political Economy. Edited (with Mary Morgan). Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp. vi, 325. 1998 Classics in Institutional Economics II, 5 vols. Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels). London: Pickering and Chatto. 2003 Early American Economic Thought Series. Series Editor (with William J. Barber, Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, and Warren J. Samuels). Three parts and 15 volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto. 2004 The Emergence of a National Economy: The United States from Independence to the Civil War. Part II in the Early American Economic Thought Series, 6 vols. Edited and with an Introduction (with Marianne Johnson and William J. Barber). London: Pickering and Chatto. Chapters 1988 Learning and Decision Making in Economics and Psychology: A Methodological Perspective. In Peter Earl (ed.), Psychological Economics. Boston: Kluwer Academic, pp. 35-54. 1990 Introduction to the Transaction Edition. J. R. Commons, Institutional Economics: Its Place in Political Economy (1934). New Brunswick: Transaction, pp. xiii-xxxvii. 1990 Science, Self-Correction and Values: From Peirce to Institutionalism. In John Lutz (ed.), Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect, Boston: Kluwer Academic, pp. 391-406. 1994 J.A. Hobson and American Institutionalism: Underconsumption and Technological Change. In John Pheby (ed.), J. A. Hobson After Fifty Years. London: Macmillan, pp. 188-210. 1999 Institutionalism as "Scientific" Economics. In Roger Backhouse and John Creedy (eds.), From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D. P. O'Brien. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 223-242. 2003 American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period. In Warren Samuels, John Davis, and Jeff Biddle, eds., A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 360-376. 2005 The Firm in American Institutional Economics. In Marco Guidi and Daniela Parisi, eds., The Changing Firm. Contributions from the History of Economic Thought. Milan: Franco Angeli, pp. 38-51. 4 2010 Chicago Economics and Institutionalism. In Ross Emmett, ed., Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 25-39. Journal Articles 1980 Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry. History of Political Economy 12 (3): 434-440. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assesments, Routledge: London, 1993]. 1981 Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry: A Rejoinder. History of Political Economy 13 (1): 156-158. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assesments, Routledge: London, 1993]. 1981 Clarence Ayres and the Instrumental Theory of Value. Journal of Economic Issues. 15 (3): 657-673. [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought in Economics 5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948, John Commons 1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992]. 1983 Ayres's Instrumentalism: A Reply to Weinel. Journal of Economic Issues 17 (3): 750-753. 1983 J.R. Commons's Institutional Economics. Journal of Economic Issues 17 (3): 721-744. [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought in Economics 5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948, John Commons 1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992]. 1984 Rational Expectations and Keynesian Uncertainty: A Critique. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 6 (3): 377-387. 1984 Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change. History of Political Economy 16 (3): 331-348. [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Routledge, London, 1993; in G. Hodgson (ed.) The Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: 1890-1973, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 1998, and in Rick Tilman (ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003]. 5 1987 Wesley Mitchell: Institutions and Quantitative Methods. Eastern Economic Journal 13 (1): 63-73. 1987 Veblen, Leibenstein and McCormick. History of Economics Society Bulletin 8 (2): 57-59. 1989 Some Issues in the Comparison of Austrian and Institutional Economics. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 6: 159-172. 1989 What is Wrong with the New Institutional Economics (And What is Still Wrong with the Old)? Review of Political Economy 1 (3): 299-318. 1990 Rational Expectations in the Light of Modern Psychology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 7: 127-140. 1990 Allan Gruchy: 1906-1990. Review of Political Economy 2 (3): 371-374. 1992 On Trusts and Technostructures: Veblen, Berle and Means, and Galbraith. International Journal of Social Economics 19 (10/11/12): 268-278. 1992 Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers. International Review of Sociology, new series, 1992 (3): 125-150. [Reprinted in Rick Tilman (ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003]. 1994 Predatory Practices or Reasonable Values? American Institutionalists on the Nature of Market Transactions. In Higgling: Transactors and Their Markets in the History of Economics, edited by Neil De Marchi and Mary Morgan. History of Political Economy 26 (supplement): 253-275. 1995 The Old and the New Institutionalism: Can Bridges be Built? Journal of Economic Issues 29 (2): 443-451. 1995 “The Criticism of Modern Civilization” by Wesley Mitchell. Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford. Journal of Economic Issues 29 (3): 663-682. 1996 “Money Economy and Modern Civilization” by Wesley Mitchell. Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford. History of Political Economy 28 (3): 317-357. 1997 American Institutionalism and the History of Economic Thought (Presidential Address to the History of Economics Society). Journal of the History of Economic Thought 19 (Fall): 178-195. 6 1998 Thorstein Veblen's Evolutionary Programme: A Promise Unfulfilled. Cambridge Journal of Economics 22 (July): 463-477. 1998 American Economics:
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