Christopher Lloyd
Professor, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
B.A. (Hons) University of New England
M.Phil Sussex University
M.Litt Oxford University
PhD University of New England
Contact
| Email: | chris.lloyd@une.edu.au |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3156 (or +61 2 6773 3156 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3596 |
Professor of Economic History in School of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of New England, Armidale.
Visiting Professor at Nordwel – Nordic Centre of Excellence on the History and Future of Welfare States – University of Helsinki, Finland
Affiliations
Previous Visiting Positions and Affiliations
- Economics Department, Duke University, 1993
- Center for Comparative Research, University of California at Davis, 1996-97
- Reshaping Australia's Institutions project, RSSS, Australian National University, 2000-2001
- International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 2002
- Department of Historical and Institutional Economics, Zaragoza University, 2002
- History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2003-2005
- Visiting Professor, Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2006
- Max Planck Institute for Economics (Evolutionary Economics Department), Jena, Germany, 2010.
Areas of Teaching
• Australian Historical Political Economy
• Global Trade and Business
Research interests
- History of Australia's political economy - regimes of capitalist regulation
- Philosophy and methodology of social science history
- Historical geopolitics and economic history – long-run interactions of geopolitics, economies, and environments
- History of Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism
- Socio-economic evolution theory
- Comparative histories of settler economies, including indigenous participation and hybridity
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Lloyd, C (ed) (1983) Social Theory and Political Practice; Wolfson College Lectures for 1981, (ed with Introduction), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Lloyd, C (1986) Explanation in Social History, Blackwell, Oxford and New York.
Lloyd, C (1993) The Structures of History, (a volume in the Studies in Social Discontinuity series edited by Charles Tilly) Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge MA, reprinted 1994. [Portuguese translation: As Estruturas de Historia, George Zahar, Rio de Janiero, 1995]
Lloyd, C Rugendyke B and Epps, R (1997) Global Interactions: A Senior Geography, Book 3, Heinemann, Melbourne.
Lloyd, C Metzer J, Sutch R (eds) (2011) Settler Economies in World History, Brill, Leiden.
Fijn, N Keen, I Lloyd, C (eds) (2011) Indigenous Participation in the Australian Economy: Historical Perspectives, forthcoming 2011.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
Lloyd, C (1987) 'Capitalist Beginnings in Australia', Arena, No. 81, pp. 35-55.
Lloyd, C (1989) 'Realism, Structurism, and History: Foundations for a Transformative Science of Society', Theory and Society, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 451-494.
Lloyd, C (1989) 'Realism and Structurism in Historical Theory: A Discussion of the Thought of Maurice Mandelbaum', History and Theory, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 296-325.
Lloyd, C (1989) 'People's History and Socialist Intellectuals', Arena, No. 88, pp. 173-180.
Lloyd, C (1990) 'Structural History and Action History: Separate Methodologies or Convergences?', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, No. 61, pp. 31-42.
Lloyd, C (1991) 'The Methodologies of Social History: A Critical Survey and Defense of Structurism', History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 180-219.
Lloyd, C (1994) 'The Fateful Experiment of the Anasazi People: Environmental Adaptation and Economic Collapse of the Pre-Historic Pueblo Indians', in University of New England, 1993 Research Report, pp 7-11, Armidale.
Lloyd, C (1995) 'Economic History and Policy: Historiography of Australian Traditions', in John Moses (ed), Historical Disciplines in Australasia: Themes, Problems and Debates, Special Issue of Australian Journal of Politics and History , Vol. 41, pp 61-79.
Lloyd, C (1996) 'For Realism and Against the Inadequacies of Common Sense: A Response to Arthur Marwick', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp 187-203.
Lloyd, C (1997) 'Can There be a Unified Theory of Cosmic-Ecological World History?' Focaal: Journal of Anthropology, No 29, pp. 171-180.
Lloyd, C (1997) 'Can Economic History be the Core of Social Science? Why the Discipline Must Open and Integrate to Ensure the Survival of Long-Run Economic Analysis', Australian Economic History Review, Vol 37, No 3, pp 256-266.
Lloyd, C (1998) 'Australian and American Settler Capitalism: The Importance of a Comparison and its Curious Neglect', Australian Economic History Review, Vol 38, No 3, pp 280-305.
Lloyd, C (2000) 'Political Geography', in Grant Kleeman (ed), A Geography of Global Interactions, Heinemann, Melbourne, 2000, pp 308-348
Lloyd, C (2000) 'Globalization: Beyond Ultra-Modernist Narrative to a Critical Realist Perspective on Geopolitics in the Cyber Age', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 24, No 2, pp. 257-272
Lloyd, C (2001) 'Economic History as the Integrating Core of Social Science', in Patricia Hudson (ed) Living Economic and Social History, pp. 219-223, Economic History Society, Glasgow.
Lloyd, C (2002) 'Introduction' to Special Issue on Australian Institutional Change, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 42, No 3, pp 235-237.
Lloyd, C (2002) 'Review Article of Davis and Gallman, Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows. Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914', Financial History Review, Vol 9, No 1, pp 99-102.
Lloyd, C (2003) ‘History and the Social Sciences’ in S, Berger, H. Feldner, and K. Passmore (eds) Writing History: Theory and Practice, Arnold, pp 83-103.
Lloyd, C (2004) ‘Latham, Intellectuals, and Social Capital’, Dissent Magazine, No 14, Autumn-Winter, pp 18-21
Lloyd, C (2004) ‘AUSFTA as Free Trade Imperialism: The Regionalisation of All Australia”, Dissent Magazine, No 15, Spring, pp 44-47.
Lloyd, C (2005) ‘Past, Present and Future in the Global Expansion of Capitalism: Learning From The Deep and Surface Times of Societal Evolution and the Conjunctures of History’, Österreichische Zeitschrift fûr Geschichtswissenschaft Vol 16, No 2, pp 79-103.
Lloyd, C (2005) ‘Beyond Sciences in Historical Theory? Critical Commentary on the History/Science Distinction’, Storia della Storiografia, No 46.
Lloyd, C (2005) 'The Methodologies of Social History: A Critical Survey and Defence of Structurism', in Robert Burns (ed) Historiography: (Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Series) Vol II, Ch 20, Routledge, London, pp 24-67.
Lloyd, C (2008) 'Australian Capitalism Since 1992: A New Regime of Accumulation?', Journal of Australian Political Economy, No 61, pp 31-56.
Lloyd, C (2008) 'Political Economy Today and Tomorrow; The Contribution of The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 43, No 2, pp 341-345.
Lloyd, C (2008) 'Historiographic Schools' in A. Tucker (ed) Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of History and Historiography, Ch 33, Blackwell-Wiley
Lloyd, C 2008. 'Towards Unification: Beyond the Antinomies of Knowledge in Historical Social Science', History and Theory Vol 47.
Lloyd, C and Metzer J (2011) 'Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts', in Lloyd, Metzer, Sutch (eds) Settler Economies in World History, Brill, Leiden.
Lloyd, C (2011) 'Institutional Patterns of the Settler Societies: Hybrid, Parallel, and Convergent', in Lloyd, Metzer, Sutch (eds) Settler Economies in World History, Brill, Leiden.
SOME UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
Lloyd, C (2000) 'From Universal History to Holocene History: From the Teleologies of Modernism to the Darwinism of Long-Run Societal Transformation', World Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, August 2000.
Lloyd, C (2005) 'The 1840s Depression and the Origins of Australian Capitalism' Australian Studies Conference New Delhi, revised 2005
Lloyd, C (2009a) 'Beyond the Spectres of Globalisation and Ultramodernity: Towards a Future Global Commonwealth?' Nordwel Centre, Helsinki.
Lloyd, C (2009c) 'Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism Since 1970: Crises, Responses, Divergences', World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, Presidential Session
Lloyd, C and Ramsay, T (2009) 'The Transformations of Australia’s Labor Market Since 1983: From Social Democracy to Regulatory Capitalism?', Nordwel Conference Stockholm
Current Projects
- Snakes in Eden: The Institutional Evolution of Australian Capitalism.
- Settler Economies in World History (with Jacob Metzer and Richard Sutch)
- Indigenous Participation in the Australian Colonial Economy: An Anthropological and Historical Investigation [ARC funded project in collaboration with Ian Ken (ANU) and National Museum of Australia]
- Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism: An Evolving, Hegemonic, Tendency? [Nordwel Centre project, Helsinki]
- Global Wars of Capitalism, 1450-2050: Western Domination and the Final Ecological Crisis
- Social Science History: Methodological and Theoretical Foundations [ASSA-ISL supported project in collaboration with Organizational Evolution and Dynamics Group, Jyvaskyla University]