Christopher Lloyd
Prof, 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 |
Research interests
- History of Australia's political economy - regimes of capitalist regulation
- Philosophy and methodology of explanation in the social and historical sciences
- Historical Geopolitics and Economic History – long-run interactions of geopolitics, economies, and environments
- Socio-economic evolution theory
- Comparative Histories of Settler Economies and Welfare States
Professional Roles
- Editorial Board member of Australian Economic History Review
- Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of International Economic History Association
- Executive Committee member and Past President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
Present Positions
- Professor of Economic History in School of Business, Economics, and Public Policy, University of New England, Armidale.
- Visiting Professor, Nordic Centre of Excellence on the History of Welfare States, University of Helsinki, Finland
Previous Positions
- Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, Duke University, 1993
- Visiting Professor, Center for Comparative Research, University of California at Davis, 1996-97
- Visiting Research Fellow in Reshaping Australia's Institutions, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2000-2001
- Visiting Scholar, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 2002
- Visiting Professor, Department of Historical and Institutional Economics, Zaragoza University, Spain, 2002
- Research Affiliate, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2003-2005
- Visiting Professor, Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2006
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Social Theory and Political Practice; Wolfson College Lectures for 1981, (ed with Introduction), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.
Explanation in Social History, Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1986, reprinted 1988.
The Structures of History, (a volume in the Studies in Social Discontinuity series edited by Charles Tilly) Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge MA, 1993, reprinted 1994. [Portuguese translation: As Estruturas de Historia, George Zahar, Rio de Janiero, 1995]
Global Interactions: A Senior Geography, Book 3 [with B. Rugendyke and R. Epps] Heinemann, Melbourne, 1997.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
'Capitalist Beginnings in Australia', Arena, No. 81, 1987, pp. 35-55.
'Realism, Structurism, and History: Foundations for a Transformative Science of Society', Theory and Society, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1989, pp. 451-494.
'Realism and Structurism in Historical Theory: A Discussion of the Thought of Maurice Mandelbaum', History and Theory, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1989, pp. 296-325.
'People's History and Socialist Intellectuals', Arena, No. 88, 1989, pp. 173-180.
'Structural History and Action History: Separate Methodologies or Convergences?', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, No. 61, 1990, pp. 31-42.
'The Methodologies of Social History: A Critical Survey and Defense of Structurism', History and Theory, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1991, pp. 180-219.
'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, 1994
'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, 1995, pp 61-79.
'For Realism and Against the Inadequacies of Common Sense: A Response to Arthur Marwick', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1996 pp 187-203.
'Can There be a Unified Theory of Cosmic-Ecological World History?' Focaal: Journal of Anthropology, No 29, 1997, pp. 171-180.
'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, 1997, pp 256-266.
'Australian and American Settler Capitalism: The Importance of a Comparison and its Curious Neglect', Australian Economic History Review, Vol 38, No 3, 1998, pp 280-305.
'Political Geography', in Grant Kleeman (ed), A Geography of Global Interactions, Heinemann, Melbourne, 2000, pp 308-348
'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, 2000, pp. 257-272
'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, 2001
'Introduction' to Special Issue on Australian Institutional Change, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 42, N0 3, 2002, pp 235-237.
`Regime Change in Australian Capitalism: Towards a Historical Political Economy of Regulation´, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 42, No 3, 2002, pp 238-266.
'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, 2002, pp 99-102.
'Economic Policy and Australian State Building: From Labourist-Protectionism to Globalisation', in A. Teichova and H. Matis (eds), Nation State and the Economy in History, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
‘History and the Social Sciences’ in S, Berger, H. Feldner, and K. Passmore (eds) Writing History: Theory and Practice, Arnold, 2003, pp 83-103.
‘Latham, Intellectuals, and Social Capital’, Dissent Magazine, No 14, Autumn-Winter 2004, pp 18-21
‘AUSFTA as Free Trade Imperialism: The Regionalisation of All Australia”, Dissent Magazine, No 15, Spring 2004, pp 44-47.
‘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, 2005, pp 79-103.
‘Beyond Sciences in Historical Theory? Critical Commentary on the History/Science Distinction’, Storia della Storiografia, No 46, 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, 2005, pp 24-67.
'Australian Capitalism Since 1992: A New Regime of Accumulation? ' , Journal of Australian Political Economy, No 61, 2008, pp 31-56.
'Political Economy Today and Tomorrow; The Contribution of The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 43, No 2, 2008, pp 341-345.
'Historiographic Schools' in A. Tucker (ed) Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of History and Historiography, Ch 33, Blackwell-Wiley, 2008.
'Towards Unification: Beyond the Antinomies of Knowledge in Historical Social Science', History and Theory Vol 47, 2008.
'The History and Future of Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism: From Modernisation to the Spectres of Ultramodernity', in Pauli Kettunen (ed) Nordic Welfare States: History and Future Challenges, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008.
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]
- Solidaristic Social Democracies Under Globalisation Since the 1970s: Alternative Paths into the 21st Century [Nordwel Centre project, Helsinki]
- Global Wars of Capitalism, 1450-2050: Western Domination and the Final Ecological Crisis