John Pullen
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
BEc(Syd), DipEd(Syd), MA(Liv), PhD(Newcastle(NSW)), Lic en PhilScol(Paris)
Contact
| Email: | jpullen@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W039 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2471 (or +61 2 6773 2471 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3280 |
Research interests
History of economics; urban economics.
Publications
1. “The Betterment Levy”, Australian Planning Institute Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1968, pp.43-51.
2. “Legislative Alternatives in the Protection of Green Wedges”, in Conservation and Development, Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria, 1970.
3. “The N.S.W. Land Development Contribution Act 1970”, Royal Australian Planning Institute Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1971, pp.5-11.
4. “Betterment Levies as a Source of Local Government Finance”, 1970 Year Book of the Association of Local Government Clerks in N.S.W., 1971, pp.43-50.
5. “The Incidence of the Land Development Contribution”, The Developer: Bulletin of the Institute of Real Estate Development, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, November 1971, pp.49-54.
6. Co-author, First Report of the Task Force on the Price of Land, Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Canberra, 1971, 56pp.
7. Co-author, Second Report of the Task Force on the Price of Land, Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Canberra, 1972, 64pp.
8. Co-author, Land for the Cities, Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Canberra, 1973, 32 pages.
9. Greenspace and the Cities, Australian Institute or Urban Studies, Canberra, 1977, 87pp.
10. “The Editor of the Second Edition of T.R. Malthus, Principles of Political Economy”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1978, pp.286-297. Reprinted in Critical Assessments of T.R. Malthus, ed. J.C. Wood, Croom Helm, 1988.
11. Co-author, Urban Strategies for Australia, Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Canberra, 1979, pp.48.
12. “Malthus’ Theological Ideas and Their Influence on His Principle of Population”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 1981, pp.39-54. Reprinted in Critical Assessments of T.R. Malthus, ed. J.C. Wood, Croom Helm, 1988.
13. “Notes from Malthus: the Inverarity Manuscript”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter 1981, pp.794-811. Reprinted in Critical Assessments of T.R. Malthus, ed. J.C. Wood, Croom Helm, 1988.
14. “An Introduction to the Malthus Library”, in Malthus’s Library Catalogue, Pergamon Press, Elmsford, 1982, pp.liv-lxii.
15. “Malthus on the Doctrine of Proportions and the Concept of the Optimum”, Australian Economic Papers, December 1982, pp.270-285.
16. “Correspondence between Malthus and His Parents”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp.133-154. Reprinted in Pioneers in Economics: Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill, ed. Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991.
17. “Malthus, Jesus and Darwin”, Religious Studies, Vol. 23, June 1987, pp.233-246.
18. “Some New Information on the Rev. T.R. Malthus”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1987, pp.127-140. Reprinted in Pioneers in Economics: Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill, ed. Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991.
19. “Recent Literature on Malthus: Commentary”, in W.O. Thweatt (ed), Classical Political Economy, Kluwer, 1987, pp.85-101.
20. “T.R. Malthus 1766-1834”, in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds), The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Macmillan, 1987, pp.280-285.
21. “J. Cazenove” in The New Palgrave, op.cit, pp.383-384.
22. “Lord Grenville’s Manuscript Notes on Malthus”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1987, pp.217-237. Reprinted in Pioneers in Economics: Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill, ed. Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991.
23. “William Anderson (fl. 1797-1832) on Banking, the Money Supply and Public Expenditure: A Forgotten Interventionist”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1987, pp.359-385.
24. (With J.C. Baldry), “Malthus’ Production Function”, Bulletin of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, No. 10, 1988, pp.10-23.
25. T.R. Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, Variorum Edition, 1989, edited in two volumes by J.M. Pullen with Introduction (Vol. I, pp.11-69), List of Alterations (Vol. II, pp.3-286), Commentary (Vol. II, pp.289-468) and New Index. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society.
26. “In Defence of Senior’s Last Hour-and-Twenty-Five Minutes”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1989, pp.299-309; and “Senior’s Last Hour: A Rejoinder”, ibid., pp.311-12. Reprinted in Pioneers in Economics: Ramsay McCulloch Nassau Senior and Robert Torrens, ed. Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991.
27. “Traditional and Untraditional Liberalism”, Bulletin of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, No. 12, 1989, pp.53-61.
28. “Metaphorical Economics: or, the Metaphor is the Message”, Bulletin of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, No. 14, 1990, pp.29-51.
29. “The Investment Function and the Balanced Budget Multiplier Theorem: A Story of Selective Specification”, Public Finance/Finances Publiques, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1991, pp.476-489.
30. “Malthus on Sustainable Population Growth”, The Annual Bulletin of the Malthus Society, No. 2, Dec. 1992, pp.38-61.
31. (With R. Pitcher) “Malthus on Classical Languages and Corporal Punishment”, History of Economics Review , No. 18, Summer 1992, pp.34-45.
32. “Malthus and Adam Smith”, The Bulletin of the Matsudaira Memorial Institute, Kanto Gakuen University, No. 10, Feb. 1993, pp.1-28.
33. “The Variorum Edition of T.R. Malthus Principles of Political Economy”, Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales, Tome XXXI, No. 95, 1993, pp.125-137.
34. “The Investment Function and the Balanced Budget Multiplier: A Reply”, Public Finance/Finances Publiques, Vol. 49(2), 1994, pp.308-11.
35. Pullen Malthus wo kataru (Lectures on Malthus by J.M. Pullen), translated and edited by Professors Mizokawa and Hashimoto, Minerva Shobo, Kyoto, 1994, 174 pages.
36. “Malthus and Adam Smith on Colonization and Economic Development”, Utilitas, Vol. 6, No. 2, Nov. 1994, pp.243-66.
37. “Toward a Mathematical Model of Malthus”, UNE Working Papers in Economics, No. 7, 1994, pp.1-24.
38. “Malthus on Agricultural Protection: An Alternative View”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1995, pp.517-29.
39. (with M.L. Treadgold) “Henry George in Northern New South Wales: Newspaper Accounts of Two Lectures”, History of Economics Review, No. 23, 1995, pp.83-94.
40. (with H. Hashimoto), “Two More Unpublished Malthus Letters in Japan”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1996, pp.295-305.
41. (with G.O. Smith) “Major Douglas and Social Credit: A Re-Appraisal”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1997, pp.219-273.
42. “The Teaching of Economics: the Art of Paradigm Protection and Suppression”, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1997, pp.28-40.
43. “Anonymous Pamphlets by John Cazenove”, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997, pp.301-310.
44. T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, Vol. I, 1997, pp.xxiv, 140.
45. (with Alan Treloar), “Hearn’s ‘Plutology’ or Hearn’s ‘Olbology’?”, History of Economics Review, No. 27, 1998, pp.16-20.
46. “The Last Sixty-Five Years of Malthus Scholarship”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1998, pp.343-52.
47. “Malthus on this World and the Next”, Bulletin of the Matsudaira Memorial Institute for Economics and Culture, Kanto Gakuen University, No. 16, Dec. 1998, pp.177-200.
48. “The Quest for the Canon: Holy Grail or Empty Economic Box”, History of Economics Review, No. 32, Summer 2000, pp.96-105.
49. “Keynes’s Criticisms of Malthus and Malthus’s ‘Reply’”, History of Economics Review, No. 34, Summer 2001, pp.168-181.
50. “Henry George’s Land Reform: The Distinction between Private Ownership and Private Possession”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 60, No. 2, April 2001, pp.547-556. Republished in Laurent, J. ed. Henry George’s Legacy in Economic Thought, 2005, 166-73, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
51. “Thomas Robert Malthus”, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, Vol. 3, 14-16.
52. “Malthus on Indolence”, in Laurent, J., ed., Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp.74-95.
53. “Thomas Robert Malthus”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, Vol. 36, 365-70.
54. “Richard Jones”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, Vol. 30, 619-20.
55. “John Cazenove”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, Vol. 10, 711-712.
56. “Henry George on property rights in land and land value: equal and private, or common and public”, in Aspromourgos, T. and Lodewijks, J. eds, History and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegen, London: Routledge, 2004, 118-138.
57. T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, Vol. II, 2004, xviii, 341.
58. “Cazenove, John (1788-1879)”, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, Vol. I, 197-8.
59. “The philosophy and feasibility of Henry George’s land-value tax: criticisms and defences, with particular reference to the problem of the land-rich-and-income-poor”, in Laurent, J. ed., Henry George’s Legacy in Economic Thought, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005, 177-195.
60. “Henry George in Australia: where the landowners are ‘more destructive than the rabbit or the kangaroo’”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2005, 683-713.
61. (with H. Hashimoto), “Two unpublished letters of Malthus, with notes on the connections between Malthus and William Smith, MP”, History of Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 2, summer 2005, 371-379.
62. “Did Ricardo really have a Law of Comparative Advantage? A comparison of Ricardo’s version and the modern version”, History of Economics Review, No. 44, 2006, 59-75.
63. “Jones, Richard”, in Herz, D. and Weinberger, V., eds, Lexikon ökonomischer Werke, Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen: Düsseldorf, 2006, 223-4.
64. “Malthus, Thomas Robert: Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws” in Herz and Weinberger, 2006, 300-301.
65. “Malthus, Thomas Robert, Principles of Political Economy” in Herz and Weinberger, 2006, 301-302.
In press
“Malthus, Thomas Robert”, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edn. Expected date of publication, 2008.
The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution: A Critical History, typescript, 311 pages, University of Michigan Press. Expected date of publication, end 2007.
Current conference paper
“Henry George in Queensland; and some lessons for today”, typescript, 22 pages. To be presented at the conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Queensland, 11-13 July, 2007.
In preparation
Henry George in Australia: An account of Henry George’s lecture tour of Australia in 1890, based on contemporary published reports. Typescript, 300+ pages.