Dr Tony Ramsay

Lecturer - UNE Business School

Tony Ramsay

Phone: +61 2 6773 3521

Email: aramsay5@une.edu.au

Biography

Tony is a lecturer in the UNE Business School at UNE and has eight years experience teaching international political economy (IPE), economic history, and Australian public policy. Tony's research interests include political economy and employment output; socialised investment and its relationship to sovereign wealth and pension funds; history of international economic policy change; and, business, labour and governmental relations.

Qualifications

BA(Hons), PhD (NE)

Research Interests

International political economy; labour market economics and employment output; socialised investment and infrastructure renewal; history of international economic policy change; and, business, labour and governmental relations.

Publications

Journal Publications

Lloyd, C., and Ramsay, T. (2017). ‘Resisting neo-liberalism, reclaiming democracy? 21st-century organised labour beyond Polanyi and Streeck’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 28(1), pp.129-145.

Lloyd, C., and Ramsay, T. (2014). 'Macroeconomic Prosperity and Social Inclusion: From long-run history to the shock of May 2014', Journal of Australian Political Economy, number 74, Summer.

Ramsay, T., and Lloyd, C. (2010). 'Infrastructure Investment for Full Employment:  A Social Democratic Program of Funds Regulation', Journal of Australian Political Economy, number 65, Winter.

Battin, T., and Ramsay, T. (2006). 'Australian Affluence and the Left', Journal of Australian Political Economy, number 58, December.

Ramsay, T., and Battin, T. (2005). 'Labor Party Ideology in the Early 1990s: Working Nation and Paths not Taken, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, volume 9, Winter, 2005, number 2.

Ramsay, T. (2004). 'The Socialisation of Investment in a Contemporary Setting', Journal of Australian Political Economy, number 53, June.

Ramsay, T. (2002-3). 'The Jobs Guarantee: A Post-Keynesian analysis', Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, volume 25, number 2, Winter, 273-291.

Refereed Conference Publications

Lloyd, C., and Ramsay T. (2015). 'The Transformation of Australia's Labor Market Since 1988: A Case of Regulatory Capitalism rather than Neo-Liberalism?' Conference Paper presented to NordWel in cooperation with the Department of History, Stockholm University, 13-15 May, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ramsay, T., and Lloyd, C. (2013). 'Applying neo-liberal instruments in the attempt to resolve neo-liberal deficiencies: The contradictory character of the JG economy', presented at the 1st World Keynes Conference 'Attacking the Citadel: Making Economics Fit for Purpose', Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey, 26-29. June.

Morales L. E., Hoang, N., and Ramsay, T. (2013). 'Modelling Volatility of Australian Beef Export Prices', presented at the 57th Australian Agricultural Resources Economics Society Annual Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, 5th-8th February.

Smith, G., and Ramsay, T. (2011). 'Public Investment for a Balanced Economy: A Thermodynamic Perspective, 18th National Conference on Unemployment, University of Newcastle, December 7-8.

Work in Progress/Forthcoming

Ramsay, T., Lloyd, C., and Battin, T. (2018). 'Structural Problems of the Employer of Last Resort (ELR) Model: Using Neo-liberal policies to solve Neo-liberal-induced Unemployment will not work'.

Ramsay, T., and Battin, T. (2018). A critical analysis of the Carr-Egan regime: Neo-liberalism and the NSW parliamentary ALP.

External Profiles