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Professor of Economics

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brief biography

Amos received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics where he taught before arriving at London Metropolitan University. He was a founding member of, and a visiting professor at, the New Economic School in Moscow (at the time, the only Western-based Graduate School in economics in Russia). He has also been part of the team which created the International College of Economics and Finance in Moscow. He was a visiting professor in Public Finance at the St Petersburg School of Economics as well as a consultant to the World Bank.

He is a Chief Examiner at the University of London, a regular visiting professor at Solvay’s Business School (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) and Singapore Institute of Management.

Professor Witztum is the book review editor of Economica, on the board of editors of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought and an associate editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He has published in journals and books on economic methodology, on the effects of ethics on economic analysis and on the history of economic thought.

key teaching areas

Undergraduate courses:

• Critical Economy (A course in Philosophy and Economics)
• Introductory Economics (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics),
• Mathematics for Economists
• Intermediate Microeconomic
• Public Finance
• Industrial Organisation
• Applied Economics
• Welfare Economics
• Government and Industry

Graduate Courses:

• Advanced Microeconomics
• Public Finance
• The Economics of Income Distribution
• Economics for Banking and Finance

research interests

Amos research interests rest in the interface between economics and other social disciplines. They are centred on the influence which a broader scope of social and ethical considerations may have on economic analysis and on policy recommendations. Through the study of both current issues and the history of economic analysis, he is trying to explore further the relationship between individuals, society and its institutions, with the hope that a better understanding of these relationship would affect both the conception of the economic problem and the means by which we measure economic performance.

Specific Areas: Agency problems, Economics Methodology, Ethics-Economics relationship, History of Economic Thought.

publications

Selected List of Publications:

• “Social Dimensions of Individualistic Rationality” American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Forthcoming (2011).
• “Positive Ethics and the Science of Economics: Robbins’s Enduring Fallacies” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Forthcoming. (2011)
• “Keynes, Robbins and the Nature of Economics”, in Perspectives on Keynes, A. Arnon and W. Young (eds), Springer. 2011.
• “Comments on Colander's ‘The Keynesian Method, Complexity, and the Training of Economists”, in Perspectives on Keynes, A. Arnon and W. Young (eds), Springer. 2011.
• "A Smithian Notion of General Equilibrium" in Elgar’s Companion to Adam Smith, J Young (editor), forthcoming 2008.
• "Unintended Consequences and the Ethics of Competition" European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, September 2008.
• "Social Attitudes and Re-Distributive Policies". Journal of Socio-Economics August 2008.
• "Corporate Rules, Distribution and Efficiency", Business Ethics Quarterly, January 2008.

See full bibliography


Discussion papers can be found on the Centre for Socio-Economic Research (CSER) website

memberships

• Book Review Editor, Economica
• Member of Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Economic Thoguth
• Member of the International Advisory board, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
• Member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
• Member of the Executive Committee of ESHET
• Secretary of ESHET
• Member of the American Social for the History of Economic (HES)