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Professor Amos Witztum

post

Professor of Economics

responsibilities

PhD Applications

brief biography

Amos received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics where he taught before arriving at LMU. 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 e! ffects 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

My 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, I am trying to explore further the relationship between individuals, society and its institutions. I am hoping 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:

"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

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)