Professor John E. King teaches industrial relations, labour economics and macroeconomics. His principal research interests are in the history of economic thought, with special reference to Marxian political economy, socialism and post-Keynesian theory. He is the author of several books, most recently: A History of Marxian Economics (two volumes, 1989, 1992; with M.C.Howard), Conversations with Post Keynesians, London: Macmillan (1995), Post-Keynesian Economics: an Annotated Bibliography, Aldershot: Elgar (1996) and An Alternative Macroeconomic Theory: the Kaleckian Model and Post Keynesian Economics , Boston: Kluwer (1996).

John is currently working on the history of Post Keynesian economics and on the history of socialist economics.  He is also working on (with M.C. Howard) a critical comparison of neoclassical and Marxian economics and on a materialist explanation of the rise of neoliberalism. He is a member of the editorial boards of  Australian Journal of Labour Economics, History of Economic Ideas   and Review of Political Economy , and is editor of History of Economics Review. .

Respondent

Grant Belchamber, Senior Research Officer with the Australian Council of Trade Unions