Professor Peter Burley

CURRICULUM VITAE

Simon Peter BURLEY

EDUCATION

BSc (Physics), Adelaide, 1960
PhD (Physics], Adelaide, 1965
MA (Economics), Princeton, 1966
PhD (Economics), Princeton, 1968

LAST APPOINTMENT

Visiting Fellow
Australian Catholic University
August 1996 - July 1998

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Econometrics
La Trobe University
1970 - 1996
 
Wetenschappelijk Hoofdmedewerker
with independent teaching right
Econometric Institute Netherlands School of Economics
1968 - 1970
 
Joseph Henry Fellow etc
Princeton University
1964 - 1968
 
Scientific Officer and other appointments
New Devices Assessment Group
Weapons Research Establishment
Salisbury, South Australia
1958 - 1962 casual

LANGUAGES

English (native)
German (maintained)
French (maintained)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Econometrics Courses of most kinds
(including math eco, O.R. and eco theory)
La Trobe University
1970 - 1996
 
Applied Econometrics Program
Netherlands School of Economics
1968/69 and 1969/70
 
Economic Planning Course
Institute of Social Studies
The Hague
1969

OSP VISITS

ACADEMIC HONOURS

Emeritus Professor
La Trobe University
1996
 
Irving Fisher Monograph Award
New York Region
1969
 
Honorary Graduate Fellow
U.S. Textile Research Institute
1968
 
Tew Prize for Economics
University of Adelaide
1960

LEARNED SOCIETIES

Australian Institute of Physics 1964-
International Joseph A Schumpeter Society 1994-

ADVISING EXPERIENCE

Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission
22 Theodore Street, Curtin, ACT
1985 - 1988
 
Australian Wine and Brandy Producers Association
47 Greenhill Road, Wayville, South Australia
1976 - 1979
 
Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio della Congiuntura
Via Palermo N20, Roma, Italy
1969
 
Mathematica Inc
1 Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ, USA
1968

REFEREEING

For Princeton University Press, Technometrica,
Economic Record, Australian Economic Papers,
Journal of Evolutionary Economics,
Australian Research Council and various
external/internal theses.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

The Philosophy and Economics of Bernard Lonergan
Macrodynamics according to von Neumann, Schumpeter and Lonergan
Lonergan and Kant

 

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

PhD

Dr P Sgro
Dr M Thein
Dr P de Jong
Dr B Nijathaworn
Dr N Perera

MEc

Goo Phai Ng
Ma Kein Thein
B Fradkin
B Nijathaworn
Bai-Ding Hu

ADMINISTRATION

Committees of Council, La Trobe University
Computing Policy Committee (9 years)
Building Committee (2 years)
Traffic Committee (2 years, chair)
Committees of Academic Board. La Trobe University
Academic Board (10 years)
PhD Committee (5 years, chair for 1)
Computer User's Committee (2 years)
Timetable Committee
Lecture Theatre Advisory Committee
ACAD (2 years)
Research Committee
Arts Promotions Committee (6 years)
Science Promotions Committee
Professional Promotions Committee (chair)

Own School, La Trobe University

Acting Dean
Head of Econometrics Group (1970 - 1989)
Chair of Economics Department 1972/3 and late 1974
Student Adviser (14 years)
Student Selection Committee (15 years)
Board of Studies (17 years)
(Joint) School Research Committee (16 years)
Chairs of Examiners Committee (11 years)
Show Cause Committee
Masters by Coursework Committee (2 years, chair)
 
Other Schools, La Trobe University
School of Physical Sciences (6 years)
Selection Committees for Chairs etc. in Genetics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Agriculture, Physical Science, Communication Engineering, etc.
 
Outside Committees
Shell Scholarship (2 years, chair for one) Horace Nowland Scholarship (4 years)
Selection Committees, Melbourne University Science Policy Committee, AIP (4 years)
Family Policy Committee, ACSWC (5 years)
Australian Lonergan Workshop Committee (13 years)

OUTSIDE GRANTS

Earned while with La Trobe University
ARGC (with R Webb and R Weston) 1971 $ 5,732
Rural Credits Research Fund 1977-1978 $12,308
Australian Wine and Brandy Producers 1978 $ 2,000
French Government Bourse 1980 $ 5,000
Australian Department of Finance 1991 $ 1,500

RESEARCH SEMINARS

Princeton University, Netherlands School of Economics, Australian National University, University of Adelaide, Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, GRASCE Aix-en-Provence, Polytechnic of East London, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, La Trobe University, Queensland University, Australian Catholic University.

PUBLICATIONS &/OR CONFERENCES

1. SP Burley, The Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in the Paramagnetic Resonance of the Manganese Ion in Trigonal Sites in Apatite and Smithsonite', Australian Journal of Physics 17(4), pp. 537-542, 1964.

2. ---------, ~Paramagnetic Resonance of Cu2+ and Ti3+ Ions in Borax Beads', Australian Journal of Phvsics, 17(4), pp. 543-546, 1964.

3. --------- and GJ Troup, Paramagnetic Resonance of Fe3 in Benetoite', British Journal of ApPlied Phvsics, 16, pp. 315-318, 1965.

4. ---------, The Dynamic Stability of a Continuously Adjusting Cournot Oligopoly with a Production Lag'. Research Paper No. 20, Econometric Research Program, Princeton University, March 1968.

5. ---------, Fluctuations in the Australian Economy: Viewed by Frequency Techniques'. Research Memorandum No. 94, Econometric Research Program, Princeton University, March 1968.

6. ---------, The Principal Component of the Business Cycle'. Research Report No. 6902, Econometric Institute, Netherlands School of Economics, January 1969.

7. ---------, The Realisation of Technical Progress as a Problem of Demand Structure', Zeitschrift fuer allgemein und textile Marktwirtschaft, Sonderheft, pp. 84-92, 1969.

8. --------- and Oskar Morgenstern, Insiders and Outsiders in Industrial Research', Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 125(2), pp. 193 201, 1969.

9. ---------, New Econometric Techniques for Textile Market Research', Textile Research Journal, 39(7), pp. 648-657, 1969.

10. ---------, A Spectral Analysis of the Australian Business Cycle'. Research Report No. 6919, Econometric Institute, Netherlands School of Economics, July 1969.

11. ---------, Short-Run Auction Price Adjustments'. Research Report No. 6924, Econometric Institute, Netherlands School of Economics, November 1969.

12. ---------, A Spectral Analysis of the Australian Business Cycle', Australian Economic PaPers, 8(3), pp. 193-219, 1969.

13. ---------, 'Short-Run Auction Price Adjustments', Statistica Neerlandica. 24~2), pp. 61-70, 1970.

14. ---------, 'Calculating von Neumann Trajectories by Simulated Market Adjustments'. Research Report No. 7013, Econometric Institute, Netherlands School of Economics, June 1970.

15. ---------, Review of Gaps in Technology. Analytical Report (Paris, OECD, 1970) in The Economic Record, 47(118), pp. 292-293, 1971.

16 ---------, 'Calculating von Neumann Trajectories by Simulated Market Adjustments', in G Bruckmann and W Weber (eds), Contributions to the von Neumann Growth Model (Wien/New York, Springer, 1971).

17. ---------, 'The Principal Component of the Business Cycle', International Economic Review, 12(3), pp. 511-514, 1971.

18. ---------, 'Dynamic Generalisations of the von Neumann Model'. Preprint No. 14, Symposium on Mathematical Methods of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, April 1972.

19. ---------, 'Short Term Variations in Copper Prices'. Research Memorandum No. 82, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, May 1974.

20. ---------, 'Dynamic Generalisations of the von Neumann Model', in J Los and M Los (eds) Mathematical Models in Economics (Warsaw, Polish Scientific Publishers, 1974)

21. ---------, 'An Econometric Study of Copper Market Dynamics', in R Henn and O Moeschlin (eds) Mathematical Economics and Game Theory: EssaYs in Honour of Oskar Morgenstern (Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, Springer, 1977).

22. ---------, 'Economic Modelling for the Wine Industry'. Third Wine Industry Technical Conference PaPers (Adelaide, Australian Wine Research Institute. 1977).

23. ---------, 'Towards a Model of the Australian Brandy Industry'. Submission to the Industries Assistance Commission Inquiry on Spirits, Spirituous Beverages and Compound Alcoholic Preparations, Canberra, 20th October 1977.

24. --------- and J O'Leary, 'Towards a Model of Red and White Base Wine Production'. Report to the Australian Wine and Brandy Producers' Association, 13th December 1978.

25. -------, 'An Economist's Overview of Science Policy', The Australian PhYsicist, 20(21, pp. 5051, 1983

26. ---------, 'Education Today and Public Finance', Social SurveY, 33(8), pp. 232-239, 1984.

27. ---------, Review of 'A Report to the Prime Minister by the Australian Science and Technology Council (ASTEC)' (Canberra, Australian Government Printing Service, 1983) in The Australian Physicist, 21(3), pp. 66, 1984.

28. ---------, 'Education and Public Finance', APC Review, 10(3), pp. 4-5, 1984.

29. ---------, 'Address to National Taxation Summit'. Record of ProceedinRs (Canberra, Australian Government Printing Service, 1985) pp. 64-66.

30. ---------, Review of KG Mortensen, Politics and Sociology of Funding Australian Schools 1962-1984 in ACES Review, 12(3), p. 20, 1985.

31. ---------: Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission, 'A Fair Go for Families', Second Australian Family Research Conference, Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, November 1986.

32. ---------, 'R & D in Economic Development: Some Conceptual Approaches', Conference on Science and Technology in the Budget, National Science and Technology Analysis Group, Canberra, November 1987.

33. ---------, 'von Neumann Models with Money,' 9th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, Keszthely, Hungary, September 1989.

34. ---------, 'A von Neumann Representation of Lonergan's Production Model', Economic Systems Research, 1(3), pp. 317-330, 1989.

35. ---------, 'Economic Decision-Making in a World of Technological Uncertainty', Eleventh Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions and Random Processes, Prague, August 1990: Published by Klower, Dordrecht and ACADEMIA, Prague, pp.323-38, 1992.

36. ---------, 'Social Welfare and Labour Issues', Hungary/Australia Economics Forum, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, January 1991: in Select Proceedings edited by Tamas Felvinczi, Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, pp.73-78, 1991.

37. ~ ---, 'A Quantum Economics for a Schumpeterian Age', 1991 Australasian Meetings of the Econometric Society, Sydney, July 1991.

38. ---------, 'Economic Development as an Escape from Full Employment Entropy Ceilings', Conference on Thermodynamical Thinking in Economics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, October 1991.

39. ---------, 'A Quantum Structure and Dynamics for Technological Change', Second Meeting in the European Conference Series in Quantitative Economics and Econometrics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, December 1991.

40. ---------, 'The Case of Australia (continued)', Seminar on the Investment Process, the Entrepreneur and Economic Policy', Budapest University of Economic Sciences, May 1992.

41. --------- and L Csapo, 'Money Information in Lonergan von Neumann Systems', Economic Systems Research, 4(2), pp. 133-141, 1992.

42. ---------, 'The Lonergan von Neumann Model and an Analysis of its simplest Form', 1992 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, July 1992.

43. ---------, 'Evolutionary von Neumann Models', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2~4), pp. 269, October 1992.

44. ---------, 'A Summary of Lonergan's Economic Diagram', in W Danaher ed, Australian Lonergan Workshop (Lanham/New York/London, University Press of America, 1993) pp. 3-11.

45. ---------, 'Lonergan as a Neo-Schumpeterian', in W Danaher, ibid. pp. 249-257, 1993.

46. P. Burley and J. Foster (eds.) Economics and Thermodynamics: New PersPectives on Economic Analysis (Norwell, MA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994).

47. P. Burley, 'Economic Development as an Escape from Full Employment Entropy Ceilings' in Burley and Foster above.

48. ---------, 'A Macro Basis for Micro Prices', Conference on Post Keynesian Economics: Theory and Policy Alternatives for Australia, La Trobe University, Melbourne, July 1994.

49. --------, 'Schumpeterian Dynamics in a von Neumann Model', Fifth Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, Muenster, August 1994.

50. --------, 'Schumpeterian Historically Increasing Returns', An International Conference in Honor of Professor Arrow, Monash University, Melbourne, 7-8 September 1995.

51. --------, 'Dynamic Production Efficiency in Schumpeter', New England Conference on Efficiency and Productivity, Armidale, 23-24 November 1995.

52. --------, 'Schumpeterian Evolution in von Neumann Growth', Sixth Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, Stockholm, 3-5 June 1996.

53. --------, 'Population Growth and Technological Change', Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the European Society for Population Economics, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, 13-15 June 1996.

54. --------, 'Lonergan, Economics, and Moral Theology', METHOD: Journal of Lonergan Studies, 15(1), pp. 51-55, Spring 1997.

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