Chairman of department: Dr J. P. Nieuwenhuysen Professors JAMES OLIVER NEWTON PERKINS
CHARLES SAMUEL SOPER
Truby Williams Professor LESLIE ROY WEBB Professor of Econometrics ROSS A L A N WILLIAMS Readers ERNEST ARTHUR BOEHM
JOHN PETER NIEUWENHUYSEN
Senior Lecturers RAYMOND JOHN ALBERT HARPER KEVIN W I L L I A M HINCE
ARNOLD KAN NAOMI MOLDOFSKY NEVILLE NORMAN (on leave) JOHN ERNEST SULLIVAN Lecturers RICHARD HUGH A L L A N
LESLIE GORDON CUPPER ALAN W I L L I A M GUNTHER JUNE MARGARET HEARN ROBIN DOUGLAS HOCKING JOCELYN HORNE
I A N MARTIN MeDONALD UNG-SUH PARK
RHONDA LYNETTE SMITH PHILIP LAURENCE W I L L I A M S Senior Tutors JACOB A B R A H A M I
DAVID ANDREW ELDER JULIE ELIZABETH LEE JUDITH SLOAN
MICHAEL JAMES O'REAR DON SWANN JULIAN TEICHER
Tutors ANTHONY ASPROMOURGOS ROBERT JOHN DIXON
ANNA HOOI YOKE KENG SANDRA JONES
JANETTE ELIZABETH PRICE
Part-time Lecturer JOHN HERBERT REEVES
RESEARCH TOPICS IN PROGRESS 1. Economic analysis of crop diffusion.
2. The economic status of Australian aborigines.
3. The 'Kaleckian' roots of Keynes' General Theory.
4. The role of inter-sectoral wage differentials in macro models.
5. The importance of structural change as a proximate source of variation in the aggregate wage share.
6. The relationship between the average age of the capital stock and the sectoral distribution of income.
7. Income distribution, poverty and the relationship between personal taxation and means testing.
8. A revision of Twentieth Century Economic Development in Australia.
9. The financial requirements of industry.
10. Foreign ownership and control of industry in Australia.
11. Investment decision-making procedures of firms in Australia.
12. The economics of test cricket.
13. Industrial economics: an Australian study.
14. Non-tatonnement stabilisation.
15. Government intervention in industry.
16. Labour and manpower planning policies for industry.
17. Explanation and implications of'rigid' money wages and prices.
18. Economic implications of restrictive trade practices.
19. Foreign investment in Australia.
20. Structural change and market forces.
21. The co-ordination of piece-meal economic decisions.
22. The development of time series of cost of production for the farm sector, disaggregated hy product group.
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70 FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE 23. An econometric model of Australian agriculture.
24. Rural products and the international sector.
25. Macro-economic policy in theory and practice.
26. Analysis of price expectations.
27. Structural changes in consumer demand.
28. Employment in white-collar unions.
29. Industrial relations in the open-cut black coal industry.
30. Political strikes - case studies.
31. Trade in motor cars between major producer nations.
32. The economics of air transport.
33. Growth cycles in Australia since World War I I .
34. Wages, inflation and economic policy in industrial countries.
35. Shiftworking in manufacturing industry as an indicator of capital utilization in Germany, U.S.A. and U.K.
36. Comparative efficiency of manufacturing industry in Germany, U.S.A. and U.K.
37. Bougainville: a case study in the theory and practice of change.
38. Methodological issues in economics.
39. Criteria for prices justification.
PUBLISHED WORK Books
1. HARPER, R. J. A. - (with Shirley Home and Louise Buchanan) - Means Testing and Social Welfare Policv. A.C.O.S.S., Sydney, vii + 162 (1978).
2. PERKINS, J. O. N . - Crisis-Point in Australian Economic Policy? Macmillan, 50 (1978).
3. W I L L I A M S , P. L. - The Emergence o f the Theorv of the Firm. Macmillan, London, 207 (1978).
Chapters of Books
4. HARPER, R. J. A. — Poverty in Australia - A Reappraisal, in The Economy in Operation 3.
eds J. Brown, I . Harrison, K. Nailor and S. Pinchen, V.C.T.A., 165-177 (1978).
5. HARPER, R. J. A. — Families in Poverty, in The Familv in Australia, eds J. Krupinski and A. Stoller, Pergamon Press, 2nd ed, 210-228 (1978).
6. HEARN. J. M . — Migration Policies, the Migrant Worker and Trade Unions, in The Immigration Issue in Australia, eds R. Birrell and C. Hay, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, 115-131 (1978).
7. HEARN. J. M . and CUPPER, L. G. - Industrial Relations Teaching in Australian Universities: the Industrial Relations Programme, University of Melbourne, in Ind. Relations Teach, and Res. in Aust. & N.Z.. ed D. Turkington. Industrial Relations Centre, Victoria, University of Wellington.
8. NIEUWENHUYSEN, J. P. and SLOAN, J. - Wages Policy, in Surveys of Aust. Eco.. ed F. H. Gruen, Allen and Unwin for the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Sydney, 91- 132 (1978).
9. PERKINS, J. — Macroeconomic Policy in Australia 1970-77, in The Economy in Operation 3, op. cit. 99-109.
Reports
10. WEBB, L. R. - Report ofthe Committee of Inquiry in the South Australian Dairy Industry - L. R. Webb, Chairman (August 1977).
Articles
11. A L L A N , R. H. and VALENTINE, T. J. - An Econometric Analysis of Last Resort Borrowing, Deposit Rates and Levels of Deposits on the Short-Term Money Markets, Aust. J.
of Management. 1-15 (1978).
12. A L L A N , R. H. - Changes in the Australian Short-Term Money Markets, J. of Aust. Soc. of Security Analysts 2: 17-22 (1978).
13. CUPPER, L. G. - Worker Participation - Theory and Practice^, of Eco. f o r Schools 20: 31- 35 (1978).
14. DIXON, R. and THIRLWALL, A. P. - Growth Rate Stability in the Kaldorian Regional Model, Scottish J. o f Political Eco. 25: 97-99 (1978).
15. MeDONALD, I . — Microeconomic Motivation and the Kaldorian Theory o f t h e Rate of Profit, Aust. Eco. Papers 17: 276-289 (1978).
ECONOMICS 71 16. SMITH, R. L. and SMITH, A. W. - The Changing Position of the Rural Sector in the
Australian Economy Since 1945, Aust. Eco. Review 3: 59-70 (1978).
17. WILLIAMS, R. A. - Wants and Working Wives: Household Demand and Saving in Australia, Eco. Record 54: 32-44 (1978).
THESIS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREE Master of Commerce
1. NOTTLE, R. - Income taxation and life assurance: an economic analysis THESES IN PROGRESS
PhD Theses in Progress
GRIFFIN, G. D. — White-Collar unionism in Australia: the growth of militancy
MAHMOOD, M. - Jute and synthetics: a study of technical change and trade in the jute market RICH, J. — Flow theory of the labour market
SAVAGE, B. A. — The provision of transport services in Australia - the interaction of public and private enterprise
SCHUYERS, G. P. - An analysis of Australian energy resources
SMITH, R. L. — An econometric model of Australian agriculture with emphasis on disaggregated profitability
STRICKER, P. - Analysis of flow processes in the Australian labour market TULPULE, A. H. — Factors affecting the supply of labour
MCom Theses in Progress ASPROMOURGOS, A. - The political economy of John Locke
BEVAN, M. — Case study of a union wage policy — an enquiry into the influence of trade union militancy on relative wages
COWANS, G. E. - The structural determinants of technological progress: a cross-sectional study of research and development activity in Australian manufacturing industry
CRANE, R. P. - Determinants of industrial relations in professional employment; the case ofthe Victorian Institute of Colleges
DE SILVA, M. A. - A case study of the impact of the cost of funds of firms in the metals fabrication industry
DEERY, S. J. - The national stevedoring industry conference and its impact on industrial relations in the A uslralian stevedoring industry
ENSLEY. R. G. - Some aspects of industrial relations in small manufacturing business firms HARRISON, A. W. - The statutory corporation in industrial relations
HOGG, T. M. - The valuation of private time savings by inter urban travellers
JOHNS, R. F. - An examination and evaluation of the major factors causing longer term variations in private capital expenditure on new housing in Australia from 1948-49 to the present and an assessment of the analysis Jor the future private capital expenditure on new housing KHAW, P. C. L. — Dualism in the Malaysian economy
LEAVESLEY, J. A. - A study of the Australian maritime labour market
MAHLER, F. W. - The developing countries: A case for the development of the traditional economics organisation
McPHEE, J. M. - The industrial relations system in the pulp and paper industry in Australia MELOTTE, Y. M. - Urban development
RAWLINSON, M. J. - Labour turnover in the technical musterings of the RAAF: an economic analysis
ROBERTS, J. H. - A comparative study of short term J'orecasting techniques used in planning a telephone network
ROWE, B. A. - The oil industry in Fiji - 1958-1978: an analytical industrial relations study SANDY, G. A. - Metropolitan local government and its role in social welfare in Victorian Region 14 with special emphasis on the provision of domiciliary services for aged persons
TOME, J. A. - Industrial relations and technological change: a comparative study of the metropolitan daily newspaper industry in Melbourne and Madrid
WALLS. A. J. - The Industries Assistance Commission - an examination ofthe operations origin and impact of an economic policy institution
WARING, C. L. - Changes in land use in the Wonthaggi area 1950-70 WARRELL, C. J. — A comparative study of the taxation of company income WATSON, I. R. — Price determination in Australian industry
WILLIAMS, D. G. — Local government finance in Victoria
XAVIER. P. A. — Principles to guide road user charges in Australia: economic issues
72 FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE MA Theses in Progress
DOBSON, W. - Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia, 1904-1977: a study in the developmenland evolution of material employers co-operation and unity
FIELD, H. K. — A studv of the factors affecting the markets for Australian meal exports to the USA and Japan. 1972-76
TATNELL, W. J. - Structural change wilh reference to factors influencing work possibilities in wholesaling and retailing in Australia in 1990
SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED Grants have been received as follows:
ARGC: World trade in agricultural products and Australian agriculture.
Education Research and Development Committee: A comparative study of the incorporation of interpreters in established institutions and the policy implications for education.
Reserve Bank of Australia: An econometric study of the demand for and cost of air transport in Australia.
Wool Research Trust Fund of the Australian Wool Corporation and the Reserve Bank of Australia:
Cost of production time series for rural industry commodity groups.