Prof Gary Magee - Researcher Profile

Gary Magee

Address

Department of Economics
Monash University, Caulfield

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 31307

Email: Gary.Magee@monash.edu


Biography

Gary Magee is Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business and Economics.

His undergraduate training was undertaken in Melbourne, where he completed a history degree from Monash University in 1986 and then a first-class honours degree in economics from La Trobe University in 1990. At La Trobe he was a D. M. Myer university medallist. In 1991, he went to the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar and obtained his doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford in 1995.

He has held academic positions at the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and the University of London and has had visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the China Development Institute, the University of Leeds, and the Center for the History of American Business, Technology and Society in Delaware, USA.

He is a former Director of the Asian Economics Centre at the University of Melbourne, Head of the School of Economics and Finance at La Trobe University, and Associate Dean (Graduate) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash. In 2005, he held an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship from the Menzies Research Centre at the University of London.

He has published widely in the fields of technological change, economic history and industrial development. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK in recognition of his work in economic history.

Research & Supervision Interests

    Economic history, the economics of innovation and technological change, industrial economics, theories of long-run economic change, international economics and public policy.

Keywords

Economic history, Economics of innovation and technological change, industrial economics, international economics, public policy, theories of long-run economic change

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Oxford University
Year awarded: 1995
BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS (HONS)
Institution: La Trobe University
Year awarded: 1991
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Books

Magee, G., Thompson, A., 2010, Empire and Globalisation : Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914, Cambridge University Press, New York USA.

Jayasuriya, S., MacLaren, D., Magee, G. (eds), 2009, Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Issues, Constraints and Practical Options, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK.

Magee, G.B., 2002, Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Book Chapters

Magee, G., Thompson, A., 2007, 'Migrapounds': Remittance flows within the British world, c.1875-1913, in Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, eds Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 45-62.

Magee, G.B., 2005, Remittances revisited: A case study of South Africa and the Cornish migrant, c. 1870-1914, in Cornish Studies - Thirteen, eds Philip Payton, University of Exeter Press, Exeter UK, pp. 288-306.

Magee, G.B., 2003, Manufacturing and technological change, 1870-1918, in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Volume II: Economic Maturity, 1860-1939, eds Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 74-98.

Journal Articles

Geerling, W., Magee, G.B., 2012, Piecework and the Sovietization of the East German workplace, Central European History [P], vol 45, issue 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 717-743.

Magee, G., 2007, The importance of being British? Imperial factors and the growth of British imports, 1870-1960, Journal Of Interdisciplinary History [P], vol 37, issue 3, MIT Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 341-369.

Magee, G., 2006, As big as it gets: 'Big theory' and the collapse of Darwinism, Social Evolution & History [P], vol 5, issue 1, Izdatel'skii Dom Uchitel', Volgograd Russian Federation, pp. 164-174.

Magee, G., Thompson, A., 2006, 'Lines of credit, debts of obligation': Migrant remittances to Britain, c. 1875-1913, Economic History Review [P], vol 59, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 539-577.

Magee, G., Thompson, A., 2006, The global and local: Explaining migrant remittance flows in the English-Speaking world, 1880-1914, Journal Of Economic History [P], vol 66, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 177-202.

Magee, G., 2005, Rethinking invention: Cognition and the economics of technological creativity, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization [P], vol 57, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 29-48.

Thompson, A.S., Magee, G.B., 2003, A soft touch? British industry, empire markets, and the self-governing dominions, c.1870-1914, Economic History Review [P], vol 56, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 689-717.

Magee, G.B., 2003, Comparative technological creativity in Britain and America at the end of the nineteenth century: The Antipodean experience, The Journal of European Economic History [P], vol 32, issue 3, Unicredit Group, Milan Italy, pp. 555-590.