Neil De Marchi
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Neil De Marchi is an Australian economist and historian of economic thought. He received a B.Ec. from the University of Western Australia. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a B.Phil. in economics before returning to Australia to teach at Monash University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University. With interruptions (1966-77 at the University of Amsterdam, 1980-83 as a director of research at the ABN Bank in Amsterdam) he has been a Professor of Economics at Duke University since 1971. He writes in the history of economic ideas and in the history and functioning of markets, in particular markets for art. He assists in editing History of Political Economy.
During the 2007-08 academic year, Neil De Marchi will be co-convening the Recycle Seminar at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute with Mark Anthony Neal and Annabel J. Wharton.
[edit] Major publications
- The Popperian Legacy in Economics (edited, with introduction), 1988.
- Milton Friedman. Economics in Theory and Practice (with Abraham Hirsch), 1990.
- Appraising Economic Theories: Studies in the Methodology of Research Programs (ed. with Mark Blaug), 1991.
- Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics (edited, with introduction), 1992.
