Oakley, Allen 1943-

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OAKLEY, Allen 1943-

PERSONAL: Born July 22, 1943, in Adelaide, Australia; married Renate Rosenauer (a language teacher), February 1, 1982; children: Tania. Education: University of Adelaide, B.Ec. (with first class honors), 1972, Ph.D., 1980. Politics: "Democratic Socialist."

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Economics, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia. E-mail—ecaco@alinga.newcastle.edu.au

CAREER: Writer. Adelaide College of Advanced Education, Adelaide, Australia, lecturer in economics, 1973–77; University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia, lecturer, 1977–82, senior lecturer, 1983–89, associate professor of economics, 1990–.

MEMBER: International Network for Economic Method, History of Economic Thought Society (Australia), Association for Social Economics, History of Economics Society.

WRITINGS:

The Making of Marx's Critical Theory: A Bibliographical Analysis, Routledge & Kegan Paul (Boston, MA), 1983.

Marx's Critique of Political Economy: Intellectual Sources and Evolution, Routledge & Kegan Paul (Boston, MA), Volume 1, 1984, Volume 2, 1985.

(Editor and author of introduction) Adolph Lowe, Essays in Political Economics: Public Control in a Democratic Society, New York University Press (New York, NY), 1987.

Schumpeter's Theory of Capitalist Motion: A Critical Exposition and Reassessment, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, VT), 1990.

Classical Economic Man: Human Agency and Methodology in the Political Economy of Adam Smith and J.S. Mill, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, VT), 1994.

The Foundations of Austrian Economics from Menger to Mises: A Critico-historical Retrospective of Subjectivism, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, VT), 1996.

The Revival of Modern Austrian Economics: A Critical Assessment of its Subjectivist Origins, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, VT), 1999.

Reconstructing Economic Theory: The Problem of Human Agency, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, VT), 2002.

Contributor to economic journals.

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