User:Michael Williams

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

Qualifications

PhD(1989)(Amsterdam) Political Economy; dissertation: "The Value-form Determination of Economic Policy: a dialectical theory of economy, society and state in the capitalist epoch" (jointly written with Geert Reuten); MSc(1976)(London) Economics; BA (1975)(East Anglia, UK) Economics and Philosophy.

Current Research

Behavioural Abstractions in Management and Economics: rationality, intentionality and neuroeconomics; Conceptualising money; Hegel and Marx; The 'mixed economy'.

Recent and key publications

(2007) Is Management Intuition rational? Philosophy of Management (formerly 'Reason in Practice) 6.1 (forthcoming); (2007) Towards a Better Understanding of Managerial Agency: Intentionality, Rationality and EmotionPhilosophy of Management (formerly 'Reason in Practice) 6.2 (forthcoming); (2001) Mysticism, Method and Money in the Marx-Hegel Dialectic, Cambridge Journal of Economics 25.4: 555-568; (2000)Why Marx neither has nor needs a 'Commodity Theory of Money', Review of Political Economy 12.4: 435-452; (1999)The Philosophy of Economic Modelling: a critical survey. South African Journal of Philosophy 18.2: 223-245; (1997)(w. G. Reuten) The Contradictory Imperatives of Social and Economic Policy in the Mixed Economy. Review of Political Economy 9.4 :411-31; (1994)(w. G. Reuten) The Political Economy of Welfare and Economic Policy. The European Journal of Political Economy 10 :253-78 (reprinted as Tinbergen Institute, Economics Theory Reprint no. 3801); (1990) The political economy of privatisation, Chapter 8 in M. Holland & Boston, J. (eds): The Fourth Labour Government: Politics and Policy in New Zealand. Auckland, Oxford University Press,(2nd edn); (1989) (w. G. Reuten) Value-Form and the State: the tendencies of accumulation and the determination of economic policy in capitalist society. London/New York, Routledge, pp 301; (1988)Competition subjects, state and civil society, in Value, Social Form and the State ed. M. Williams. London, Macmillan:96-114; (1982) Industrial policy and the neutrality of the state. Journal of Public Economics, 19.

Academic Employment

Has taught Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy of Economics and/or Corporate Strategy at University of East Anglia (UK), University of Cambridge (King's College), Brunel (the University of West London), Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), de Montfort University (Leicester, UK). Currently at Harrow Business School, University of Westminster (London.