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Publications, research projects and consultancies of Clem Tisdell
No full textProvides statistics on trends in the quantity of publications of Clem Tisdell, changing patterns of their joint authorship and variations in their interdisciplinary nature. The genesis of his publications, particularly his books, is explained, along with the interdependence between them, relationships which would be far from obvious to an independent casual observer. Those publications have had further academic and personal consequences and have given rise to surprising opportunities. A similar study is undertaken of his research projects. His consultancies are briefly discussed and it is demonstrated how they have benefited his academic research and teaching. He has found that economics provides tremendous scope for versatility and diversity in exploring the world around us. </jats:p
Safety and Socio-Economic Issues Raised by Modern Biotechnology
Get PDFModern new biotechnology has the potential to provide major economic and other benefits, but at the same time it poses potential hazards for human health, the environment, the ‘natural’ biological order and can have adverse socio-economic consequences. The application of such technology frequently violates traditional ethical, moral and religious values. This paper after outlining possible benefits of modern new biotechnologies, discusses the type of biosafety risks which they pose, their possible adverse consequences for the sustainability of biodiversity and agriculture and their potential impacts on socioeconomic welfare and traditional cultures. Particular concern is expressed about the possible consequences of such technologies for developing countries and the practice in some developed countries of issuing patents conferring very broad rights over the use of genetically engineered material. Because these rights are so broad in some cases they have the potential to establish powerful multinational monopolies in the hands of private companies. Global debate about these issues suggest that more emphasis should be given globally to the socio-economic consequences of such technology than in the past. The need for this is highlighted by the North-South divide. Developing countries lag considerably in this new technological field, are placed in a dependant position and have weak institutional structures to control the application of such technologybiotechnology, socio-economic policy, genetic engineering, biodiversity, biosafety, patents, Environmental Economics and Policy, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Family Size, Economics and Child Gender Preference: A Case Study in the Nyeri District of Kenya
Get PDFKenyan women have more children, especially in rural areas, than in most developing nations. This is widely believed to be an impediment to Kenya’s economic development. Thus, factors influencing family size in the Kenyan context are important for its future. A brief review of economic theories of fertility leads to the conclusion that both economics and social/cultural factors must be considered simultaneously when examining factors that determine the number of children in a family. The need to do this is borne out in Kenya’s situation by utilising responses from a random sample of rural households in the Nyeri district of Kenya. Economic and social/cultural factors intertwine to influence family sizes in this district. After providing a summary of the main statistical results from the survey, we use multiple regression analysis to explore the influences of a woman’s age, level of education, whether she has outside employment, whether the family keeps livestock, whether she expresses a preference for more boys than girls, whether the family uses only family labour (including child labour) and the size of the farm, which is used as a proxy for family income. It was found that preference for male children has an important positive influence on family size in this district. Women were found to have greater preference for male children than their male counterparts possibly because of their fear of being disinherited if they do not produce an heir for their husbands. Preference for sons was also found in allocation of human capital resources at the household level in that the female respondents were found to have lower levels of education than their male counterparts. Various long-term policies are outlined that may help to reduce the number of offspring of women in Kenya.family size, fertility, child gender preference, human capital formation, costs, benefits, free child labour, marital status, and age., Labor and Human Capital,
A Conversation with Clem Tisdell
No full textThis is an interview with one of Australia’s most prolific publishers in the economics discipline. Clem Tisdell can be regarded as a pioneer of ecological, natural resource and environmental economics. The conversation takes us through the variety of his interests over the years, which he usefully categorises into six interrelated strands of research. We chart his career from humble beginnings through appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Newcastle and finally the University of Queensland.Economics
An interview with Clem Tisdell
No full textClem Tisdell is one of Australia’s pre‐eminent economists who has made decisive contributions in several areas of economics, perhaps most notably development economics, environmental economics and natural resource economics. Tisdell is presently Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and is also a long‐standing member of the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Social Economics. This interview, which falls in the tradition of Klamer, was recorded in his Brisbane home in November 1995 and seeks to explore Tisdell’s extraordinary career, the development of his thinking about economics in general and his prodigious research output in particular. Tisdell answered the questions in his customary quietly‐spoken and good‐humoured manner.</jats:p
A conversation with Clem Tisdell [Interview with Clement Allan Tisdell (born 18 November 1939) by Lodewijks, John.]
No full textThis is an interview with one of Australia's most prolific publishers in the economics discipline. Clem Tisdell can be regarded asa a pioneer of ecological, natural resource and environmental economics. The conversation takes us through a variety of his interests over the years, which he usually categorises into six interrelated strands of research. We chart his career from humble beginnings through appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Newcastle and finally the University of Queensland
Economics of commercial giant clam mariculture/ Edit. : Clem Tisdell
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Sustainability: can it be achieved? Is economics the bottom line?
No full textClem Tisdell Introduction To many, it will seem obvious that economics must be the bottom line in determining whether sustainability will be achieved in practice. There can be little doubt that in our increasingly market-driven and globalizing world, the bulk of individuals and groups act to promote their own economic interest. Economic self-interest is an extremely strong motivator of human actions. When economic self-interest clashes with (social) sustainability goals, these latter goals are unlikely to be met, and some government intervention may be desirable to bring private self-interest into line with the socially perceived interest. Intervention could, for example, take the form of taxes or charges on pollution emissions, or prohibitions on environmental damage backed up by penalties for non-compliance such as might apply to illegal tree-clearing. But obvious formulation of problems is often deceptive. For example, the economic bottom line for business or an individual may be different to that for a society. Questions may also be raised about the extent to which individuals act in their own selfish economic interest, narrowly conceived, and the extent to which they are influenced by moral dimensions (Etzioni, 1988, 1991; Tisdell, 1997). The basis of human action is quite complex. However, before giving further attention to this matter, the meaning, desirability and possibility of achieving sustainability is considered and an opinion is given as to whether the goal of sustainability is a useful guide to human action and public policy. Then attention turns to the sense(s) in which economics…
Stability and Cycles in a Cobweb Model with Heterogeneous Expectations
Get PDFWe investigate the dynamics of a cobweb model with heterogeneous beliefs, generalizing the example of Brock and Hommes (1997). We examine situations where the agents form expectations by using either rational expectations, or a type of adaptive expectations with limited memory defined from the last two prices. We specify conditions that generate cycles. These conditions depend on a set of factors that includes the intensity of switching between beliefs and the adaption parameter. We show that both Flip bifurcation and Neimark-Sacker bifurcation can occur as primary bifurcation when the steady state is unstable.Bounded rationality, Cobweb model, Flip bifurcation, Neimark-Sacker bifurcation.
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