CURRICULUM VITAE: Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai

Current Appointments:
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics & CIFREM 1
University of Trento
Trento, Italy
Tel: +39 0461 882278
Fax: +39 0461 882335
[Link]@[Link]
Preferred e-mail: kvelupillai@[Link]

Date & place of birth: September 25, 1947; Colombo, Sri Lanka
Citizenship: Swedish
Languages: Tamil, Singhalese, English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish (and
some German & Spanish).

Academic

1979-80: Ph.D. King's College, Cambridge University (1973-76), England.

[Thesis: "Aspects of the Structural Dynamics of Capitalist
Economies"; Supervisors: Professor Lord Kaldor &
Professor Richard M Goodwin]
1973: [Link]. University of Lund, Lund, Sweden [Thesis: "Some
Cybernetic Approaches to Macroeconomics"]
1970: B.E. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
1966: (Japanese Lang., & [Link].) Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
1965: High School Royal College, Colombo, Ceylon

Scholarships/Fellowships and other awards

․ Various Academic and Sports awards at primary, middle and high schools
․ Japanese Government (‘Mombusho’: Ministry of Education) Scholarship for Undergraduate
Education in Japan, 1965-1970.
․ Swedish Government (University) award (‘Doktorand Stipendium’) for doctoral studies at Lund
and Cambridge Universities, 1973-75.
․ C.O.R.E Research Fellowship, 1977-78.
․ Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Elected to a Teaching Fellowship, 1981 (declined)
․ US National Science Foundation/Ford Foundation Visiting Professorship at the People’s
University, Beijing, China, 1988.
․ Invited to give the Fourth Arne Ryde Lectures, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 1994.
․ Honorary Professor of Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast, 1998-2003.
․ Central Bank of Uruguay Distinguished Invited Lecturer, 1998, Montevideo, Uruguary.
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The Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management..
․ Visiting Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Lent & Easter Terms, 2001.
․ Japan Society for the Promotion of the Sciences, Visiting Professor at Kyoto University,
2003-4 (declined).
․ Elected Foreign Corresponding Member, Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, April, 2006.
․ Elected Official Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, September, 2006.
․ Invited to give the Herbert Simon Lectures, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Republic of
China, December, 2008.
․ Awarded the ‘2009 Nord-Sud Fondazione Pescarabbruzzo Award’ for the Social Sciences.
․ Nominated and appointed an ‘Honorary Professor’ at the University of Technology Sydney, for
the academic year, 2009/2010.

Main Past Academic and Professional Appointments

[Since 1999, Standing Senior Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Madras, India]

2006-2008
Fellow, College Lecturer & Director of Studies in Economics
Girton College, Cambridge

2001-2008
John E. Cairnes Professor of Economics (tenured), Department of Economics, National University
of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland

1995-1998
Professor of Economics (tenured) Department of Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast

1994-95
Senior Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway.

1993 (Sep-Dec)
Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Prague

1993 (July-Aug)
Consultant, International Economics and Socio-Economic Data Division, The World Bank,
Washington D.C.

1991-93
Associate Director, Center for Computable Economics and Adjunct (Full) Professor (appointed for
the period 1993-1998, but resigned in 1993), Department of Economics, UCLA.

1986-90:
Professor (tenured) of Macroeconomics Aalborg University; and Visiting Professorships at the
Institute d´Etudes Politiques de Paris, UCLA, Universities of Copenhagen and Modena.

1981-85:
Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence; Consultant to
UN-ESCAP (1981) on Development Planning and to the UNDP (1982).

1980-81:
Director of Studies (Economics), Peterhouse, Cambridge; Research Associate (Economics), Energy
Research Group, Cavendish Lab., Cambridge University.
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1975-79:
Research positions at Imperial College, London; and at the University of Lund and the Universite
Catholique de Louvain (C.O.R.E)

Editorial Activities

• Associate Editor (1987), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (JEDC) and from,
January 1, 1991, JEDC Book Review Editor, North-Holland Publishers; resigned in 1997.

• Associate Editor Journal of Computational Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers,

1991-1997 (resigned).

• From February, 2002: Series Editor (jointly with Francesco Luna of the IMF), Routledge
Series on Experimental and Computable Economics.

• 2002: Invited Editor for a Special Issue of Metroeconomica on ‘Computability,

Constructivity and Complexity in Economics’.

• From 2004: Member, Editorial Board Springer Series on Complexity

• From 2006: Series Editor, Routledge Major Works Series on New Trends & Frontiers in
Economic Theory

• From 2009: Member, Board of Advisory Editors, Economia Politica/ Journal of Analytical
and institutional Economics, Il Mulino, Bologna.

Ph. D, MA/MSc & BA Thesis/Dissertation guidance/supervision:

Supervision to completion of PhD dissertations in: Cambridge (2), Florence (3), Modena (3)
Aalborg (1), and UCLA (5), NUI Galway (1).

Supervision to completion scores of dissertations in Italy, Ireland and the UK at MA/MSc and
Undergraduate levels.

Ph.D Examiner at Universities in Australia (University of Technology, Sydney), Denmark (Aalborg

University), France (Institute d´Etudes Politiques de Paris), Italy (European University Institute,
Fiesole; University of Modena), Malaysia (University of Malaya), Sweden (University of Lund),
UK (University of Wales, Cardiff; Cambridge University) and USA (UCLA), Spain (University of
Alcala).

Referee work (since 1978):

For: Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic
Theory, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Taiwan Journal of Political Economy, Journal of
Econometrics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, The Scottish
Journal of Political Economy, Metroeconomica, Journal of Macroeconomics, Computational
Economics, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Structural Change and
Economic Dynamics, Economic Issues, Mind & Society.

Referee/Reviewer of Book Manuscripts and Essays for Books for various leading publishers.

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Invited Lectures/Seminars:

Universities of Mannheim (1985) and Frankfurt (1993) in Germany; Aarhus in Denmark (1985);
Siena, Bergamo (1986), Trento, Pisa (Scuola Normale) (1982), Bologna, John Hopkins (Bologna)
(1986), Modena, Einaudi Foundation (Turin), Enrico Mattei Foundation (Milan) (1996), Venice in
Italy (1999); the O.F.C.E. in Paris (2000); University of Inner Mongolia in the Peoples' Republic of
China (1988), Institute of Advanced Study in Vienna, Austria (1989); The Chinese Academy of
Science in Beijing and Taipei; National Chengchi and National Chung Cheng Universities, in
Taiwan (1992, 1996); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1993); the Universitites of California
(Irvine) (1990), South Carolina (1991), University of Southern California and James Madison
University (2005), in the US (1992); University of Strathclyde (1981), Exeter University (1997) and
Cambridge University in the UK (1994); University of Malaya (1996), the Malaysian Institute of
Economic Research and the Economic Planning Unit, in Malaysia (1996); University of
Gothenburg in Sweden (1994); Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1993); Marga
Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka (2000); UNAM in Mexico City (1997, 1998) and the National
University of Ireland in Galway (1999).

Teaching Experience

I have taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Cambridge (UK), European University
Institute, Florence (Fiesole), University of Lund (in Swedish), University of Modena (Italy),
Universities of Copenhagen and Aalborg (Denmark), UCLA, Beijing, Central European University,
Prague, the Queen’s University of Belfast, Madras School of Economics, University of Trento (in
Italian) and the National University of Ireland, Galway.

At the undergraduate level:

(a). Capital and Time (Cambridge).
(b). Principles of Economics (Aalborg – in Swedish).
(c). Macroeconomics (UCLA, Aalborg – in Swedish, Beijing, Queen’s).
(d). Capital Theory (Lund).
(e). Growth Theory (Lund).
(f). History of Economic Theory (UCLA, Aalborg and Trento (in Italian) for the academic year
1999-2000).
(g). Computational Economics (UCLA).
(h). Development Economics (Queen’s University, Belfast).
(i). Quantitative Methods in Economics (Queen’s University, Belfast)
(j). The Pure Theory of International Trade (Trento - in Italian, academic year 1999-2000.)
(k). International Monetary Economics (Trento - in Italian, academic year, 1999-2000 and 2000-1).

At the postgraduate level:

(a). Trade Cycle Theory (Aalborg, UCLA, Copenhagen, Modena and Beijing).
(b). Macroeconomics (UCLA, Beijing, Prague, Madras and Galway.)
(c). Estimation Theory (Florence).
(d). Computable Economics (UCLA).
(e). History of Economic Theory (UCLA).
(f). Public Finance (Copenhagen)

Graduate and Staff Seminars:

At UCLA I organised the weekly seminar series on Computable Economics, 1990-93.

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PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs:

1. Growth Cycles and Multisectoral Economics: the Goodwin Tradition (Ed.

K. Velupillai and G. Ricci), Lecture Notes in Economic and Mathematical
Systems, #309, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg and New York, 1988.

2. Nonlinear and Mutisectoral Macrodynamics: Essays in Honor of Richard

Goodwin. (ed. K. Velupillai)
Macmillan, London, 1989.

3. Recent Developments in Business Cycle Theory. (ed. K. Velupillai, N.

Thygesen, and S. Zambelli), Proceedings of the IEA held in Rungsted Kyst, June 7-11, 1989
Macmillan, London, 1991.

4. Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and Simulation (ed. K. Velupillai)

Macmillan, London, 1992.

5. Inflation, Institutions and Information; Essays in Honour of Axel Leijonhufvud (ed. by

K. Vela Velupillai and Daniel Vaz)
Macmillan, London, 1996.

6. Computable Economics (The Fourth Arne Ryde Lectures)

Oxford University Press, January, 2000.

7. Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi (ed.
by K. Vela Velupillai)
Routledge, London, April, 2004.

8. Computability, Complexity and Constructivity in Economic Analysis (ed. by K. Vela

Velupillai)
Blackwell’s Publishers, Oxford, March, 2005

Books in preparation:

1. Lectures on Computable Economics

[In preparation for Oxford University Press, Oxford]

2. Models of Simon
[In preparation for Routledge, London]

3. Computable Foundations for Economics

(Manuscript Completed)
[To be published by Routledge, London, 2008]

4. Routledge Major Works Series: Experimental Economics

(Edited jointly with Luigi Mittone and with the assistance of Stephen Kinsella)

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Articles in [Refereed] International Journals:

1. "Cobb-Douglas or the Wicksell Production Function: A Comment",

Economy and History, Vol. XVI, 1973.

2. "A Note on the Origins of the Correspondence Principle",

Swedish Journal of Economics, Vol. 75, pp. 302-304, 1973.

3. "Irving Fisher on `Switches of Techniques´: A Historical Note",

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 4, November, pp. 679-680, 1975.
[Reprinted in: Pioneers in Economics – Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) edited by Mark Blaug,
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 1992]

4. "Respecifying the Weighting Matrix of a Quadratic Objective Function", (with

B. Rustem and J.H Westcott),
Automatica, Vol. 14, November, pp. 567-582, 1978.

5. "Some Stability Properties of Goodwin's Growth Cycle",

Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Vol. 38 #3-4, pp. 245-257, 1979.

6. "When Workers Save - and Invest: Some Kaldorian Dynamics",

Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Vol. 42, #3, pp. 247-258, 1982.

7. "Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics: The Contributions of Richard Goodwin",

Economic Notes, Vol. 11, #3, pp. 73-92, 1983.

8. "A Neo-Cambridge Model of Income Distribution and Unemployment",

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. V, #3, Spring, pp. 454-473, 1983.

9. "A Note on Lindahl's Theory of Distribution", (with G. Chiodi),

Kyklos, Vol. 36, Fasc.1, pp. 103-111, 1983.

10. "Cooperation Between Politicians and Econometricians and the Search for
Optimal Economic Policy", (with B. Rustem),
Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 6, #3, 1984.

11. "On Rationalizing Expectations Using Rank-One Updates of the Kalman Filter" (with B.
Rustem),
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 10, pp. 119-124, 1986.

12. "Objective Functions and the Complexity of Policy Design", (with B. Rustem),
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 11, No. 2, June, pp. 185-192, 1987.

13. "Some Swedish Stepping Stones to Modern Macroeconomics",

Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. XIV, January-March, 1988.

14. "The Existence of the Standard System: Sraffa's Constructive Proof",

Political Economy – Studies in the Surplus Approach, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-12, 1989.

15. "Rationality, Computability and Complexity", (with B. Rustem),

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 14, No. 2, May, pp. 419-432, 1990.

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16. "On Leif Johansen's Model of Economic Growth",
Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol.22, pp.153-159, 1993.

17. “The Computable Approach to Economics”,

Taiwan Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sep., pp. 53-110, 1995.

18. “Irving Fisher on a ‘Fundamental Theorem’ in Neo-Austrian Capital Theory”,

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Ecoinomics/Zeitschrift für die Gesamte
Staatswissenschaft, Vol. 151, No.3, Sep., pp. 556-564, 1995.

19. "The Unfashionable Elegance of Tsuru’s Unorthodox Economics",

The Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, December, pp. 1213-1230, 1995.

20. “The Computable Alternative in the Formalization of Economics: A Counterfactual Essay”,

Kyklos, Vol. 49, Fasc.3, pp. 252-72. 1996.

21. "The Economy as a Structurally Complex, Evolving Dynamical System: Goodwin's

Contours" (jointly with L. F. Punzo).
Economic Notes, Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 179-205, 1996.

22. “An ‘Unfinished’ Essay on Interesting Dynamics”,

Taiwan Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 2, Sep., pp. 21-57, 1996.

23. “Expository Notes on Computability and Complexity in (Arithmetical) Games”,

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.21, No.6, pp. 955-79, June, 1997.

24. “The Vintage Economist”,

The Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Vol.37, No.1, Sep., pp. 1-31, 1998.

25. “Richard Goodwin: 1913-1996”

The Economic Journal, Vol. 108, September, 1998, pp.1436-1449.
[Awarded the Anbar Prize for Excellence in Writing]

26. “Comportamiento Adaptable”

Revista De Economia (Segunda Epoca), Volumen V, Número 2, Noviembre, pp. 3-32, 1998

27. “Undecidability, Computation Universality and Minimality in Economic Dynamics”,

The Journal of Economic Surveys, December, 1999
[Reprinted in: Surveys in Economic Dynamics edited by Donald A. R. George, Les Oxley
and Simon Potter, Chapter 6, pp. 149-174; Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2000]

28. “Disequilibrium, Nonmaximum Macrodynamics”

Economic Systems Research, Vol.11, No.2, June, pp. 113-126, 1999.

29. “The Wisdom and Wit of Sen’s Contribution to Capital Theory: Some
Sketches”,
Review of Development and Change, Vol.V, No.1, January-June, pp. 1-23, 2000.

30. “Effectivity and Constructivity in Economic Theory”

The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.49, Issue, 3, pp. 307-325,
November, 2002.

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31. “Constructivity, Computability and Computers in Economic Theory: Some Cautionary
Notes”,
Metroeconomica, Vol. 55, Issue 2-3, pp. 121-140, May 2004.

32. “Computation and Economic Dynamics: Resurrecting the Icarus Tradition”,

Metroeconomica, Vol. 55, Issue 2-3, pp. 239-64, May, 2004.

33. “The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Economics”,

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, Issue 6, pp. pp. 849-872, November, 2005.

34. “The Algorithmic Foundations of Computable General Equilibrium Theory”,

Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 179, #1, August, pp. 360-9, 2006.

35. “A Disequilibrium Macrodynamic Model of Fluctuations”,

Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 28, Issue 4, December, pp. 752-767, 2006.

36. “Variations on the Theme of Conning in Mathematical Economics”,

Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 21, No. 3., pp. 466-505, July, 2007.
[Reprinted in: Issues in Heterodox Economics edited by Donald A. George, Chapter 4, pp.
53-93; Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2008.]

37. “Japanese Contributions to Non-Linear Cycle Theory in the 1950s”,

Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, March, pp. 54-74, 2008.

38. “Sraffa’s Constructive Mathematical Economics”,

Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 15, No.4, December, pp. 325-348, 2008.

39. “Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the
Undecidable in Mathematical Economics”,
Forthcoming: New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2008
[A Special Issue of the Journal will be devoted to this paper, with invited comments from a
panel of distinguished economists and mathematicians]

40. “The Mathematization of Macroeconomics”,

Forthcoming: Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics], Vol.
XXV, Issue 3, August, pp. 283-316, 2008.

41. “Uncomputability and Undecidability in Economic Theory”,

Forthcoming in: Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2009.

42. “Macroeconomics – A Clarifying Note”

Forthcoming in: Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics],
Vol. XXVI, Issue 1, April, pp. 129-131, 2009.

43. “Equality, Absurdity Subjectivity: Thomas Nagel’s Passion for Exact Philosophical
Enquiry”, Forthcoming in: Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional
Economics], Vol. XXVI, Issue 1, April, pp.15-19, 2009.

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Review Articles & Review Notes

1. "A Review Essay on: `Studies in Business-Cycle Theory´ by R.E. Lucas, Jr.",
(jointly with J.-P. Fitoussi),
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 19, #1, 1987.

2. “Money, the Labour Market and Growth in Disequilibrium Macrodynamics – A Review

Note”,
Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Vol. 78, #1, January, 2003, pp.83-96.

3. “Microeconomics at the Frontiers: From the Cradle to the Towers – A Review Article of
Hirschleifer and Bowles”,
Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, (Forthcoming).

Recently Completed Papers Published (or to be Published) in Edited Volumes in 2007 -8

1. The Impossibility of an Effective Theory of Policy in a Complex Economy, in: Complexity

Hints for Policy, edited by David Colander and Massimo Salzano, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
and New York, March, 2007.

2. “Demystifying Induction and Falsification: Trans-Popperian Suggestions”, Invited Paper

presented at the Popper Centennial hosted by the Government of Austria and the Irish
Academy of Sciences, September, 2002. Published in: Popper and Economic
Methodology: Contemporary Challenges edited by Tom Boylan and Pascal O’Gorman,
Chapter 8, pp. 143-163, Routledge, London, 2007.

3. “Hicksian Visions and Vignettes on (Non-Linear) Trade Cycle Theories”,

Invited Lecture, Presented at the Hicks Centennial, held at the University of Bologna, 10-
11, October, 2004; DP #7, November, 2004, Department of Economics, University of
Trento; Revised version titled: A Perspective on a Hicksian Non-Linear Theory of the Trade
Cycle, in: Markets, Money and Capital: Hicksian Economics for the 21st Century,
Chapter 18, pp. 328-345, edited by Roberto Scazzieri, Amartya Sen & Stefano Zamagni,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.

4. “Sraffa’s Economics in Non-Classical Mathematical Modes”, in: Sraffa or Alternative

Economics edited by Guglielmo Chiodi and Leonardo Ditta, Chapter 14, pp. 275-94,
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008.

5. “A Computable Economist's Perspective on Computational Complexity”, in: The Handbook

of Complexity Research, Chapter 4, pp. 36-83, Edited by: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., Edward
Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009.

6. “A Stochastic Complexity Perspective of Induction in Economics and Inference in

Dynamics”, in: Festschrift in Honour of Jorma Rissanen on the Occasion of his 75th
Birthday, Chapter 15, pp. 251-273, edited by Peter Grünwald, Petri Myllymäki, Ion Tabus,
Marcelo Weinberger & Bin Yu, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland,
2008.

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Invited Lectures, 2008

1. “Nonlinear, Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics in Behavioural Economics – Celebrating

Richard Day’s Contributions”.
Invited Laudatio Lecture at the Conference in Honour of Richard Day, Max Planck
Institute, Jena, May, 16, 2008.

2. “Decision Theory and Choice – Computable Foundations for a Complexity Approach”,

Invited Plenary Lecture to be presented at the Conference on Decision Theory and Choice:
a Complexity Approach, in Memory of Massimo Salzano, Department of Economic
Sciences and Statistics, University of Salerno, June 19/20, 2008.

3. “The Emerging Algorithmic Sciences: Statistics, Economics and Game Theory”, Invited
Lecture to be presented at the Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science
and Engineering, Tampere, Finland, August, 18/19, 2008 [Postponed, due to ill-health, for
delivery in 2009].

4. “Uncomputability and Undecidability in Ecnonomic Theory”,

Invited Lecture at the 8th Unconventional Computing Symposium, Vienna, 27-30, August,
2008.

In Preparation / Recently Completed Manuscripts

1. “Reappraising Fix-Point Formalizations of Rational Expectations Equilibria”, WP #96,

Department of Economics, NUI Galway, September, 2005. (Accepted for publication,
subject to substantial revisions, by the Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie).

2. “The Emergence of the Non-Linear Theory of the Business Cycle: 1928-1953”, Trento,
February, 2008.

3. “Popper’s Brouwerian Fallacies”, Trento, April, 2009.

Reviews in International Journals:

1. Review of L.L. Pasinetti's `Lectures on the Theory of Production´, Journal of

Economic Studies, 7, #1, 1980.

2. Review of R. Pindyck (ed.), ‘The Production and Pricing of Energy

Resources’, Energy Economics, 2, #4, 1980.

3. Review of G. Gandolfo's ‘Qualitative Analysis and Econometric Estimation

of Continous Time Dynamic Models’, Economic Journal, 92, 1982.

4. Review of J.-P. Fitoussi and E.S. Phelps, ‘The Slump in Europe’, in

Zeischrift für Nationalökonomie, 1990.

5. Review of R.M. Goodwin's ‘Chaotic Economic Dynamics’, in the Journal

of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 1992.

6. Review of S. Lombardini, ‘Growth and Development’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and

Control, 1997.

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7. Review of I. J. Ahluwalia and I.M.D Little (ed.), ‘India’s Economic Reforms and
Development: Essays for Manmohan Singh’, The Economic Journal, November, 1999.

8. Review of, [Link] (ed.), ‘Roy Geary,1896-1983: Irish Statistician’,

Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2000

9. Review of S.N. Afriat, ‘The Market: Equilibrium, Stability, Mythology’, Zeitschrift für
Nationalökonomie, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp.277-281, 2004.

Contributions in Collected Essays, Festschrifts, etc:

1. "On the Definition and Detection of Structural Change", (with B. Rustem), in:
M. Hoffman (ed.), Stochastic Differential Equations and Optimal Control
Theory, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1980.

2. "Energy Planning", (with Richard Eden), Crown Agents Journal, Feb., 1980.

3. “Multisectoral Models and Joint Production”, (with Lionello F. Punzo), in: Mathematical
Methods in Economics, Chapter 4, pp. 57-92, edited by Frederick Van Der Ploeg; John
Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1984.

4. "On Rationalizing Expectations Using Rank-One Updates of the Kalman Filter"(with B.

Rustem), in H.A. Barker and P.C. Young (eds.), Identification and System Parameter
Estimation - 1985, Pergamon Press, Oxford.

5. "The Knight and His Utility Function", in W. Maihofer (ed.), Noi si Mura,
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1986.

6. "Constructing Objective Functions and the Complexity of the Policy Design

Process", (with B. Rustem), in B. Martos, L.F. Pau and M. Zierman (eds.), Dynamic
Modeling and Control of National Economies, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1986.

7. "Keynes og `Stockholm-Skolen´" (in Danish) SamfundsØkonomen, 4, 1986.

8. "Johan Åkerman", in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), The New Palgrave,
Macmillan, London, 1987.

9. "Gustav Åkerman", in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), The New Palgrave,
Macmillan, London, 1987.

10. "The (Nonlinear) Life and Economic Times of Richard M. Goodwin", in [Link] (ed.),
Nonlinear and Multisectoral Macrodynamics: Essays in Honour of Richard Goodwin,
Macmillan, London, 1989.

11. "Introduction" to Recent Developments in Business Cycle Theory, in Business Cycles:

Theories, Evidence and Analysis,ed. by N. Thygesen, K. Velupillai and S. Zambelli,
Macmillan, London, 1991.

12. "Introduction" to Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and Simulation, ed. by K. Velupillai,

Macmillan, London, 1992.

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13. “Exploring ‘The Original Kalecki Model T’: Simplifications and Generalizations”, in: The
Harcourt Festschrift, ed. by [Link], et. al., Routledge, London, 1997.

14. “Perplexed in the Tangled Roots of the Busy Beaver’s Ways” Forthcoming in: Agent-Based
Economics: Theory, Languages and Experiments edited by Francesco Luna, Alessandro
Perrone and Pietro Terna, Routledge, 2008/9.

15. “Rational Expectations Equilibria: A Recursion Theoretic Tutorial”, in: Macroeconomic

Theory and Economic Policy – Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi, edited by K. Vela
Velupillai, Routledge, London, 2004.

16. “The Consummate Macroeconomist: Jean-Paul Fitoussi”, in: Macroeconomic Theory and
Economic Policy – Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi, edited by K. Vela Velupillai,
Routledge, London, 2004.

17. “Preface and Summary”, to Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy: Essays in
Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Edited by K. Vela Velupillai, Routledge, London, April,
2004.

18. “Introduction and Summary”, to the Metroeconomica Special Issue on Computability,

Constructivity and Complexity in Economics, Metroeconomica, Vol. 55, Issue 2-3, pp. 115-
20, May, 2004

19. “A Primer on the Tools and Concepts of Computable Economics”, in: Computability,
Complexity and Constructivity in Economic Analysis, (ed. by K. Vela Velupillai),
Blackwell’s Publishers, Oxford (March, 2005)

Contributions to Conferences and Symposia, etc:

1. "A New Approach to the Bargaining Problem", (with B. Rustem), Presented at the CIME
Conference held in Udine, Italy, March, 1978; published in M. Aoki
and A. Marzollo (eds.), New Trends in Dynamic System Theory and
Economics, Academic Press, London, 1979.

2. "Growth Cycles in Distributive Shares, Output and Employment", (with J.-[Link]),

Invited presentation at the Conference on Macrodynamics, held at O.F.C.E, Paris, France,
September, 1983; published in J-P. Fitoussi and P.A. Nuet (eds.), MacroDynamique et
Disequilibres, Economica, Paris,1987.

3. Comments on: "Un modele post-Keynesian de Development", by P.-A. Nuet and R. Topol,
given at the Conference on Macrodynamics, held at O.F.C.E, Paris, France, September,
1983; published in J-P. Fitoussi and P.-A. Nuet (eds.), Macro-Dynamique et Disequilibres,
Economica, Paris, 1987.

4. "What Have We Learned in the Path from Gödel and Turing to Artificial Intelligence",
Invited Lecture at the Symposium on Knowledge and Organization held in Karlstad,
Sweden, June, 1987; published in Åke E. Andersson, D. Batten and C. Karlsson (eds.),
Knowledge and Industrial Organization, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1989.

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5. "Hammond's `Consequentialists´and Harsanyi´s `New Solutions´", presented at the I.C.O.S.
Conference, Milano, January, 1985. [I understand this was published in an Italian
Translation of the Proceedings of the above conference, edited by Lorenzo Sacconi, in 1987;
however, I have neither been informed about it nor have ever received a copy of the alleged
publication].

6. "Recursive Parameter Estimation Using the Kalman Filter - An Application to Analyse

Time-Varying Parameters and Structural Change", (with B. Rustem and J.H. Westcott),
presented at the European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Helsinki, August, 1976.
Discussion Paper #11; Department of Computing and Control, Imperial College of Science
and Technology,1976.

7. "On Detecting Time Varying Structures", (with B. Rustem), presented at the NBER
Conference, Austin, Texas, May 1978. LSE Econometrics Discussion Paper A9, January,
1979.

8. "Constructing Objective Functions for Macroeconomic Decision Models: A Formalization

of Ragnar Frisch's Approach", (with B. Rustem), presented at the 5th World Congress of the
Econometric Society, MIT, Boston, 1985; Revised, June 1988. Discussion Paper #69,
Programme of Research Into Optimal Policy Evaluation, Imperial College of Science and
Technology.

9. "Gunnar Myrdal - The Universal Social Scientist (1898-1987)", presented at the Colloque
Myrdal, Montreal, Jan., 1989; in: G. Dostaler et. al. [ed.]Gunnar Myrdal et son Oeuvre,
Economica, Paris, 1990.

10. "The Political Arithmetics of the Stockholm School", Invited Presentation at the Conference
to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bertil Ohlin’s EJ Article of 1937, Saltsjöbaden,
Sweden; in L. Jonung (ed.), The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited, Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1991.

11. Comments on: "On Formal Dynamics: From Lundberg to Chaos Analysis", by W.J.
Baumol, Invited Commentator at the Conference to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of
Bertil Ohlin’s EJ Article of 1937, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden; in L. Jonung (ed.), The Stockholm
School of Economics Revisited, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

12. "Contribution to the Panel Discussion on the `Relevance of the Works of the `Stockholm
School´ for Modern Macroeconomics´", Invited Contributor at the Conference to
Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bertil Ohlin’s EJ Article of 1937, Saltsjöbaden,
Sweden; in L. Jonung (ed.), The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited, Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1991.

13. "Theories of the Trade Cycle: Analytical and Conceptual Perspectives and Perplexities",
Plenary Lecture at the International Economics Association Conference on Business Cycles,
held in Ryngsted Kyst, Denmark, June, 1989; in Business Cycles: Theories, Evidence and
Analysis, ed. by N. Thygesen, K. Velupillai and S. Zambelli, Macmillan, London, 1991.

14. "Implicit Nonlinearities in Frisch on `Propagation and Impulse´Mechanisms in the Analysis

of Business Cycles", Invited Presentation at the Conference in Honour of Björn Thalberg,
held in Elsinore, Denmark, June, 1990; published in Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and
Simulation, [ed. by [Link]] Macmillan, London, 1992.

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15. "Björn Thalberg - Teacher, Mentor, Friend", Invited Presentation at the Conference in
Honour of Björn Thalberg, held in Elsinore, Denmark, June, 1990; in Nonlinearities
Disequilibria and Simulation, ed. by K. Velupillai, Macmillan, London, 1992.

16. Comments on Goodwin's "A Chaotic Reformulation of Multiplier-Accelerator Models",

Invited Discussant’s Comments at the Conference in Honour of Björn Thalberg, held in
Elsinore, Denmark, June, 1990; in Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and Simulation, ed. by. K.
Velupillai, Macmillan, London, 1992.

17. Comments on Lance Taylor's "Growth and Adjustment in Developing Countries: A Gap
Model Approach", Invited Discussant’s Comments at the Conference in Honour of Björn
Thalberg, held in Elsinore, Denmark, June, 1990; in Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and
Simulation, ed. by K. Velupillai, Macmillan, London, 1992.

18. "Macroeconomic Perspectives", (with J-P. Fitoussi), Invited Presentation at the Conference
in Honour of Don Patinkin, held in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, September, 1990;
in: Monetary Theory and Thought: The Patinkin Festschrift, ed. by H. Barkai, S. Fischer
and [Link], Macmillan, London, 1993.

19. "Coordinating the Not-Too Rational: Leijonhufvud’s Macroeconomic Methodologies" (with

Lionello Punzo), Invited Presentation at the Conference in Honour of Axel Leijonhufvud,
held at the Central Bank of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, September, 1993; in: the
Leijonhufvud Festschrift, ed. by [Link] and [Link], Macmillan, London, 1996.

20. “Design and Anarchy in Research and Development: The Case of Computer Science”,
Invited Presentation at the 2nd Congress of the Americas, February 27-March 1, 1997 at
UDLA, Puebla, Mexico.

21. “Diophantine Decision Problems in Economics”, Invited Plenary Lecture at the VII
Coloquio Nacional de Economía Matemática y Econometría, UNAM, Mexico City,
Mexico, 6-10 October, 1997.

22. “New Tools for Making Economics an Inductive Science” (Invited presentation at the
Conference in honour of Robert [Link] held in the department of economics at the
University of Trento, May, 1996). In: Money, Markets and Method: Essays in Honour of
Robert [Link], edited by Peter Howitt, Elisabetta de Antoni and Axel Leijonhufvud.,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, April,1999.

23. “Hayek and Pareto on Mechanisms for Decentralization”, Invited presentation at a

Conference on Decentralization held at the University of California at Irvine in February,
1999 and organised by the department of economics at UCI and the Institute of
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.

24. “Undecidable Economic Dynamics” Invited Paper, presented at the Society for
Computational Economics annual conference held in Barcelona, July, 2000.

25. Using Ideas & Producing Ideas in Computable Endogenous Growth, WP #97, Department
of Economics, NUI Galway & DP #16, Department of Economics, University of Trento,
September, 2005; Presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Growth & Development, held
at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India, January 10-12, 2006.

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26. “Computable Foundations for the Mathematics of Experimental Economics: Some
Perplexities”, Presented at the Experimental Economics Workshop on Methodological
Perplexities in Experimental Economics, organized by CEEL, University of Trento &
ALEX, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale, Trento, 29-30, May, 2006.

27. “Are there Computable Foundations for Artificial Economics: the Case of Agent-Based
Economic Models”, Invited Keynote Lecture delivered at the Conference on Artificial
Economics, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 14-15, September, 2006.

28. “The Role of Computational Intelligence in Human Problem Solving: The Herbert Simon
Tradition”, The Herbert Simon Lectures, to be delivered at the National Chengchi
University, Taipei, Taiwan. (in preparation)

Additional Papers:

1. "A Note on the Scientific Contributions of Professor Nocholas Georgescu-

Roegen", (with J-P. Fitoussi), mimeo, Florence, March, 1983.

2. "Economic Systems and Their Regulation", (with Richard Goodwin), EUI

working paper #35, Florence.

3. "Nicky Kaldor - The Lord of Kings", mimeo, Aalborg, October, 1987.

4. "Constructive Foundations for Economics", (with John McCall), mimeo,

UCLA, September, 1989; revised, May, 1991.

5. The Economics of Production-Based Indicators and the Purchasing Power of

Currencies for International Economic Comparison, IECSE, The World Bank,
March, 1994 (with the collaboration of Stefano Zambelli).

6. “Revisiting Jevons’s Principles of Science: Induction Resurrected”, Trento and Galway,

2002.

7. “Buddhism and the Zeitgeist”, Galway & Trento, June, 2005.

8. “From the Foundations of Mathematics to the IT Revolution: In Praise of Fostering Anarchy

in Research”, Galway & Trento, September, 2005.

Obituaries for ‘Broadsheets’

Richard Goodwin, in The Independent, London, 9 August, 1996.

Herbert Simon, in The Independent, London, 13 February, 2001.

Jack Hirshleifer, in The Independent, London, 20 October, 2005.

[The Independent has commissioned me to write two more Obituaries on distinguished living
economists, for their archives.]

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Organising Conferences, Summer Schools, Workshops, etc.

a). Organized invited sessions at the Society for Economic Dynamics,

Western Economic Society, Southern Economic Society meetings and various
IFAC/IFORS sessions, since the early 80s, for many years till the mid 90s.

b). Initiated and helped coordinate the organization of the first `Summer School´ in Computable
Economics in Aalborg, Denmark (August, 1992).

c). Co-organiser (with Niels Thygesen) of an IEA-conference on Business

Cycles in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1989.

d). The main organiser of an international conference in honour of

Björn Thalberg, held in Elsinore, Denmark in 1991.

e). Organised a conference in honour of Axel Leijonhufvud, sponsored by the

Central Bank of Uruguay, in Montevideo, in September 1993.

f). Director and Principal Lecturer (10 Three-hour Lectures), Summer School in Computable
Economics, University of Trento, Italy, September- October, 2000.

g). Principal organizer of a Special Workhop on Computability, Constructivity and Complexity

in Economics, held at the University of Trento, Italy, 6-7, October, 2002.

h). Principal organizer of a Workshop on Computable Economics, held in Galway, Ireland,

March 20-24, 2005.

i). Organized, jointly with Professor Stefano Zambelli, a 2-day Tutorial Workshop on Agent-
Based Modelling in Economics and Finance, May 19-20, 2008, under the auspices of
CIFREM/Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italy [Distinguished Lecturer:
Professor Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Republic of China].

j). Organized, jointly with Professor Stefano Zambelli, a 2-day Tutorial Workshop on
Nonlinear Dynamics in Economic Modelling, March, 13-14, 2009, under the auspices of
CIFREM/Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italy.

j). I have been organizing several ‘mini’ Workshops at NUI Galway and at the University of
Trento during recent years. The topics of the Workshops have been: Computational
Complexity in Economics, Computable Endogenous Growth Theory, Computational
Economic Dynamics, Computable Macroeconomics and Agent-Based Modelling in
Economics and Finance (May, 2008).

k). Over the years, since about 1981, I have been a member of the scientific committee or the
organizing committee of various conferences, symposia, workshops, etc., in Denmark,
Sweden, Italy and England.

Committee Work

Member of various appointment, evaluation and promotion committees at Universities in Denmark,

India, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, and the UK .

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Arne Ryde Lectures

I gave the fourth Arne Ryde Lectures at the University of Lund, Sweden in May 1994. The title of
the series of lectures was: Computable Economics.

Inaugural Lecture

My Inaugural Lecture at Queen’s University was given on 16 January 1995. The title of the lecture
was: Theories of the Trade Cycle: From Pigou to Prescott.

Lectio Magistralis
I gave the annual, invited, Lectio Magistralis at the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, in
October, 2006. The title of the lecture was: Varieties of Mathematics in Economics.

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