Publications and Conference Papers
‘Microfinance in Burma’ in Goenka, G. and Henley, D. (eds) 2008, From Moneylenders to Microfinance: Southeast Asia’s Credit Revolution, London: Routledge 2008 (forthcoming).
(Review) 'State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization’, Tin Maung Maung Than, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), 2008 (forthcoming).
‘Fiery Dragons: The Chettiars in Burma’, in B. Chaudhuri and S. Chadhuri (eds), IUAES Inter Congress on Mega Urbanization, Multi-Ethnic Society Human Rights and Development, Volume 2: Urbanization and Multi-Ethnic Society, New Delhi: SM Books 2007.
‘Frank Lidgett McDougall’ in J.G. King (ed), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Edward Elgar 2007.
‘Sir Arthur Tange’ in J.G. King (ed), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Edward Elgar 2007.
(Review) ‘Myanmar (Burma) since 1962: The Failure of Development’, Peter John Perry, Asian Studies Review, 2007 (forthcoming).
(Review) ‘Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar’, Helen James, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol.21, no.1, May 2007.
(Review) ‘Burma Today’, review essay of Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Robert Taylor and Tin Maung Maung Than (eds), ‘Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives’; Monique Skidmore (ed), ‘Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century’; Mya Than, Myanmar in ASEAN’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), Spring 2007, vol.163, no.1.
‘The Elastic Margin: Central Bank Theory and Practice in Colonial Burma’, History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 11-13 July 2007.
‘Behind the Teak Curtain: Prospects and Issues of the Burmese Economy’, School of Economics, Australian National University, 10 May 2007.
‘Implications of Recent Economic Developments in Burma for Thailand’, Institute of Asian Studies/Burma Fund closed-door forum, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 19 March 2007.
‘Parching the Land: The Chettiars in Burma’, Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, University of Sydney, 12-14 February 2007.
‘Burma’s Economic Dystopia’, Society of Heterodox Economics, University of New South Wales, 11-12 December 2006.
'Burma's Economy 2006: An Overview', 2006 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 17 July 2006.
'Fiery Dragons: Bankers and Banks in Burma', paper presented to the 2006 Burma Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, 13 July 2006.
'Burma's Economic Prospects', Testimony before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 29 March 2006.
'Banks, Bankers and Burma: Continuing Issues', paper presented to the Asian Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 27 February 2006.
'No checks, no balances: The Long and Sorry History of money and banking in Burma', paper presented to the Southeast Asia Program, Einaudi Centre, Cornell University, 16 February 2006.
'Cooperative Credit in British Burma', in T. Frasch and S. Bhattacharya (eds), Merging the Unsuitable, Harrassowitz, Heidelburg, 2006 (forthcoming).
'Burma's Economy 2004: Crisis Masking Stagnation', in T.Wilson (ed), Burma Update 2004, ISEAS, Singapore, 2005 (forthcoming).
'Burma's Banking Crisis', in P. Warr and Zaw Oo (eds), The Burmese Economic Dilemma, Asia-Pacific Press, 2005 (forthcoming).
'Behind the Teak Curtain: Authoritarianism, Agricultural Policies and Political Legitimacy in Rural Burma/Myanmar', by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol.19, no.2, November 2005.
'A Survey of Microfinance Institutions in Burma' Burma Economic Watch, no.1/2005, October 2005.
'Microfinance in Burma', 'From Moneylenders to Microfinance, Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution in Institutional, Economic and Cultural Perspective, An Interdiscplinary Workshop, National University of Singapore, 7-8 October 2005.
'Failed Hopes: Burma's Financial Sector', Seminar, Asia-Pacific Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 4 October 2005.
'Burma's Economy', Seminar, Australian National University, 10 August 2005.
'Burma's April Fools', The Irrawaddy, Vol.13, No.5, May 2005.
'Finance in Burma: A Case Study in Methodological and Property Rights Failure', Eastern Economic Association, 31st Annual Conference, New York, 4-6 March 2005.
'Suppose there was a Bank Crisis that Nobody Ever Heard of: Burma's Monetary Miasma', Seminar, Queens College, City University of New York, 28 February 2005.
(with G.C. Harcourt) 'Some Reflections on Keynes, Policy and the Second World War', in T. Aspromourgos and J. Lodewijks (eds), Peter Groenewegen Festschrift, Routledge, London, 2004.
'Fiery Dragons? The Chettiars in Burma', International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Conference, University of Calcutta, India, 12-15 December 2004.
'Burma's Economy 2004', Burma Update 2004, Australian National University, Canberra, 18-19 November 2004.
'Cooperative Credit in British Burma', 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 8 July 2004.
'Burma's Banks and their Role in the Country's Humanitarian Crisis', Roundtable Seminar, Modern Asian Research Centre and Geneva Asia Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 June 2004.
'Some Further Developments in Burma's Financial Sector', Burma Economic Watch, no.2 2004, pp.29-35.
'Burma Bank Update', Burma Economic Watch, no.1 2004, pp.19-27.
'Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life', by Tim Rowse, The Journal of Economic History, vol.64, no.1, March 2004, pp.260-262.
'Myanmar's Banking Crisis', Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 12 February 2004 (Seminar by invitation, ISEAS).
'Myanmar's Banking Crisis', ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol.20, No.3, December 2003, pp.272-282.
'50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays', by Geoff Harcourt, The Economic Record, vol.79, no.246, September 2003, pp.388-390.
'Keynes and War', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 15-18 July 2003.
'Burma's Banking Collapse', Myanmar/Burma Update Conference, Research School pf Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 9 July 2003.
'Burma's Economy under SLORC/SPDC', Faculty of Asian Studies Seminar, Australian National University, 11 April 2003 (Seminar and paper by invitation, Faculty of Asian Studies).
'Burma's Banks', Burma Studies Roundtable, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 7 February 2003.
'Reforming the Banking System in Burma: A Survey of the Problems and Possibilities', Technical Advisory Network of Burma, Working Papers, no.7, November 2002.
'Full Employment and Free Trade: An Historical Episode of Australian Intellectual Leadership', History of Economics Review, no.36, Summer 2002.
'Reforming Burma's Banks', Burma Studies Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 21-25 September, 2002.
'Core Labour Standards and the WTO', Economics and Labour Relations Review, vol.13, no.1, June 2002.
'Keynes, Economics and War: A Liberal Dose of Realism', Journal of Conflict and Economics, vol.1, January 2002.
'Australia's "Employment Approach" to International Post-war Reconstruction: Calling the Bluff of Multilateralism', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Tasmania, 11-14 July 2001.
'Free Trade and the WTO', Current Economics, vol.5, no.2, March/April 2000, pp.1-7.
'F.L. McDougall: Éminence Grise of Australian Economic Diplomacy', Australian Economic History Review, vol.40, no.1, March 2000, pp.51-69.
'The WTO, World Trade and Protection', Economics Literacy Centre Economics Conference, St. Joseph's College, 7-8 March 2000.
'Monetary Reformers Abroad: Australian Economists at the Ottawa and World Economic Conferences', History of Economics Review, no.29, Winter 1999, pp.81-96.
'Commonwealth and Cheap Money: Australian Economists at Ottwawa', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, 16-18 July 1997.
'Australian Advocacy of Exapnsionary Economic Policies Internationally: The Nutrition Approach', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Wollongon, 12-14 July 1993.
Macquarie Economics Research Papers
'The Chettiars in Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 2005, no.12/2005.
'Central Banking at the Periphery of the British Empire: Colonial Burma, 1886-1937', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 2005, no.11/2005.
'The Rise and Fall of Cooperative Credit in Colonial Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, June 2005, no.9/2005.
'Keynes, Economics and War: A Liberal Dose of Realism', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 2002, no.7/2002.
'Core Labour Standards and the WTO', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.3/2001.
'Full Employment and Free Trade: An Historical Episode of Australian Intellectual Leadership', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.2/2001.
'The Right to Employment: Extending the Core Labour Standards and Trade Debate', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.1/2001.
'Establishing an East Timorese National Currency via a Currency Board', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, February 2000, no.2/2000.
'A Proposal for a Currency Board in a Democratic Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, August 1999, no.6/1999.
'Eminence Grise: The Political Economy of F.L. McDougall', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 1998, no.13/1998.
'A Clearing Union or a Stabilising Fund? Australian Economists and the Creation of the IMF', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 1998, no.11/1998.
'The Quest for Commodity Price Stability: Australian Economists and "Buffer Stocks"', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, August 1998, no.10/1998.
'Commonwealth and Cheap Money, Australian Economists at Ottawa', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, October 1996, no.9/1996.
'Proto-Keynesian Undercurrents in Australia's External Economic Policy of the Inter-War Years: The Sheltered Markets of F.L. McDougall', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 1996, no.4/1996.
'Butter for Guns: F.L. McDougall, Nutrition and Economic Appeasement', Macquarie Economic Research Papers, November 1995, no.14/1995.
