Morris Altman

A former visiting scholar at Cornell, Duke, Hebrew, and Stanford Universities, Morris Altman is currently Dean and Chair Professor of Behavioural & Institutional Economics, & Co-operatives at the University of Dundee School of Business (UK), from 2019. He was Dean and Professor of the Newcastle Business School in Australia. Morris was also Head of the School of Economics and Finance at Victoria University of Wellington from 2009 to 2015 as well as Professor of Behavioural and Institutional Economics. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Saskatchewan where was Head from 1994 to 2009. He was Elected Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, a Visiting Scholar, Stirling University in Scotland, and an Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, before his move to New Zealand.

Morris Altman was elected as President of the Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) from 2003 to 2006. He’s been an active member of SABE since its re-birth in 1992 and has served SABE in many different roles over the past 24 years. He has also been active in the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology. For many years he’s served on their international conference scientific committee. Recently, he organized the joint SABE-IAREP meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is founding President of the New Zealand Association for the Study of Cooperative and Mutuals. He is also past President of the Association for Social Economics and remains active in the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Morris is founding co-editor (with Barkely Rosser Jr) of the Review of Behavioral Economics (NOW). He is also the founding Editor of the new Elsevier book series, Perspectives on Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Behavior. He was Editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics (Elsevier Science) for about 10 years and former Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology where he remains on the Editorial Board.

Morris has published over 100 refereed papers on behavioral economics, economic history, methodology, and empirical macroeconomics and 17 books in economic theory, applied economics, economic history, co-operatives, ethics and public policy and has made over 200 international presentations on these subjects. He has recently edited Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, comprised of original contributions to the field. It has been through multiple printings. He is currently completing three books on related subjects and is researching endogenous technical change, cooperative organization, entrepreneurship, the linkages between economic justice (human rights), power and economic growth and development, altruism, ethics, true preferences and reciprocity in economic theory. He is also conducting a major international project in experimental economics examining the role of prices, incomes, and social variables in determining consumer demand. In another experiment, he examines wage determination from the perspective of employer and employee and role played by power in its determination.