Christopher Lloyd

Professor Christopher Lloyd is an economic historian and political economist. He was educated in the Universities of New England in Australia and Sussex and Oxford in England. Most of his career has been spent in the Departments of Economic History and Economics at University of New England with periods spent as visiting professor at ANU, Duke, UC Davis, Zaragoza, Helsinki, Exeter, and MPI Jena. From 2007-2013 he was a visiting professor in the Nordic Centre of Excellence on the Welfare State (Nordwel) based in Helsinki and is now a Guest Professor at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in History at Tampere and Jyväskylä Universities. Professor Lloyd has published extensively in the following areas:

* the historical political economy of Australia, particularly regimes of regulation and the issues of resource-curse development, the role of the developmental state, and pension regulation;

* the history of Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism on a world-wide scale of the past century or more;

* the comparative world-wide history of settler capitalist economies (including Australia);

* indigenous participation and hybridity in the history of the Australian economy;

* long-run interactions of geopolitics, economies, and environments;

* socio-economic evolution theory;

* the philosophy and methodology of social science history.

He has published six books and numerous articles and chapters. une.edu.au/staff/alloyd.php