Professor Sheila Dow
Emeritus Professor
Background
M.A. (St Andrews), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Glasgow)Economist, Bank of England 1970-72, Economist, then Senior Economist, Department of Finance, Government of Manitoba, 1973-77, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1982-3, Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, 1987, Lecturer at Stirling 1979-88, Reader 1988-96, Professor 1996- (emeritus 2010-)
Research Interests
Economic methodology: open systems; pluralism
History of economic thought: David Hume; Adam Smith; the Scottish Political Economy Tradition; Keynes
Theory of money and banking and monetary policy: structural endogenous money theory; policy-making under uncertainty; banking in transition economies
Regional and international finance: the regional impact of monetary policy
Selected Publications
Dow, S C (forthcoming 2013) ‘Keynes on Knowledge, Expectations and Rationality’, in R Frydman and E S Phelps (eds), Rethinking Expectations: the Way Forward for Macroeconomics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Dow, S (2012) Foundations for New Economic Thinking: a collection of essays. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dow, A and Dow, S (2011) 'Animal Spirits Revisited’, Capitalism and Society 6(2) article 1 - please link to http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol6/iss2/art1/.
Dow, S C (2011) ‘Heterodox Economics: History and Prospects’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 35 (6): 1151-66.
Dow, S C (2011) ‘Cognition, Sentiment and Financial Instability: Psychology in a Minsky Framework’, Cambridge Journal of Economics 35(2): 233-50.
Dow, S C (2009) ‘David Hume and Modern Economics’, Capitalism and Society, 4(1), Article 1
Dow, S C, Klaes, M and Montagnoli, M (2009) ‘Risk and Uncertainty in Central Bank Signals: An Analysis of Monetary Policy Committee Minutes’, Metroeconomica 60(2).
Dow, S C and Ghosh, D (2009) 'Variety of Opinion and the speculative Demand for Money', Journal of Economic Methodology 16 (1): 57-69
Arena, R, Dow, S C and Klaes, M (eds) (2009) Open Economics: Economics in Relation to Other Disciplines, Routledge.
Dow, S C (2008) ‘Plurality in Orthodox and Heterodox Economics’, Journal of Philosophical Economics 1(2): 73-96.
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