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Craig Freedman


Formal Name: Craig Freedman

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Associate Professor

Organisational Unit: Department of Economics

Qualifications: BA St. John's Md., MBA Calif., MA Mass, PhD Mass

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-7444

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8586

Email: cfreedma@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 424

Profile

Craig is the Director of the Centre for Japanese Economic Studies. The Centre, established in 1991 by the late Professor Victor Argy with the assistance of a generous donation from Nomura Securities, Tokyo, is an independent research unit located within the Faculty of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University.

The Centre encourages research and study of the Japanese economy. To this end it promotes scholarly exchange and analysis, public events and course offerings.

Dr Freedman has presented testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee which was investigating the affect on Australia of recent changes in the Japanese economy. This was the first such Parliamentary investigation since 1981.

Committee/Board Membership

Board Member Macquarie University Japanese Studies Centre

Student Supervision

Alison Vicary (PhD Candidate) "Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand"

Research

Research Specialties

  • Industry policy and inflation policy
  • The Japanese economy
  • History of economic thought
  • Contract theory
  • Economics of Child Care

Research Grants and Projects

  • 2000 Macquarie University Offshore Project Fund - Grant to organise conference - Can Japan Change - Economic Reform in Japan
  • 2000 Macquarie University Offshore Project Fund - Grant to arrange overseas program with Asia Pacific University (Ritsumiekan University), Japan
  • 1999 Australian Research Council Small Grants Scheme B Estimating the Horizontal Phillips Curve B The Limits to Modern Monetary Policy
  • 1998 Macquarie University Research Grant - Research on George Stigler
  • 1997 Australian Research Council Small Grants Scheme - Research on George Stigler
  • 1993 University (UNSW) Foundation Research Grant - in recognition of significant contribution to faculty research program.
  • 1989 University (UNSW) Foundation Research Grant- in recognition of significant contribution to faculty research program.

Publications

Books

  • Freedman, C. and Szostak, R. (eds.) (2003) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing.
  • Freedman, C. (ed.) (2001) Economic Reform in Japan: Can the Japanese Change?, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.
  • Freedman, C. (ed.) (2000) Japanese Economic Policy Reconsidered, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.
  • Freedman, C. (ed.) (1999) Why did Japan Stumble?- Causes and Cures, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

  • 2007 "Japan", in Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam (eds.) Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies. Celtenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-41.
  • 2007 "If Corporate Governance is the Answer, What is the Question? The Illusory Relation between Structural Solutions and Japanese Deflation", Economics and Labour Relations Review 17(2): 25-35.
  • 2004 with Geoffrey Harcourt and Peter Kriesler, "Has the Long Run Phillips Curve Turned Horizontal?" in George Argyrous, Gary Mongiovi and Mat Forstater (eds.) Growth, Distribution, and Effective Demand: Essays in Honour of Edward Nell. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp.144-162.
  • 2004 with Alexander Blair, "Are Japanese Multinationals Different? Technology Transfer in the Asian Region", in René Haak and Dennis Tachiki (eds.) Regional Strategies in a Global Economy: Multinational Corporations in East Asia. Frankfurt: Luducium, pp.141-166.
  • 2003 "George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor". The Journal of Economic Education, 34(3): 282-291.
  • 2003 "The Narcissistic Science" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.3-14.
  • 2003 "Economic Nostrums and Economic Practices - Accountability in Economic Journals" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.131-158.
  • 2003 "Economic Textbooks - Missing and Misplaced Incentives" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.159-172.
  • 2003 "Why Economists Can't Read" (Reprinted) in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp. 105-122.
  • 2002 The Xistence of Definitional Economics: Stigler's and Leibenstein's War of the Words, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(2):161-179.
  • 2002 "The Collapse of the Low Risk, Middle Class Society". The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 13(2): 288-325.
  • 2001 "When Change is not Reform - Transforming the Japanese Economy". in Craig Freedman (ed.), Can the Japanese Change? - Economic Reform in Japan. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-19.
  • 2001 "When Truth is Not Beauty, Nor Beauty Truth",A Review Article of Rick Szostak, "Econ Art - Divorcing Art from Science in Modern Economics", History of Economics Review 33(Winter): 96-101.
  • 2000 "Do Economic Journals Obey Economic Prescriptions?", The Review of Industrial Organization 17(4): 371-384.

Macquarie Economics Research Papers

  • May 2004 "Power without Glory – George Stigler's Market Leviathan"
  • Sep 2001 "Do Great Economists Make Great Teachers? – George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor"
  • Oct 1998 "Choosing the Right Textbook – An Agency Problem"
  • Oct 1998 "The Xistence of Definitional Economics: Stigler's and Leibenstein's War of the Words"
  • Jul 1997 "The Invisible Mr.Keynes - Empirical versus Theoretical Arguments"
  • Nov 1996 "Do Economic Journals Obey Economic Prescriptions?  The Case of Academic Referees"
  • Aug 1996 "Countervailing Egos - Stigler versus Galbraith"
  • Dec 1995 "No end to Means - George Stigler's profit motive"

Centre for Japanese Economic Studies Research Papers

  • April 2006 (with Luke Nottage), "You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: The Chicago School of Law and Economics Comes to Japan"
  • February 2006, "Post-war Japan"
  • January 2006, "Free Trade or Free Trade Agreements?"
  • September 2003 (with Alex Blair), "Flawed Assumptions - Japanese Corporate Governance and its Relation to Macroeconomic Policy"
  • August 2000, "The Collapse of the Riskless, Middle-class Economy"
  • November 1998, "The Influence of Culture on Corporate Structure"
  • October 1998, "Arigato-An Economic History of the Japanese Import Invasion into the US"