Neil de Marchi

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Neil de Marchi is an Australian economist and historian of economic thought. He received a B.Ec. from the University of Western Australia, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a B.Phil. in economics there before returning to Australia to teach at Monash University. His Ph.D. is from the Australian National University. With interruptions (1966-77 at the University of Amsterdam, 1980-83 as a director of research at the ABN Bank in Amsterdam) he has been a Professor of Economics at Duke University since 1971. He writes in the history of economic ideas and in the history and functioning of markets, in particular markets for art. He assists in editing History of Political Economy.

[edit] Major publications

The Popperian Legacy in Economics (edited, with introduction), 1988.
Milton Friedman. Economics in Theory and Practice (with Abraham Hirsch), 1990.
Appraising Economic Theories: Studies in the Methodology of Research Programs (ed. with Mark Blaug), 1991.
Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics (edited, with introduction), 1992.