Eric Jones (born 21 September 1936) is a British-Australian economist and historian, known for his 1981 book The European Miracle.
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Jones received a doctorate in economic history from the Oxford University.[1] From 1970 to 1975, he was professor of economics at Northwestern University in United States.[1] From 1975 to 1994 he was a professor of economics and economics history at La Trobe University, in Australia.[1] Jones has also had visiting appointments at Yale, Manchester, Princeton, University of Berlin and the Center for Economic Studies at Munich.[1]
As of the early 2000s, he is Emeritus Professor of Economic Systems and Ideas at La Trobe University, and he holds a half-time Professorial Fellow position at the Melbourne Business School of the University of Melbourne in Australia and the part-time Professor of Economics position at the Graduate Center of International Business of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.[1]
Jones has also acted as a consultant for businesses and international organizations such as the World Bank.[1][2]
Eric Jones specialized in economic history, global economics, international affairs and economic systems, particularly in those of the Asian-Pacific region.[2] Eric Jones has been described as a pro-free-trade and anti-statist economist, searching for mechanistic (social, political, economic) reasons to the "rise of the West" (the Great Divergence, the European Miracle) - the phenomenon of the sudden rise of Europe from comparatively backward origins during the early Middle Ages.[1]
Eric Jones is the author of numerous articles and several books.
His most notable work is The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia book (published in 1981), a work which has popularized the term European miracle.[1]
In Growth Recurring (1988) Jones focused on the states system theory as the decisive factor in the development of the West.[1]