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School of Economics,
Accelerated Learning Lab, AGSM Bldg
UNSW SYDNEY, NSW 2052
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 9931-9271
Fax: +61 (0)2 9931 9199
Home contact details
E-Mail: r.marks@unsw.edu.au
or bobm@agsm.edu.au or robert.marks@gmail.com
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The AGSM Magazine
The AGSM Magazine was published from 2001 to 2006, until the AGSM was dissolved by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Fred Hilmer.
The early issues of the Magazine were distributed in hard copy, as well as PDF files, but the later issues were only in soft copy.
Unfortunately, when the Frank Lowy Library computers were permanently turned off at the end of 2007, all soft copies of the AGSM Magazine went off-line, and so became unobtainable.
Using the Internet Archive, I have been able to retrieve ten issues from the first four years of publication. Later issues, unfortunately, remain lost.Go to the AGSM Magazine page Here.
A Timeline of the Global Financial Crisis
As a record of what was happening when, I am putting together a timeline of the Global Financial Crisis, updated: here.
Comments or suggestions welcome.
(It will shortly be published in the Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.)Note: Unlike my namesake, I am a firm believer in Darwinian evolution: the evidence is overwhelming.
Research
My recent research has involved the application of economic theory to several social issues which are increasingly important: the use of illicit drugs, the environmental impacts of energy use, and strategic behaviour in markets with small numbers of sellers, using game theory and economics to model learning and adaptive behaviour in oligopolies. As well, I have included a short piece on my recent research accomplishments.
- A recent Curriculum Vitæ.
- My successful case for promotion to full professor discusses my research philosophy and publications, as well as my teaching and service achievements as of 2001. An update of September 11, 2001.
- Some recent publications , including downloads of recent papers.
- Some recent working papers .
- Some research links .
Teaching
A short statement of recent teaching acomplishments.Subject outlines are in Adobe's Portable Document Format. In order to read them you will need the Acrobat Reader and also to have set up your browser so that it recognises the PDF files as requiring Acrobat for viewing and printing.
2011
2010
2009
- Mngt 0306 Strategic Game Theory for Managers, Term 3, 2009
- Mngt 0783 Simulation in the Social Sciences, 2009 (PhD Elective )
- Mngt 5192 Business Ethics, 2009.
2008
- Mngt 5200 Core Economics -- 4 lectures, Term 1, 2008
- Foundations of Management, Term 1, 2008 -- Ethics
- MNGT0306 Strategic Game Theory for Managers, Term 1, 2008
- MNGT5192 Business Ethics, 2008
2007
20062005
- Strat Man 1 -- Business Continuity Planning, 2006
- PhD Elective on Simulation in the Social Sciences, 2006
- IP on Business Ethics, with Damian Grace, 2006
- MNGT5302 Economic Investment Appraisal, 2006
The Fourth Herbert Simon Lectures at the Artificial Intelligence Economics Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, and the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan, October 23-28. Here.
2004
- IP on the Sydney Symphony, with Bob Wood and others, 2005
- IP on Business Ethics, with Damian Grace, 2005
- PhD Elective on Simulation in the Social Sciences, 2005
- Mngt 5200 Core Economics, with Chris Adam, 2004
- IP on the Sydney Symphony, with Bob Wood and others, 2004
- MNGT5302 Economic Investment Appraisal, 2004
- Thinking Strategically, 2004
- PhD Elective on Simulation in the Social Sciences, 2004
- Strat Man 1 -- Rivalry, 2004
- IP on Business Ethics, with Damian Grace, 2004
Earlier Courses
Other Teaching Links
- MFP Strategic and Economic Thinking, 2000
- MNGT0260 Microeconomic Analysis, 1997, 2000
- MNGT0204 Macroeconomics for Managers, 1994
- MNGT0304 Management, Environment, and Resource Markets
- MNGT0564 Systems, Strategy, and Sustainability, 2000
- EST Lecture 5 -- Macroeconomics
- Economics for Competition Lawyers, 1997
- Thinking Strategically -- 2001 Brochure
- Managerial Decision Making -- 2001 Brochure
Managerial Decision Making, 2001
- Some interesting teaching links
- Here is a collection of some unusual thoughts on teaching.
Odds & Ends
- Joan Robinson's 1974 Stanford lectures: over three hours of tapes.
- The Economist's list of some common solecisms.
- Olin Shivers' advice on writing one's dissertation.
- Collected advice on research and writing.
- Some sed and troff scripts I've written.
Sed is the Unix streaming editor, and troff is the Unix text formatter.- Clive James remembers Peter Cook, 1995.
- The late Robert Hughes accepts an honorary doctorate, 1995.
- I remember Douglas Adams.
- A web page devoted to my final year Civil Engineering class at Melbourne University in 1967, and its annual reunion dinner ever since.
- Recordings of singing at Scotch College, Melbourne, 1957-1964.
- Recordings of 24 lectures on W. B. Yeats given by Donald Davie at Stanford in early 1975.
Personal
Zoë
- A photo of Zoë and Josh, April 2012. Here.
- Perhaps prompted by her mother's illness and death, Zoë is a medical student at Monash University in Melbourne, where she enjoys living in a shared house in South Yarra, near pubs and coffee shops and trams and teaching hospitals. Cross-country skiing is a day trip from Melbourne, as is the beach house at Sorrento. She also enjoys travelling further afield.
Josh
- Josh submitted this brief essay to the Goethe-Institut in 2005 as part of his awarding-winning piece (not yet posted).
- Josh won a prize in a University of London essay-writing competition on U.S. policy in 2010 here.
- Josh was commissioned to write a series of pieces in the lead-up to the U.S. November 2012 elections. Here.
My loving wife, Hazel Church, died on September 14, 1998, after a prolonged battle with advanced breast cancer. Here are some commemorative pages in Hazel's memory.
Click here for photos of the family.
After a long bout with Alzheimer's, my mother, Joan Sarah Deakin Marks, died peacefully at 8:20 pm on Sunday, 2nd of March 2003, with her family at her side. The funeral was held four days later. see the web page here.
In 2006 Robert's sixtieth party at the Mountain House here. His sixtieth party at Sorrento here.
In 1962 Robert catalogued the library of his grandfather, Ernest N. Marks. See here for the digitised catalogue of 465 books.
Four years earlier, Robert wrote a school project on the Middle East, here.
Since 6 June, 1996, you are visitor number:Web counter courtesy of
(Exactly ten years after starting counting hits on this page, at 5:56 pm Eastern Australian Time on Tuesday, 6 June 2006, the counter read: 29,162 hits, an average of almost exactly 8 hits per day. A month later, and the marginal rate is 10 per day. From June 1996 to September 2001 the average rate was 4.8 a day.)
Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au
Last amended on 16 September, 2010.
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