Rate My Professor Riko Stevens

Riko Stevens is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus, part of the School of Law and Business. He concurrently holds an Adjunct Research Fellow position at the University of Western Australia’s Business School. Stevens earned his PhD in Economics from UWA in 2022, with a thesis titled “The Theory of Speculation in the Marshallian Tradition: Marshall, Pigou, Lavington, and Keynes on the Microeconomics of Speculation,” which was awarded the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in 2022. Prior to this, he completed a Master of Commerce with First Class Honours in Economics at the University of Auckland in 2017, focusing on “The Theory of Speculation in the History of Economic Thought: The Contributions of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Alfred Marshall Revisited,” earning the 2017 HETSA Prize for Best Masters Thesis. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Finance from Auckland in 2015. Stevens received scholarships including the Australian Government Research Training Program PhD Scholarship and Kelliher Charitable Trust scholarships for masters and honours studies.