Rate My Professor Tony Aspromourgos

Tony Aspromourgos is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. He earned a BEc from the University of Queensland, an MCom from the University of Melbourne, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), Aspromourgos lectured at the University of Sydney from 1985 until his retirement in 2019. His primary research interests encompass the history of economic thought, classical political economy—with particular focus on Adam Smith, William Petty, and related figures—Keynesian economics, supply and demand analysis, public debt, income distribution, technical progress, and unorthodox economic approaches including Sraffian theory.

Aspromourgos has published extensively in premier international journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and History of Political Economy. His major books include On the Origins of Classical Economics: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith (Routledge, 1996), The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy (Routledge, 2009), and Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Synthesis (Routledge, 2024). Other significant works feature 'On the origins of the term ‘neoclassical’’ (History of Political Economy, 1986), 'The managerialist university: an economic interpretation' (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2012), 'Keynes, public debt, and the complex of interest rates' (History of Political Economy, 2018), and 'What Is Supply-and-Demand? The Marshallian Cross Versus Classical Economics' (History of Political Economy, 2018). He formerly served as Editor of the History of Economics Review. Aspromourgos delivered the Adam Smith Tercentenary Lecture at the University of Sydney in 2023, contributing to global celebrations of Adam Smith's legacy. His scholarship, cited over 2,100 times on Google Scholar, has profoundly shaped understandings of classical and Keynesian economic theories and their historical development.