Professor Jonathan Pincus

Biography/ Background

Jonathan Pincus is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, and an independent economic researcher and consultant.

He was educated in Brisbane, Australia, and at Stanford University, where he took his PhD in 1972 (which won the Columbia-Nevins prize awarded by the American Economic History Association). Jonathan is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and is listed in the international Who’s Who in Economics, 1986 to date.

From 2002 through 2007, Jonathan was Principal Adviser Research at the [Australian] Productivity Commission in both Melbourne and Canberra. At Adelaide University in the 1990s, he was Professor and Head of Economics and Convenor of Academic Board. Previously, Jonathan was Professor and Head of Economic History at Flinders University; Fellow in Economic History at the Australian National University; a researcher at the Center for the Study of Public Choice (Virginia, USA); and Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford. He was a member of the Priorities Review Staff of the Whitlam government. His first job upon leaving high school was with BP Australia for six years.

He has published scholarly works mainly in public choice, fiscal federalism and economic history. With Henry Ergas and Mark Harrison, he recently published an article in Economic Papers, on mining taxes; and he delivered a paper to the Samuel Griffith Society on state taxes and fiscal equalization. His opinion piece on the national broadband network appeared in The Australian on 20 August 2010.

His current research with Perry Shapiro and Zack Grossman proposes a novel auction mechanism for the sale of privately-owned, complementary assets, as an alternative to the exercise of eminent domain by government for contestable public-private partnerships (like toll roads). The mechanism is attractive in terms of efficiency and fairness, and can be used to ‘internalise’ local spill-overs from major developmental and infrastructural projects.  With Professor Graeme Hugo, during 2011 he will be co-editing a volume for CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, on Australia’s population policy.

He is president of the SA Branch of the Economics Society of Australia, and a member of the Policy and Research Council of CEDA.

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Entry last updated: Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011