Prof. Matthias Klaes

Title: Professor of Commerce
Phone: +44 (0)1782 7334279
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Location: Darwin 1.16
Role: Head, Centre for Economics and Management
Contacting me: http://www.doodle.com/klaes
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Matthias Klaes joined Keele in 2005 as Professor of Commerce. Having studied in Germany, France, Holland and Scotland, his background is in engineering, economics, and science studies. He was previously Reader in Economics and Director of the Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology at the University of Stirling, as well as Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. He has been an advisor to private and public sector clients and is a regular speaker at international conferences and workshops.

Current focus on behavioural economics and finance, online credit exchanges, the governance of carbon trading, and Chinese economic reform. Longstanding interest in economic philosophy, and the history and methodology of the economic and management disciplines.

Happy to supervise doctoral students in any of these areas.

For an up to date commented list of key publications, please see my Academic Homepage.

Selected Publications

  • Klaes M, Lightfoot G, Lilley S. 2011. Market masculinities and electronic trading. In Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism. Long S and Sievers B (Eds.). Routledge.
  • Van Horn R and Klaes M. 2011. Chicago neoliberalism versus Cowles planning: perspectives on patents and public goods in Cold War economic thought. J Hist Behav Sci, vol. 47(3), 302-321. link> doi>
  • Klaes M, Campbell D, Bignell C. 2010. After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading. University of Queensland Law Journal, vol. 29(2), 163-190.
  • Klaes M. 2009. Do economists make markets? On the performativity of economics. ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY, vol. 25(3), 389-397. link> doi>
  • Dow S, Klaes M, Montagnoli A. 2009. RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN CENTRAL BANK SIGNALS: AN ANALYSIS OF MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE MINUTES. METROECONOMICA, vol. 60(4), 584-618. link> doi>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Aréna R, Dow S, Klaes M. 2009. Open economics: Economics in Relation to Other Disciplines. Taylor & Francis.

Journal Articles

  • Van Horn R and Klaes M. 2011. Chicago neoliberalism versus Cowles planning: perspectives on patents and public goods in Cold War economic thought. J Hist Behav Sci, vol. 47(3), 302-321. link> doi>
  • Klaes M, Campbell D, Bignell C. 2010. After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading. University of Queensland Law Journal, vol. 29(2), 163-190.
  • Klaes M. 2009. Do economists make markets? On the performativity of economics. ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY, vol. 25(3), 389-397. link> doi>
  • Dow S, Klaes M, Montagnoli A. 2009. RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN CENTRAL BANK SIGNALS: AN ANALYSIS OF MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE MINUTES. METROECONOMICA, vol. 60(4), 584-618. link> doi>
  • KLAES M. 2006. Founding economic concepts. Storia del pensiero economico, vol. 3(1), 23-39.
  • KLAES M and Davis J. 2006. Imprecise precision: Rejoinder to Basboll. Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 13(1), 121-123.
  • KLAES M and Sent EM. 2005. A Conceptual History of the Emergence of Bounded. History of Political Economy, vol. 37(1), 27-59. doi>
  • KLAES M and Campbell D. 2005. The Principle of Institutional direction: Coase's regulatory critique of intervention. Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 29(2), 263-288. doi>
  • KLAES M. 2004. Evolutionary economics: In defence of 'vagueness'. Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 11(3), 359-376. doi>
  • KLAES M. 2004. Algorithmic economics: A plea for natural economic history. Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 11(4), 489-498.
  • KLAES M. 2004. Ontological issues in evolutionary economics. Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 11(2), 121-124.
  • KLAES M and Davis JB. 2003. Reflexivity: curse or cure?. Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 10(3), 329-352. doi>
  • Klaes M. 2002. Confusion and "interstanding": A figured account of hope. HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, vol. 34, 263-271. doi>
  • Klaes M. 2002. Some remarks on the place of psychological and social elements in a theory of custom. American Journal of Economics Sociology, vol. 61(2), 519-530. doi>
  • Klaes M. 2001. Begriffsgeschichte: between the scylla of conceptual and the charybdis of institutional history of economics. Journal of the History of Economc Thought, vol. 23(2), 153-179.
  • Klaes M. 2001. Robert F. Garnett, jr (ed): What do economists know? New economics of knowledge. Economic Journal, vol. 111(5), f508-f510.
  • Klaes M. 2000. The Birth of the Concept of Transaction Costs: Issues and Controversies. Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 9(4), 567-593.
  • Klaes M. 2000. The History of the Concept of Transaction Costs: Neglected Aspects. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 22(2), 191-216.
  • Klaes M, Kinder T, Molina A. 1999. Sociotechnical Alignment in the Rise and Evolution of a Telemedicine Constituency in Scotland. Science and Public Policy, vol. 25(8), 415-435.
  • Klaes M. 1997. Sociotechnical constituencies, game theory, and the diffusion of compact discs. An inter-disciplinary investigation into the market for recorded music. RESEARCH POLICY, vol. 25(8), 1221-1234. link> doi>
  • KLAES M. 1995. NATURAL IMAGES IN ECONOMIC-THOUGHT - MARKETS READ IN TOOTH AND CLAW - MIROWSKI,P. BRIT J HIST SCI, vol. 28(98), 376-377.
  • Klaes M. The Quantitative/Qualitative Divide in the Management Disciplines: Paradigm Wars as Methodenstreit. International Journal of Organization Analysis, vol. 20(1). doi>

Chapters

  • Klaes M, Lightfoot G, Lilley S. 2011. Market masculinities and electronic trading. In Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism. Long S and Sievers B (Eds.). Routledge.
  • Klaes M, Dow S, Montagnoli A. 2009. Variety of Economic Judgment and Monetary Policy-making by Committee. In Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations. Hein E (Ed.). Metropolis-Verlag GmbH.
  • Klaes M. 2008. Rationality and its Bounds: Re-framing Social Framing. In Reasoning, rationality, and probability. Galavotti MC, Scazzieri R, Suppes P (Eds.). Center for the Study of Language and Inf.
  • KLAES M and Campbell D. 2008. Law and social economics: A Coasean perspective. In The Elgar Companion to Social Economics. Davis JB and Dolfsma W (Eds.). Cheltenham: Elgar.
  • Klaes M. 2008. Postmodernism. In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Durlauf S and Blume L (Eds.). (vol. Vol. 6). London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi>
  • Klaes M. 2008. Transaction Costs, History of. In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Durlauf SN and Blume LE (Eds.). (vol. Vol. 8). London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi>
  • KLAES M, Dow S, Montagnoli A. 2007. Monetary policy by signal. In Open Market Operations and the Financial Markets. Mayes DG and Toporowski J (Eds.). London: Routledge.
  • KLAES M. 2006. Keynes between modernism and post modernism. In The Cambridge Companion to Keynes. Backhouse R and Bateman B (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • KLAES M. 2005. Historical economics and evolutionary economic policy- Coasean perspectives. In Economics, Evolution and the State. Dopfer K (Ed.). Cheltenham: Elgar.
  • KLAES M. 2004. Das wirtschaftspolitische programm von Ronald H. Coase. In Studien zur Evolutorischen Okonomik VIII. Dopfer K (Ed.). Berlin: Duncker and Humblot.
  • KLAES M. 2003. Historiography. In A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Samuels WJ, Biddle JE, Davis JB (Eds.). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • KLAES M. 2003. Residual categories and the evolution of economic knowledge. In The evolution of scientific knowledge. Jensen HS, Richter LM, Vendelo MT (Eds.). Cheltenham: Elgar.