AUT - Stefan Kesting

Dr Stefan Kesting

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 - ext 5753

Email: stefan.kesting@aut.ac.nz

Links to relevant web pages:
http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/business/research/research-centres/gd
http://www.nzwalmi.aut.ac.nz/
http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/business/research/research-centres/sustainability-research

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics, University of Bremen
• Diploma (MA) in Economics, University of Bremen

Memberships and Affiliations:

Editorial board of the Review of Social Economy
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
Association for Social Economics (ASE)
New Zealand Work and Labour Market Institute (NZ WaLMI) at AUT
Gender and Diversity Research Group at AUT
Sustainability Research Cluster at AUT

Biography:

Stefan Kesting has previously taught at University of Bremen, Germany and University of Missouri, Kansas City. He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bremen as well as at New School for Social Research, New York City.

Teaching Areas:

Managerial economics and organizations, economics of strategy, sustainability and global business, macroeconomics and global business, institutions, markets and economic policy, global environmental issues for business, institutional economics

Research areas:

Behavioural foundations of microeconomics (focus on gender and sustainability)
(Deliberative) Welfare Economic Theory
Discourse and economics
Institutional, Evolutionary and Social Economics
Innovation (Schumpeterian and Post Keynesian approaches)
Varieties of Capitalism
Ecological macroeconomics

Research Summary:

Most of my research involves the development of alternative interactive micro economic theory, i.e. behavioural concepts differing and supplementing the standard neo-classical models. I pursue this theoretical endeavour based on three key assumptions: Firstly, the idea that a large part of economic activity is based on speech acts; secondly, the thesis that all economic activity is gendered; thirdly, the view that behavioural change will be necessary for achieving an ecological sustainable economy.
My microeconomic reasoning is based on Pragmatist Philosophy, Discourse Ethics and Analysis, and Original American Institutional economic thought as well as on new developments in economic sociology and political economy.
I apply this interdisciplinary approach in a number of projects and policy areas: innovation; analysis of varieties of capitalism; gender productivity and equality in the labour market and at home, green macroeconomics.

Current Research Projects:

Identifying Career Opportunities for Women in Emerging Industries: http://www.mwa.govt.nz/news-and-pubs/publications/indentifying-emerging-industries
Interdisciplinary Economics - Kenneth Boulding's Engagement in the Sciences, book project co-edited with Prof. Wilfred Dolfsma, London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2012
Talk is Dear – The Economic Relevance of Storytelling and Communicative Action, book project co-authored with Prof. Michel Renault, University of Rennes, France
Green stimulus and green jobs
History of Ideas as a method of theory development in economics
Political Aspects of Innovation in the New Zealand and Australian Dairy Industry with Jerry Courvisanos and Phillipa Wells (University of Ballarat) http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/viewabstract.php?id=501306&cf=43
Alternatives to neoclassical microeconomics
Labour and social policy

Publications:

(2011): “What is ‘green’ in the Green New Deal – criteria from Ecofeminist and post-Keynesian Economics, International Journal of Green Economics, Vol. 5 No.1, pp.49-64.
(2010): “Boulding’s Welfare Approach of Communicative Deliberation”, Ecological Economics, Vol. 69 No. 5, pp. 973-977.
(2010): “Ideengeschichte als Methode der Theorieentwicklung – Das Spätwerk von Albert O. Hirschman”, in: Jens, Uwe und Romahn, Hajo (eds.): Methodenpluralismus in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, pp. 303-324.
(2010) co-authored by: Judith Pringle and Jean Lin, “Identifying Emerging Industries”, Report to Ministry of Women’s Affairs, New Zealand, June.
(2009) “John Kenneth Galbraith: A radical economist?” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 179-196.
(2009): “Providing a Theoretical Foundation for Work-Life Balance – Sen’s Capability Approach”, New Zealand Journal of Employment Relation, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 47-61.
(2008) co-author: Scott Fargher, “The Effect of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECE) Costs on Labour Force Participation of Parents in New Zealand”, New Zealand Journal of Employment Relation, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 16-33.
(2008) co-authors: Scott Fargher, Thomas Lange and Gail Pacheco ,”Cultural Heritage and Job Satisfaction in Eastern and Western Europe”, in: International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 29, No. 7, 630-650.
(2008) co-authored by: Klaus Nielsen, “Varieties of Capitalism: Theoretical Critique and Empirical Observations”, in: Elsner, Wolfram and Hanappi, Hardy (eds.): Varieties of Capitalism and New Institutional Deals – Regulation, Welfare and the New Economy, Cheltenham UK and Northampton US: Edward Elgar, pp. 23-52.
(2008): “Communication in the Economy: The Example of Innovation”, in: Davis, John B. and Dolfsma, Wilfred (eds.): Elgar Companion to Social Economics, Cheltenham UK and Northampton US: Edward Elgar, pp. 406-426.
(2008): “Towards a communicative theory of innovation”, in: Genesis of Innovation, edited by Blandine Laperche and Dimitri Uzunides, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, pp. 13-42.