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Job Title

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Qualifications

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

Areas of Research Expertise

• Microeconomics
• Institutional, Feminist, Ecological and Welfare Economics
• Socio-economic Theory

Biography

Dr Stefan Kesting is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. He arrived at AUT in January 2004 and has previously taught at the University of Bremen, Germany. In 2002 Dr Kesting received a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and a Fulbright scholarship to do research and teach one semester at Roskilde University, Denmark and one semester at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bremen as well as at the New School for Social Research, New York City. He holds a Diploma (MA) and a PhD in economics from the University of Bremen.

Stefan Kesting’s main research interests are the interactive and linguistic turn in economic theory, ecological sustainability, gender, feminist, social and institutional economics. He taught primarily in these areas, but has also gained experience in first year microeconomics, economics of strategy and economics of globalisation.

Stefan is also a member of the Centre of Work and Labour Market Studies and the Gender and Diversity Research Group.

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Microeconomics
• Economic strategy
• Ecological Economics
• Institutional and Socio-economic approaches
• Feminist Economics
• Managerial Economics & Organisation
• Economics of Firm and Consumers' Behaviour

Interests in Research Supervision

• Institutional and Socio-economics
• Country comparisons of economic and social policy
• Ecological Sustainability
• Economic aspects of gender inequality

Current Research

• The Competitive Advantage of Sustainable Development in New Zealand
• Varieties of Capitalism – a comparison of Britain, Denmark, Germany and New Zealand
• “Knowledge-capital” and innovation in firms: the question of Competition, Cooperation and Control
• Productivity & Gender Equality in New Zealand's Labour Market
• Investment into the well-being of children: human capital and capabilities approaches

Selected Publications

1. (Forthcoming) Fargher, S., Kesting, S., Lange, T. and Pacheco, G. "Cultural Heritage and Job Satisfaction in Eastern and Western Europe", International Journal of Manpower.
2. (2008), “Communication in the Economy - The Example of Innovation“, in John B. Davies et al. (eds) The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, Cheltenham UK and Northampton US: Edward Elgar, 406-426.
3. (2008), 'Towards a communicative theory of innovation, in Laperche, Blandine, Uzunidis, Dimitri and von Tunzelmann G. N. (eds.). The Genesis of Innovation - Systemic Linkages Between Knowledge and the Market, Cheltenham UK and Northampton US: Edward Elgar, 16-61.
4. (2007), "Mental Models as Language-Transmitted Means of Power", in: Klaus Nielsen and Carsten A. Koch (ed): Institutionalism in Economics and Sociology – Variety, Dialogue and Future Challenges, Cheltenham UK and Northampton US: Edward Elgar.
5. (2007) “Comunicative Transaction Benefits“, in Rick Redvers Garside (ed), Institutions and Market Economies (pp. 322-337), Palgrave MacMillan.
6. (2005) "Countervailing, Conditioned and Contingent – the Power theory of John Kenneth Galbraith", in: Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, vol.28, No. 1, pp. 3-23.
7. (2005) “Care and capabilities: enriching the human capital concept“, in: Australasian Journal of Human Security, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 43-57.
8. (2004) Kesting, Stefan; Knobloch, Ulrike and Jochimsen, Maren (eds), Lebensweltökonomik – eine Festschrift für Adelheid Biesecker, Bielefeld: Kleine Verlag (live world economics, a collection of articles)
9. (2003) with Klaus Nielsen, "Small is Resilient – the Impact of Globalization on Denmark", Review of Social Economy, LXI/3, 365-387
10. (2003) with Adelheid Biesecker, Mikroökonomik, (microeconomics textbook in German), München: Oldenbourg.

Contact

Email: stefan.kesting@aut.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 - ext 5753
Fax: +64 9 921 9990