Phillip Anthony O'Hara

Phillip Anthony O’Hara has a PhD in political economy, held a personal chair at Curtin University, and is currently Director of the Global Political Economy Research Unit (GPERU) in Perth, Australia. He specializes in studying concepts and principles, major problems of the world, institutional change and adjustment, global political economy, history of the world, and scholarly biography. He has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and edited books, 16 volumes of books and special issues of journals, was President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), and currently is on the editorial or international advisory boards of the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Panoeconomicus, the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, and Terra Economicus. His major books include (among others) Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy: Applied to Current World Problems, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Political Economy, the four-volume International Encyclopedia of Public Policy, plus Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy, as well as Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations. He has won many awards for his research, including Journal Article of the Year, and Book of the Year, from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) and from Curtin Business School, Researcher of the Year from CBS, as well as the Clarence Ayres Award from AFEE.