Areas of expertise

• Role of the state in the economy
• Technological and social change
• Labor market policy and the welfare system
• Working time and work-life balance
• The use and abuse of statistics in decision-making

Profile

Dr Argyrous is a Senior Lecturer at ANZSOG on secondment from the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he has taught political economy, research methods and statistics since 1992, publishing many articles on the use and abuse of research. He is also the author of the popular international text, Statistics for research, which is now in its third edition and has been translated into Chinese, and the editor of Evidence for policy and decision-making: a practical guide, published this year by UNSW Press.

Dr Argyrous has also acted as a consultant to many private and public sector organisations, including the Australian Broadcasting Authority, Optus, the City of Sydney, and the New South Wales Department of Education, on a range of research projects, as well as providing training in research methods to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In January 2011, Dr Argyrous joined the ANZSOG academic faculty as ANZSOG Senior Lecturer in Evidence-Based Decision-Making.


Programs

Dr Argyrous currently teaches in the following ANZSOG courses:

Executive education

• Evaluation for Public Sector Managers (course co-leader)
• Evidence for Policy and Decision-Making (course leader)
• Policy Design and Delivery: Influencing Public Behaviour

Recent publications

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles


Books

• Argyrous, G 2011, Statistics for research: with a guide to SPSS, 3rd ed., Sage, London.
• Argyrous, G & Stilwell, F 2011 (eds.), Economics as a social science: readings in political economy, Tilde University Press, Annandale NSW.
• Argyrous, G 2009 (eds), Evidence for policy and decision-making, UNSW Press, Sydney
• Argyrous, G, Forstater, M & Mongiovi, G 2004 (eds.), Growth, distribution and effective demand: alternatives to economic orthodoxy, M E Sharpe, Armonk NY.

Book chapters

• Argyrous, G & Bamberry, G 2009, ‘Cumulative causation and industrial development: the regional stage’ in S Berger, The foundations of non-equilibrium economics: the principle of circular and cumulative causation, Routledge, New York.
• Argyrous, G 2007, ‘Statistical methods for health data analysis’ in M Saks & J Allsop (eds.), Researching health, Sage, London.
• Argyrous, G & Neal, M 2004, 'Disabled workers or disabled labor markets' in G Argyrous, M Forstater & G Mongiovi (eds.), Growth, distribution and effective demand, M E Sharpe, Armonk NY.
• Argyrous, G 2002, 'Endogenous demand in the theory of transformational growth' in M Setterfield (ed.), The economics of demand-led growth, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Journal articles

• Argyrous, G 2008, ‘Alternative approaches to teaching introductory economics courses in Australian universities’, Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 4, no. 1–2.
• Argyrous, G 2007, ‘Taking the ‘con’ out of Econtech: a review of the effects of industrial relations reform since 1993’, Heterodox Economic Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, December, pp. 1–8.
• Argyrous, G & Neal, M 2003, 'The disability support program and unemployment: confronting the "disabled" labour market', Journal of Australian Political Economy (June).
• Argyrous, G 2002, 'Social security as a shell game', Human Rights Defender, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 3–8.
• Argyrous, G, Cusi, M, Juska-Butel, C & Garlick, D 2001, 'Lumbopelvic stability and injury profile in Rugby Union players', New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 14–18.
• Argyrous, G & Neal, M 2001, 'Labor market disability: implications for the unemployment rate', Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 263–284.
• Argyrous, G 2001, 'Setterfield on cumulative causation and interrelatedness: a comment', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 103–106.
• Argyrous, G 2000, 'The high road and the low road to international trade: emerging exporters revisited', Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 45, pp. 46–67.
• Argyrous, G 2000, 'A reply to Guttman', Journal of Economic and Social Policy, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 94–96.