Lynne Chester
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Chester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Chester |
| SIGNATURE | CHESTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2679-7401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heterodox Economics
This book is part of Agenda Publishing’s Short Histories Series, which aims to provide ‘concise’ topic introductions primarily for undergraduate students. It dovetails with the author’s editorial involvement, since 2013, in eight textbook publications for the UK’s Open University, where he has taught economics for ‘30 or so years.’ Written as a historical narrative for undergraduates with some prior economics knowledge, the book’s content is nota…
Regulatory conflict and a latent public safety risk? The case of gas infrastructure
While the literature on regulatory compliance is extensive, little scholarly attention has focused on how companies respond to conflicting regulatory requirements. As a case in point, gas pipelines and networks—deemed monopolies—are subject to economic regulation to emulate the price pressures of competition and encourage “efficient” expenditure. Technical (safety) regulation of the same infrastructure also addresses an expenditure trade‐off with…
Understanding Social Stratification
The continual restructuring of energy systems, around the world, has generated widespread inequities—manifest as profound inequalities and hardship—across the energy continuum. These inequities include: energy unaffordability; access barriers like price or artefacts to utilise the services provided by energy for work and social practices; ‘sacrifice zones’ for new production sites with health, quality of life, and mortality impacts; and, diminish…
Covid-19, universities, and economics
Government lockdowns and restrictions to arrest the COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread societal and economic disruptions. Also exposed has been the pernicious impact of the past 40 years of neoliberal policies including the transformation of the perceived role of universities from serving the public good, through knowledge creation, to the pursuit of profit and efficiency with consequential impacts on knowledge production and reproduction. This …
The Organization, Operation, and Outcomes of Actually Existing Markets
Public policies have become embedded with market-based mechanisms to radically transform essential goods and services markets. This article proposes a framework for empirical analysis of these markets. Key theoretical propositions are distilled to 12 distinctive properties of markets. These properties foreshadow a set of questions to interrogate a market's structure, operation, participants, behaviors, rules, and price setting to generate a subst…
Beyond market‐fundamentalist economics
Purpose The purpose of this article is to introduce heterodox economics as a viable alternative to market‐fundamentalist economics and to outline the articles of the special issue. Design/methodology/approach This introductory article provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings Market‐fundamentalist economics has failed to adequately explain the economy or to provide guidance to policymakers that lead to w…
A new form of energy poverty is the hallmark of liberalised electricity sectors
The restructuring of electricity sectors has resulted in households paying significantly higher prices. Some European prices rose by more than 100 per cent between 2000 and 2010. NSW households experienced an 80 per cent increase during the period 2007 to 2012. Growing numbers of low‐income and vulnerable households are spending higher proportions of disposable income on energy bills and, we contend, suffer deprivation and social exclusion as a r…
Conceptualising energy security and making explicit its polysemic nature
A new form of energy poverty is the hallmark of liberalised electricity sectors
The restructuring of electricity sectors has resulted in households paying significantly higher prices. Some European prices rose by more than 100 per cent between 2000 and 2010. NSW households experienced an 80 per cent increase during the period 2007 to 2012. Growing numbers of low‐income and vulnerable households are spending higher proportions of disposable income on energy bills and, we contend, suffer deprivation and social exclusion as a r…
Beyond market‐fundamentalist economics
Purpose The purpose of this article is to introduce heterodox economics as a viable alternative to market‐fundamentalist economics and to outline the articles of the special issue. Design/methodology/approach This introductory article provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings Market‐fundamentalist economics has failed to adequately explain the economy or to provide guidance to policymakers that lead to w…
The Organization, Operation, and Outcomes of Actually Existing Markets
Public policies have become embedded with market-based mechanisms to radically transform essential goods and services markets. This article proposes a framework for empirical analysis of these markets. Key theoretical propositions are distilled to 12 distinctive properties of markets. These properties foreshadow a set of questions to interrogate a market's structure, operation, participants, behaviors, rules, and price setting to generate a subst…
Conceptualising energy security and making explicit its polysemic nature
A new form of energy poverty is the hallmark of liberalised electricity sectors
The restructuring of electricity sectors has resulted in households paying significantly higher prices. Some European prices rose by more than 100 per cent between 2000 and 2010. NSW households experienced an 80 per cent increase during the period 2007 to 2012. Growing numbers of low‐income and vulnerable households are spending higher proportions of disposable income on energy bills and, we contend, suffer deprivation and social exclusion as a r…
Beyond market‐fundamentalist economics
Purpose The purpose of this article is to introduce heterodox economics as a viable alternative to market‐fundamentalist economics and to outline the articles of the special issue. Design/methodology/approach This introductory article provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings Market‐fundamentalist economics has failed to adequately explain the economy or to provide guidance to policymakers that lead to w…
The Organization, Operation, and Outcomes of Actually Existing Markets
Public policies have become embedded with market-based mechanisms to radically transform essential goods and services markets. This article proposes a framework for empirical analysis of these markets. Key theoretical propositions are distilled to 12 distinctive properties of markets. These properties foreshadow a set of questions to interrogate a market's structure, operation, participants, behaviors, rules, and price setting to generate a subst…
Covid-19, universities, and economics
Government lockdowns and restrictions to arrest the COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread societal and economic disruptions. Also exposed has been the pernicious impact of the past 40 years of neoliberal policies including the transformation of the perceived role of universities from serving the public good, through knowledge creation, to the pursuit of profit and efficiency with consequential impacts on knowledge production and reproduction. This …
Understanding Social Stratification
The continual restructuring of energy systems, around the world, has generated widespread inequities—manifest as profound inequalities and hardship—across the energy continuum. These inequities include: energy unaffordability; access barriers like price or artefacts to utilise the services provided by energy for work and social practices; ‘sacrifice zones’ for new production sites with health, quality of life, and mortality impacts; and, diminish…
Regulatory conflict and a latent public safety risk? The case of gas infrastructure
While the literature on regulatory compliance is extensive, little scholarly attention has focused on how companies respond to conflicting regulatory requirements. As a case in point, gas pipelines and networks—deemed monopolies—are subject to economic regulation to emulate the price pressures of competition and encourage “efficient” expenditure. Technical (safety) regulation of the same infrastructure also addresses an expenditure trade‐off with…
Heterodox Economics
This book is part of Agenda Publishing’s Short Histories Series, which aims to provide ‘concise’ topic introductions primarily for undergraduate students. It dovetails with the author’s editorial involvement, since 2013, in eight textbook publications for the UK’s Open University, where he has taught economics for ‘30 or so years.’ Written as a historical narrative for undergraduates with some prior economics knowledge, the book’s content is nota…
Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mainstream economics (3 works) · Applied economics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)