About Dr Dick Bryan

Dr Dick Bryan’s current research concerns the limitations for national balance of payments categories associated with developments in global financial instruments, and how financial market economists construct particular images of Australia as an economic entity. The latter project is supported by a Large ARC Research Grant.

Dr Dick Bryan joined the Political Economy program in 1984 after a period in the Canberra economic bureaucracy. His primary research interests relate to international capital and financial movements and, within a globally-integrated economic system, the construction of national economic identity. He maintains an on-going interest in Marxian value theory, particularly its application to global economic integration.

Research Interests

  • Australian economic policy
  • Balance of payments
  • Financial markets and the media
  • Globalisation
  • International finance
  • International finance and investment
  • International investment
  • Macroeconomics
  • Marxian Economic Theory
  • Marxist
  • The media

Selected publications

2007

Book Section/s

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2007 'Financial Derivatives: Bubble or anchor?' in Global Finance in the New Century, ed. L Assassi, A Nesvetailova and D. Wigan, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke pp. 25-37.

Journal Article/s

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2007 'Financial Derivatives and the Theory of Money', Economy and Society, vol.36:1.

2006

Book/s

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2006 Capitalism With Derivatives: A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Book Section/s

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2006 'Global is National: The constitution of Contempory Capitalism' in Nationalism and Globalism Solidarities, ed. James Goodman and Paul James, Routledge, London pp. 41-55.

Bryan D and Teicher J 2006 'The Australian State and the Global Economy' in Employee Relations Management: Australia in a Global Context, ed. J. Teicher, P. Holland and R. Gough, Pearson Education, Sydney.

Journal Article/s

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2006 'Can financial Derivatives Inform HRM? Lessons from Moneyball', Human Resource Management, vol.45.

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2006 'Financial Derivatives: The new Gold?' Competition and Change, vol.10, pp. 265-282.

Bryan D and Rafferty M 2006 'Money in Capitalism and Capitalist Money', Historical Materialism: research in Critical Marxist Theory, vol.14:1.

Bryan D 2006 'The Social Calculus of Financial Derivatives ', Southern Review, vol.38.

Bryan D 2006 'Tired and Emotional Finance', Australian Review of Public Affairs.