MAX STEUER

Economist

Social Scientist

Max Steuer was born in New York City and educated at Bowdoin College, Maine, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics where he has been on the staff since 1959. Amongst his many interests Max is a hot air balloonist with World Records for Altitude, Distance and Duration 1984. He is also a keen musician and plays bass guitar with the Irving Street Band and the Irving Street Sextet, and produced and wrote the script for the feature film "The Committee".

He is currently Reader Emeritus in the Economics Department, London School of Economics;
Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics;
Programme Associate, Cities Programme, London School of Economics;
Part-time lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics.

Other appointments have included:

Economist, National Economic Development Office, 1962-1964.
Econometric Assistant, Economic Research Group, Board of Trade, 1964-1967.
Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Spring Term, 1969.
Professor of Economics and Head of Department, University of Ghana, 1971-1974.
Dean of the Graduate School, London School of Economics, 1994-1998.
Various outside posts:
Acting Editor, Bankers’ Magazine; lecturing at the Treasury Administrative Centre;
Board of Trade Committee on Export Forecasting;
lecturing at the British Council;
Consulting work for international organisations and for industry.

Publications

Latest Publication

The Scientific Study of Society, Kluwer 2003.

(with R.G. Lipsey) "The Relation Between Profits and Wage Rates", Economica, May, 1961.

"A Note on Kleiman on Comparative Advantage", Economica, August, 1961.

"Economic Policy and Union Activity" in B.C.Roberts, (ed.) Industrial Relations: Contemporary Problems and Perspectives, 1962.

(with M.D. Godfrey) "Skill Categories and the Allocation of Labour", British Journal of Industrial Relations, June, 1963.

(with P. Saunders) "An Elementary Exposition of the Policy Problem of Maintaining Internal and External Balance", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, June 1964.

(with C. Voivodas) "Import Substitution and Chenery’s Patterns of Industrial Growth ( A Further Study", Economia Internazionale, February 1965.

"Organizzazione e Indirizzo della Programmazione Britannica", in G. Fua (ed.) Programmazione Economia, 1965.

(with G. Erb) "An Empirical Test of the GATT Hypothesis", Journal of Political Economy, June 1966.

(with R.J. Ball and J.R. Eaton) "The Relation Between United Kingdom Export Performance and the Internal Pressure of Demand", Economic Journal, September 1966.

(with R.J. Ball and J.R. Eaton) "The Effect of Waiting Times on Foreign Orders for Machine Tools", Economica, November 1966.

(with A.P. Budd) "Price and Output Decisions of Firms ( A Critique of E.S. Mills’ Theory", Manchester School, March 1968

"Economic Explanations of War", Insight, Summer 1968.

(with Janet Holland) Mathematical Sociology, A Selective Annotated Bibliography, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969

"Why Art Matters to Social Science", Clare Market Review, 1969.

American Capital and Free Trade: Effects of Integration, Atlantic Trade Study, October 1969.

(with John Dunning) "The Effects of United States Direct Investment on British Technology", Moorgate and Wall Street, Autumn, 1969.

(with J. Gennard) "Industrial Relations, Labour Disputes and Labour Utilization in Foreign Owned firms in the UK", in J.H. Dunning (ed.) The Multinational Enterprise, 1971.

(Steuer et al) The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1973.

After the C After the Crisis - Longer-Term Prospects for the Economy Of Ghana, Ghana Universities Press, 1973.

"Culture and Optimality", STICERD, Theoretical Economics, TE/89/206, 1989.

"Miracles and Alien Abduction", CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 38/99, March 1999.

"Timing-of-payment conventions for consumer purchases", Chapter 9 of Regulation Strategies and Economic Policies, Ed. by Daniel, Sami; Arestis, Philip, and Grahl, John, Edward Edgar, 1999, pp. 144-150.

"Perceptions of a City Street: Drury Lane in London", City Policy Architecture and Engineering Discussion Paper Series, DP 1/99, November 1999.

"A Hundred Years of Town Planning and the Influence of Ebenezer Howard", British Journal of Sociology, June 2000.

The Scientific Study of Society, Kluwer 2003.

"Science in another Way?", CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 69/03, November 2003.

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