Sean Turnell
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Formal Name: Sean Turnell Personal Title: Associate Professor Position: Associate Professor Organisational Unit: Department of Economics Qualifications: BEc Macq. PhD Macq. Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8493 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6069 Email: sean.turnell@mq.edu.au Location: E4A 426 Websites: |
Profile
A former Senior Analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia, Sean Turnell joined the Economics Department in 1991.
His research interests include Burma and its economy, financial sector reform in developing countries, the history of global monetary institutions, and the history of Australian economic thought.
Sean Turnell has published in numerous international journals on these and other topics, including ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Asian Studies Review, Asian Survey, Australian Economic History Review, Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land-en Volkenkunde, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Economic and Political Weekly, the Economic Record, History of Economics Review, and the Journal of Economic History. His work has been cited by media all around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times, Australian Financial Review, The Australian and many others. He has made many appearances in the electronic media, including the BBC, ABC, SBS, Bloomberg Television, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Sky-News and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Sean Turnell’s book examining the history of Burma’s monetary and financial system, Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma has just been published (2009) by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press.
Sean Turnell's Ph.D thesis examined the efforts of Australian economists to reform the architecture of the global economy during the first half of the twentieth century. A copy of the thesis, Monetary Reformers, Amateur Idealists and Keynesian Crusaders: Australian Economists’ International Advocacy, 1925-1950 can be downloaded at: http://businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/business_economics_sydney/EFS_docs/Staff_Documents/sean_turnell/Turnell-S_PhDthesis_1999.pdf
Sean Turnell is a member of the editorial board of the History of Economics Review, Burma Economic Watch and the Macquarie Economics Research Papers. He is a member of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, the Economic Society of Australia, the American Economic Association and the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Much of Sean Turnell's work has been concerned with economic reform in a post-democratic Burma. With Alison Vicary and Wylie Bradford, in 2001 he established Burma Economic Watch, an on-line resource of information and commentary on Burma's economy. Burma Economic Watch can be found at http://www.econ.mq.edu.au/burma_economic_watch
Sean Turnell was a Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge in 2000, and a Visiting Fellow to the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, in 2006, and to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in 2008.
In March 2006, Sean Turnell was invited to testify on Burma’s to the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs. This testimony is available at http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2006/hrg060329p.html
Committee/Board Membership
Sean is a member of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, the Economic Society of Australia, and the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Editorial Boards
Sean currently serves on the editorial boards of Burma Economic Watch, the History of Economics Review and the Macquarie Economics Research Papers.
Referee
Sean has acted as a referee for The Cambridge Journal of Economics, the History of Economics Review, the Economic Record and the Australian Journal of Politics and History.