Nicholas Weaver

Additional Information

Current teaching:

Nick teaches the following units

• ECON10002 An Introduction to Development Studies
• ECON20321 Development Economics: Growth, Capital Accumulation and Structural Change
• ECON73000 MA Economics Dissertation

Nick joined the Department of Economics as a student on the Postgradute Diploma in Economic Development in 1988 and he hasn't left yet. He now lectures first year developmentand studying economics and second year development economics and looks after the MA Econ. Applied Economics projects. In the past he has lectured and tutored on many courses including: first and second-year macroeconomics and microeconomics, first-year mathematics and statistics, first-year computing, second year industrial economics and development economics, third year business economics, global economy and the third world and international trade, and postgraduate courses in econometrics, industrialisation and development, TNCs, technology and development, international trade and capital flows and macroeconomics for development.

He has provided research support on many projects but his publications are very very limited. They include an introductory chapter jointly written with Mike Artis in the book: The Economics of the European Union, OUP (which has now run to 3 editions), a jointly written discussion paper (with Nicola De Liso) called Dynamic Economics, Endogenous Growth and Technical Progress: Adam Smith's Relevance for the Contemporary Debate (published in the IDSE series of CNR Milan) and an article based on that discussion paper De Liso N., Filatrella G. and Weaver N. (2001), On endogenous growth and increasing returns: modeling learning-by-doing and the division of labor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 46, Sept.

Profile:

• ex MA Econ Prog. Director
• ex Director of the Development Studies Stream BA Econ;
• ex SoSS TA Co-ordinator
• ex Senior Programme Tutor on the BA Econ
• BA Development Studies, UEA MA Development Economics, Manc.. 

Specific research interests:

Nick's interests are wide ranging (or lack focus). He is interested in applied development economics, political economy, statistics and data analysis and the teaching of development studies, economics and statistics and is currently "thinking about" researching into whether some of the classics of development offer any insights for those studying technical change.