Harrison Ozanne

Biography

I graduated from Queen Elizabeth College, the University of London, with a degree in Physics and Astronomy in 1975. After abandoning studies for a DPhil in nuclear astrophysics at Oxford, travels in Asia and the Pacific and a period working for ActionAid, a Third World development agency, I obtained an MA degree in Rural Development from the University of East Anglia in 1984. I came to the Victoria University of Manchester in 1985 to study for a PhD in Agricultural Economics, and became a lecturer in 1989 and senior lecturer in 2002.

Further information

Supervision areas:

I have supervised PhD students undertaking PhD research in agricultural production economics, including asymmetric information problems in agri-environmental policy, agricultural development and the adoption of new technology in LDCs, including agricultural traders'' use of brokers in Ethiopia, and poverty and vulnerability in rural China.

Current teaching:

I currently teach a large course on introductory mathematics for first-year undergraduate students and a postgraduate course on agricultural development in less developed countries.

Current Admin:

I am Programme Director of the BA(Econ) degree and am an elected member of Senate.

Specific research interests:

My research in the past has focussed on agricultural production economics, agri-environmental policy and asymmetric information, agricultural development and the adoption of new technology in less developed countries, and the neglect of power in neoclassical economics. 

Current Research Projects:

Following publication of my book on "Power and Neoclassical Economics" in January 2016, I am working on a paper that formalises my approach for modeling power relationships in a general equilibium framework.