ABSTRACT
Eric Lionel Jones is Emeritus Professor of Economics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Professorial Fellow of the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, England. He was born in Andover, England in 1936 and was educated at the University of Nottingham (B.A., 1958) and at Oxford (D.Phil., 1962; M.A., 1964) and earned the higher doctorate from Oxford (D.Litt., 1985). He taught in England at Oxford and at the University of Reading, where he was founding Research Director of the Institute for Agricultural History (1968-70), and visited Purdue in 1965-6. He moved to Northwestern University for the period 1970-5 before he became the Foundation Professor of Economic History at La Trobe in 1975. During his tenure in Melbourne he visited the Northern Hemisphere frequently, at Exeter, at Yale, and as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1985-6). He now lives in Gloucestershire; since going back to England in 2001, he has again taught at Reading and regularly returns to Melbourne to continue his teaching there.
