Prof. Arie Arnon

Professor Arie Arnon heads the newly created "Program on Economics and Society" at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and has taught since 1983 at the Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University. His areas of research include macroeconomics, monetary theory, the Israeli labor market and the history of economic thought. A major focus in recent years has been the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Arnon was a visiting scholar and teacher at Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, The New School University and SOAS. He was a Senior Economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Israel from 1989 to 1997, and Chair of the Department of Economics at BGU from 1999 to 2001. He was a member of the "Committee on Economic Affairs Concerning the Negotiations with the Palestinians" (the Ben-Shahar Committee) in 1993, a consultant to the World Bank in 1996, and a member of the "Committee on Minimum Wages" in 2000.

He was on the editorial board of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought from 1993 to 2003 and has been on the editorial boards of The Economic Quarterly (Hebrew) and Social Security, Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies (Hebrew) since 2003.

Since 2002, Arnon has been the coordinator of the Israeli team of the Aix Group, where experts from the Palestinian Authority, Israel and the international community discuss various economic aspects of the current situation.

From 1998-2004, he was the founder and co-chair of an Israeli NGO entitled "Commitment to Peace and Social Justice", which focused on unemployment in Israel.

Selected Publications

• Arnon published a monograph Thomas Tooke: A Pioneer of Monetary Theory (Michigan University Press, 1991);

• The Palestinian Economy: Between Imposed Integration and Voluntary Separation (Brill, 1997) co-authored with Luski, Spivak and Weinblatt;

• "Sovereignty and Economic Development: The Case of Israel and Palestine", The Economic Journal, 111, F291-F308 (2001) with Weinblatt;

• The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future(Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2002) co-edited with Young;

• "Absorbing Returnees in a Viable Palestinian State: a Forward Looking Macroeconomic Perspective" Ch. 10 in Cobham, D. and N. Kanafani (eds) The Economics of Palestine: Economic Policy and Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestinian State, with N. Kanafani, (2004), London: Routledge;

• A series of conversations (in Hebrew) with D. Khenin, Makom Letikun ? A Different Perspective: Economics, Society and the Environment (Tel-Aviv: Babel, 2004).

For more information and publications please click on the follwing links:
http://www.econ.bgu.ac.il/facultym/arnona/main.htm
http://www.vanleer.org.il/Eng/content.asp?Id=304

Contact

E-mail:arnona@bgumail.bgu.ac.il