Publications
Books
Johnson, Nicholas and Markey-Towler, Brendan (2021). Economics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: internet, artificial intelligence and blockchain. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429430015
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2018). An architecture of the mind: a psychological foundation for the science of everyday life. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781351002301
Book Chapters
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2024). Evolutionary economics and psychology. Routledge handbook of evolutionary economics. (pp. 89-97) edited by Kurt Dopfer, Richard R. Nelson, Jason Potts and Andreas Pyka. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429398971-8
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2022). Blockchain and the “Smart-Ification” of governance: The last “building block” in the smart economy. The Routledge handbook of smart technologies: an economic and social perspective. (pp. 522-534) edited by Heinz D. Kurz, Marlies Schütz, Rita Strohmaier and Stella S. Zilian. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429351921-30
Journal Articles
Earl, Peter E., Markey-Towler, Brendan and Coutts, Ken (2022). 50 Years Ago: Duncan Ironmonger’s New Commodities and Consumer Behaviour and its relationship with Lancaster’s ‘New Approach’ to consumer behaviour. History of Economics Review, 83 (1), 40-67. doi: 10.1080/10370196.2022.2106704
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2021). Psychology of evolutionary economic behaviour. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 18 (2), 361-383. doi: 10.1007/s40844-021-00209-1
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2020). Blockchains and institutional competition in innovation systems. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 9 (2), 185-193. doi: 10.1108/JEPP-03-2019-0015
Allen, Darcy W. E., Berg, Chris, Markey-Towler, Brendan, Novak, Mikayla and Potts, Jason (2020). Blockchain and the evolution of institutional technologies: implications for innovation policy. Research Policy, 49 (1) 103865, 103865. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.103865
Murray, Cameron K. and Markey-Towler, Brendan (2019). A theory of return-seeking firms. Australian Economic Papers, 58 (3), 247-258. doi: 10.1111/1467-8454.12152
Allen, Darcy W.E., Berg, Alastair, Berg, Chris, Markey-Towler, Brendan and Potts, Jason (2019). Some economic consequences of the GDPR. Economics Bulletin, 39 (2), 785-797.
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2019). The new microeconomics: a psychological, institutional, and evolutionary paradigm with neoclassical economics as a special case. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 78 (1), 95-135. doi: 10.1111/ajes.12260
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2018). Rules, perception and emotion: when do institutions determine behaviour?. Journal of Institutional Economics, 15 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1017/s1744137418000267
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2018). A formal psychological theory for evolutionary economics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28 (4), 1-35. doi: 10.1007/s00191-018-0566-4
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2018). Antifragility, the Black Swan and psychology: a psychological theory of adaptability in evolutionary economies. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 15 (2), 367-384. doi: 10.1007/s40844-018-0097-6
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2018). A History of Australasian Economic Thought, by Alex Millmow (Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2017), pp. viii+250. Economic Record, 94 (304), 109-111. doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12387
Markley-Towler, Brendan (2018). The competition and evolution of ideas in the public sphere: a new foundation for institutional theory. Journal of Institutional Economics, 15 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1017/s1744137418000061
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2017). Review of The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Eco-nomics, Volume 1: Theory and Origins, by Geoff Harcourt and Peter Kriesler (OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, 2013), pp. 640. Economic Record, 93 (303), 659-661. doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12379
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2017). I, Roboticus Oeconomicus: the philosophy of mind in economics, and why it matters. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41 (1), 203-237. doi: 10.1093/cje/bew014
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2016). On the problem of constructing rational preferences. Economic Record, 92 (S1), 68-82. doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12275
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2016). Law of the jungle: firm survival and price dynamics in evolutionary markets. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 26 (3), 655-696. doi: 10.1007/s00191-016-0446-8
Conference Paper
Moore, S., Jenner, A., McIntosh, T., Markey-Towler, B. and Pickering, J. (2021). Utilising behavioural science to create practice change in agriculture: A case study with the Queensland sugarcane industry. 42nd Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Conference 2021, ASSCT 2021, Bundaberg West, QLD Australia, 20 - 23 April 2021. Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.
Theses
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2017). Foundations for Economic Analysis: The Architecture of Socioeconomic Complexity. PhD Thesis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.91
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2012). The theory of income distribution : an exploration of the theory of allocation with a new proposal based on systems science. Honours Thesis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Working Papers
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2014). Why do I keep going in circles? On the impossibility of constructing rational preferences. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 507. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Markey-Towler, Brendan (2014). The Impossibility of Rational Consumer Choice: A Clarifying Note. School of Economics Discussion Paper. 506. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Markey-Towler, Brendan and Murray, Cameron K. (2014). A Theory of Return-Seeking Firms. School of Economics Discussion Paper. 497. School of Economics, University of Queensland.