Martin Jones

Martin graduated with a BA from Leicester University in 1991. He went to University of East Anglia where he gained his MA and PhD in Economics. From 1995 he has worked as a research officer at Oxford, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities before becoming a Lecturer at Dundee in October 2000.

 External Affiliations

  • External Examiner at the University of East Anglia
  • Member of Royal Economic Society
Martin’s research interests lie broadly in the area of behavioural economics. He has done work in experimental economics, particularly in relation to game theory and decision theory. He has also looked at the methodology of experimental economics, examining some of the problems of economic experiments from a philosophical perspective. More recently he has been researching the theoretical foundations of the distribution of values and their influence on economic choices.
  • Global Economic Perspectives
  • Risk and Information
  • Business Economic Analysis
  • Behavioural Economics (MSc in Economics; Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics)

Publications since 2008

Refereed papers

  •  Jones M.K. (2012) “What to do with a problem like Duhem-Quine?” Revue de Philosophie Economique (forthcoming)
  • Jones M.K. (2011). "External Validity and Libraries of External Phenomena: A Critique of Guala's Methodology of Experimental Economics" Economics and Philosophy, vol. 27 , pp 247-271
  •   Chuah, S.; Hoffmann, R.; Jones, M.; Williams, G.(2009)., "An Economic Anatomy of Culture Attitudes and Behaviour in Inter- and Intra-National Ultimatum Game Experiments", Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol.30(5), pp. 732-744
  •   Jones, M.K. (2008)., "On the Autonomy of Experiments in Economics", Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 15:4 p. 391-407.

  • Jones M.K. (2008) "Positive Confirmation in Rational and Irrational Learning" Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 37 p. 1029-1046.

  Selected Publications Prior to 2008

  • Jones M.K. (2007) "A Gricean Analysis of Understanding in Economic Experiments" Journal of Economic Methodology vol. 14:2 p. 167-185.
  • Chuah, S.; Hoffmann, R.; Jones, M.; Williams, G.(2007)., "Do Cultures Clash? Evidence from Cross-National Ultimatum Game Experiments", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 64 p. 35-48.
  • P. Dolan & M.Jones (2004) "Explaining Attitudes towards Ambiguity: An Experimental Test of the Comparative Ignorance Hypothesis" Scottish Journal of Political Economy vol.51 p.281- 301.
  • M.Jones & R.Sugden (2001) "Positive Confirmation Bias in the Acquisition of Information" Theory and Decision vol 50 p.59-99.

Lecturer
(BA(Leicester), MA, PhD (University of East Anglia)

Contact:
m.k.jones@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 385164
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

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