Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
Queensland University of Technology. DPhil (Oxon.) 1963; BEc. (Sydney, 1949).
Formerly Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, Don Lamberton was Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland from 1973 to 1989. He has held visiting appointments at many universities and research centres, including Pittsburgh, Stanford, Oxford, UCLA, Tel-Aviv, and East- West Centre Honolulu. He has served as consultant to organisations such as OECD, UNESCO, ITU, and UNCTC, and as a member of Australian Government Committees of Inquiry (public libraries, industrial property, and marine industries science and technology).
In 2006 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for ‘Service to economics as a leading academic and researcher in the field of information economics through the multidisciplinary study of the impact of technology, information and society on economic development.’
Professor Lamberton is Editor-in-Chief of Information Economics and Policy, General Editor of Prometheus, and a member of the editorial boards of Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Human Systems Management and World Futures Quarterly.
His recent books are The Economics of Language (2002), Globalization, Employment and Quality of Life (2002), Communication and Trade (1998), The New Frontiers of Communications Policy (1998), and The Economics of Communication and Information (1996).