Dr Ray Petridis
Adjunct Professor

Tel: (08) 9433 0905
Email: Ray.Petridis@nd.edu.au

Dr Ray Petridis’ career, spanning in excess of three decades, has been in the teaching of economics, as a researcher in economics and as an economic consultant and policy adviser.  Prior to his adjunct appointment at Notre Dame he has held permanent academic appointments at The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University as well as short term appointments at Cambridge and Duke Universities and at the Australian National University. 

Dr Petridis has researched and published widely on aspects of the Australian and Western Australian labour markets.  He has authored or co-authored books and monographs dealing with the occupational segregation of women in Australia; women and work in Western Australia; and the invisible underemployment of migrants in Australia.  He has also published numerous papers dealing with aspects of the Australian and Western Australian economies.  His numerous research grants, consultancies and economic advice to governments have been concentrated in the same areas.  In the field of history of economic thought he has specialised in the work of British economists in the nineteenth century, a field in which he has also published extensively.

Dr Petridis current research interests include “Inflation Targeting and the ‘Success’ of Recent Australian Monetary Policy” and, “The Implications for Neoclassical Theorising of the Emergence of Efficiency Wage Theories in Nineteenth Century Economics”.