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Dr Tomás Rotta

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Dr Tomás Rotta

Position

Lecturer in Economics

Department

Institute of Management Studies

Email

T.Rotta (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Tomás specialises in theoretical and applied Political Economy, with expertise in coding and quantitative methods.

Tomás Rotta is Lecturer and Programme Director of Economics, and member of the Structural Economic Analysis Research Unit.

Tomás specialises in Political Economy, value theory, quantitative methods, input-output analysis, and coding in Python and R.

Tomás’ complete CV is available on his personal website.

Tomás is webmaster and member of the management committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics.

Academic qualifications

  • Post-graduate certificate in higher education (HEA fellow) 2015
  • PhD in Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA 2014
  • MA in Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA 2010
  • MSc in Economic Development, University of São Paulo, Brazil 2008
  • BSc in Business Management, University of São Paulo, Brazil 2005

Teaching and supervision

Research interests

My main research interests are:

Political Economy and value theory
Growth and distribution
Intellectual monopoly, digital assets, and the knowledge economy
Computational and quantitative methods
Applied econometrics, modelling, and programming in Python and R

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

Vidal, Matt; Smith, Tony; Rotta, Tomas and Prew, Paul, eds. 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190695545

Book Section

Prew, Paul; Rotta, Tomas; Smith, Tony and Vidal, Matt. 2019. The Enduring Relevance of Karl Marx. In: Matt Vidal; Tony Smith; Tomas Rotta and Paul Prew, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-35. ISBN 9780190695545

Rotta, Tomas and Teixeira, Rodrigo. 2019. The Commodification of Knowledge and Information. In: Matt Vidal; Tony Smith; Tomas Rotta and Paul Prew, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 379-401. ISBN 9780190695545

Article

Rotta, Tomas. 2024. Intellectual Monopoly and Income Inequality in the United States, 1948–2021: A Long-Run Analysis. Review of Radical Political Economics, ISSN 0486-6134

Rotta, Tomas and Kumar, Rishabh. 2024. Was Marx right? Development and exploitation in 43 countries, 2000–2014. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 69, pp. 213-223. ISSN 0954-349X

Rotta, Tomas. 2022. Information Rents, Economic Growth and Inequality: An Empirical Study of the United States. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 46(2), pp. 341-370. ISSN 0309-166X

Report

Rotta, Tomas. 2020. Effective Demand and Prices of Production: An Evolutionary Approach. Working Paper. MPRA Paper, Munich.

Rotta, Tomas. 2018. Effective Demand and Say's Law in Marxist Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective. Working Paper. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, London.

Rotta, Tomas and Teixeira, Rodrigo. 2018. The Commodification of Knowledge and Information. Working Paper. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, London.

Position

Lecturer in Economics
Programme Director of Economics