Dr Rex A McKenzie

About

I was trained at the New School for Social Research in New York USA. My 2006 Ph.D. thesis was entitled Three Essays in the Political Economy of the English Speaking Caribbean. I have held Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher posts in Economics at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica, Purchase College, SUNY, New York, USA, and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Before academia, I was a professional Foreign Exchange Dealer for sixteen years and this professional experience connects to my research activities in the area of Global Political Economy. 

I am a 2021-2022 Trust for London (TFL) grantee and lead the Wealth Chains Project (WCP). The WCP is a collaboration of social science researchers from different universities aimed at gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between property investment coming from offshore tax havens and socio-economic inequality in London.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Teaching and learning

I have been teaching for several years and in my teaching I follow Dave Collander, "Ultimately content, not delivery, determines whether one is or is not a good teacher. No matter how well you deliver it, if you do not have something to say, you are not going to be a good teacher." I therefore spend a lot of time thinking about content. Am I saying what I need to say in the way that students can understand and relate to? Thus for me, the key teaching issues are: "what is the content of what we are teaching; what role does that content serve; and should the content be changed?"

Undergraduate courses taught

Research

Current Research:The Wealth Chain Project

I lead the Wealth Chain Project. The project is the result of a competitive bidding process and is a Trust for London funded research project that combines open ended, semi structured interviews with HM Land Registry data on foreign ownership and a unique empty homes data set to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between property investment coming from offshore tax havens and socio-economic inequality in London.

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

Number of items: 28.

Article

, Atkinson, Rowland and (2023) Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, ISSN (print) 0308-518X (Epub Ahead of Print)

Bourne, Jonathan, and (2023) Environment and Planning B : Urban Analytics and City Science, ISSN (print) 2399-8083 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Bourne, Jonathan, and (2022) arXiv,

and Atkinson, Rowland (2020) Urban Studies, 57(1), pp. 21-38. ISSN (print) 0042-0980

(2012) Social and Economic Studies, 61(4), pp. 171-203. ISSN (print) 0037-7651

(2011) Review of Radical Political Economics, 43(2), pp. 198-215. ISSN (print) 0486-6134

Book

Comert, Hasan and McKenzie, Rex A., eds. (2016) Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar. 288p. ISBN 9781783474301

Book Section

[Interviewee] and Dyveke Styve, Maria [Interviewer] (2017) In: Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu , Harvold Kvangraven, Ingrid , Santanta, Frutuoso and Dyveke Styve, Maria, (eds.) Dialogues on development. New York, U.S. : Young Scholars International ; Institute for New Economic Thinking. pp. 42-48. 1 ISSN (online) 2472-6966

and Mohamed, Seeraj (2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 115-125. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

and Mohamed, Seeraj (2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 26-37. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 38-60. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 106-114. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 136-154. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 166-174. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 193-204. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

and Mohammed, Seeraj (2016) In: Mohamed, Seeraj, (ed.) The South African Financial System. Financialisation, Economy, Society And Sustainable Development (FESSUD). pp. 11-25. (Studies in Financial Systems, (15))

(2016) In: Comert, Hasan and McKenzie, Rex A., (eds.) The Global South after the crisis : growth, inequality and development in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar. pp. 123-144. ISBN 9781783474301

Conference or Workshop Item

(2013) In: Financialisation Conference: International Capital Flows and Financialisation of the South African Economy: Policy Options for Stimulating the Employment-driven New Growth Path; 3-4 Oct 2013, Pretoria, South Africa. (Unpublished)

(2005) In: University of Massachusetts – New School University Economics Graduate Student Workshop; 5-6 Nov 2005, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. (Unpublished)

(2005) In: 6th Annual SALISES Conference : Governance, Institutions and Economic Growth: Reflections on Sir Arthur Lewis’ Theory of Economic Growth; 17-18 Mar 2005, Mona, Jamaica. (Unpublished)

Monograph

(2017) (Discussion Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, ÖØ¿ÚζSM. 21 p. (Economics Discussion Paper, no. 2017-04)

(2016) (Discussion Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, ÖØ¿ÚζSM. 19 p. (Economics Discussion Paper, no. 2016-09)

(2016) (Discussion Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, ÖØ¿ÚζSM. 25 p. (Economics Discussion Papers, no. 2016-05)

(2015) (Discussion Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, ÖØ¿ÚζSM. 36 p. (Economics Discussion Paper, no. 2015-07)

(2013) (Working Paper) New York, U.S.A. : New School for Social Research. 23 p. (New School for Social Research, Department of Economics Working Papers, no. 05/2013)

and Pons-Vignon, Nicolas (2012) (Working Paper) Munich, Germany : MPRA University Library of Munich. 34 p. (MPRA Paper, no. 40119)

, Ashman, S., Pillay, S., Mfongeh, G. and Ncube, P. (2011) (Working Paper) Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID) University of Witwatersrand.

, Newman, S., Mohamed, S., Gwanoya, N., Mfongeh, G. and Ncube, P. (2011) (Technical Report) Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID), University of Witswatersrand.

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Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact

Among other things, I work very closely with Action on Empty Homes in order to bring foward policy suggesstions aimed at a more equitable distribution of housing wealth in the UK. I am particularly concerned by the scale of homelessness alongside growing numbers of empty homes in the capital and other cities. To that end, I sit on the Board of Action on Empty Homes and lead periodic workshops and seminars on related housing issues..