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About Rob Gilles

I am a professor of theoretical economics in the Queen’s Business School at the Queen’s University of Belfast, UK.


Research interests:

  • General equilibrium theory.
  • Economics of supply chains and production networks.
  • The economics of wealth creation through a social division of labour.
  • The theory of collective good provision.
  • Core equivalence theory.
  • The theory of institutional and socially structured economies.
  • Game theory and its applications to networks.
  • Social network analysis, in particular centrality measures.
  • The mathematical analysis of hierarchical organisation structures.

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