Ashley carreras
Lecturer
Faculty of Business and Law
De Montfort University
United Kingdom
Biography
Ashley Carreras is a Principle Lecturer in Economics and Decision Analysis. He is Programme Leader for the Master programmes in Economics and is an active researcher who specialises in the development of theory through consultancy. He coordinates the Problem Structuring Methods Special Interest Group for the Operations Research Society and is a regular contributor to their conferences and to the European Journal of Operations research. His main interest is in the decision making behaviour of groups, and the nature of collective action. He has taught in the UK, USA, Spain, France, Belarus, Botswana, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Research Interest
Decision Analysis, Problem Structuring Methods, Philosophy of Economics, Political Entrepreneurship
Publications
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Carreras AL (1998) Economic Agents and Intentionality: A Case for Rationality to be Understood in Terms of Commitment. Kingston Business School Occasional Paper Series: No 30. Kingston University UK.
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Carreras AL (1997) Economic Decision Making in a Social Context: The case for rationality being understood in terms of commitment. Knowledge Learning and Uncertainty conference at Limburg University.
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Carreras AL, Dehsi G, Gowland D (1997) Debt Management: A Fuzzy Econometric Model In the proceedings of the Second International Stockholm Seminar on Risk Behaviour and Risk Management.
