Simon James is an Associate Professor in Economics in the Department of Organisation Studies, a Chartered Tax Adviser, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a Fellow of the College of Teachers and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

He has also held visiting positions at six universities overseas including the Australian National University and the most recent was a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

He holds an MBA as well as Masters degrees in Economics, Law, Education and Educational Management, and the subject of his PhD was ‘Taxation and Economic Decisions’.

Edited books:

Lamb, M, Lymer, A, Freedman, J and James, S (2005), Taxation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Oxford University Press, xi + 316 pages.

James, S (2002), Taxation, Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, Routledge, London and New York, four volumes, xi + 1,696 pages.

Recent papers in journals:

Simon James (forthcoming), ‘The contribution of the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team’, International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics.

Simon James (2014), ‘The importance of fairness in tax policy: Behavioral economics and the UK experience’,  International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics’, 3(1), 1-12.

Simon James, Ian Wallshutzky and Clinton Alley (2013), ‘The Henry Report and the Taxation of Work Expenses’, Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services, 2013, 11 (2),46-58.

James, S. (2012), ‘Behavioural economics and the risks of tax administration’, eJournal of Tax Research, 10(2), 345 -363.

James, S. (2012), ‘The contribution of behavioral economics to tax reform in the United Kingdom’, Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol 41(4), 468-475, doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.07.004.

James, S. (2011), ‘Does business school research have to be "excellent" to benefit business school teaching?’International Journal of Management Education, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 37-47.