Charles Elworthy

Charles Herbert Elworthy (5 November 1961 – 8 June 2023) was a New Zealand economist and social scientist. Early life and family Elworthy was born in Timaru on 5 November 1961, one of four children of Fiona Elizabeth Elworthy (née McHardy) and Peter Herbert Elworthy. Academic and professional activities Elworthy was a visiting business fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and the head of research at the Map of Agriculture. He taught as a professor at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and the University of Szczecin (Poland), and was a privatdozent at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Elworthy's research approach was fundamentally shaped while at Cambridge through Douglass North’s supervisions on the New Institutional Economics. This was complemented by an introduction to alternative psychological models and their implications for political behaviour and international relations at Yale. These foundations were combined in his doctoral research on the evolutionary foundations of human behaviour and his later work on the interaction between governance structures and behaviour.