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My research fields are Development Economics (technology and development, increasing returns, entrepreneurship and the concept of development) and History of Economic Thought (competition and division of labour, economic thought in Ireland, Marshall and Schumpeter). current projects include papers on development as freedom and knowledge and information in classical economics.

Publications

• Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of RDC Black
• 'Government Intervention in a Dynamic Economy'
• 'A Representative Man'
• 'Some Notes on the Early Development of the Concept of Abstract Labour'
• Market Forces and World Development,
• 'Marshallian External Economies'
• 'Increasing Returns and Competitive Equilibrium - the Content and Development of Marshall's Theory'
• Editor, Development Perspectives for the 1990s
• 'Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit,
• 'Causes of Multiproduct Production in the Engineering Industries in Developing Countries'
• 'Economies of Scale in the Engineering Industries in Developing Countries'
• 'Machine Tool Production in Developing Countries'
• Choice of Technique in Iron Founding,
• 'A Comment on a New Interpretation of David Ricardo's Early Theory of Profits'
• 'Malthus's Discussion of the Corn Ratio Theory of Profits'
• 'James Anderson's Political Economy - his influence on Smith and Malthus'
• 'Schumpeter, Hegel and the Vision of Development'
• 'Increasing Returns and Development Policy'
• 'Some Aspects of Technology Choice in the Iron Founding Industry'