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.

Recent Publications

• Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of RDC Black
  London: Routledge, 2000 (2000)
• 'Government Intervention in a Dynamic Economy'
  New Political Economy 1998 (1998)
• 'A Representative Man'
  Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1998 (1998)
• 'Some Notes on the Early Development of the Concept of Abstract Labour'
  Contributions to Political Economy (1995)
• Market Forces and World Development,
  London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin's Press, 1994 (1994)
• 'Marshallian External Economies'
  Economic Journal 1993 (1993)
• 'Increasing Returns and Competitive Equilibrium - the Content and Development of Marshall's Theory'
  Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1993 (1993)
• Editor, Development Perspectives for the 1990s
  Macmillan, New York: St Martin's Press, 1991 (1991)
• 'Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit,
  History of Political Economy, 1991 (1991)
• 'Causes of Multiproduct Production in the Engineering Industries in Developing Countries'
  World Development, 1990 (1990)
• 'Economies of Scale in the Engineering Industries in Developing Countries'
  Journal of Development Studies, 1990 (1990)
• 'Machine Tool Production in Developing Countries'
  Scottish Academic Press, 1984, (with M M Huq).
• Choice of Technique in Iron Founding,
  Scottish Academic Press, 1984 (with B A Bhat).
• 'A Comment on a New Interpretation of David Ricardo's Early Theory of Profits'
  Economic Journal, 1986
• 'Malthus's Discussion of the Corn Ratio Theory of Profits'
  Cambridge Journal of Economics, June, 1986, pp. 1087-9. Reprinted in M Blaug, ed., 1991 Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) and John Stewart Mill (1806-1873), Pioneers in Economics, Section 11, Edward Elgar. Also in J Cunningham Wood ed. Critical Assessments of M
• 'James Anderson's Political Economy - his influence on Smith and Malthus'
  Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1987 reprinted in M Blaug, ed., 1991, Pre-Classical Economist, Edward Elgar.
• 'Schumpeter, Hegel and the Vision of Development'
  forthcoming Cambridge Journal of Economics
• 'Increasing Returns and Development Policy'
  Contribution to UNRISD 2001Cape Town conference on Rethinking Development Economics, UNRISD web site.
• 'Some Aspects of Technology Choice in the Iron Founding Industry'
  World Development, 1977 (with B A Bhat)