Anthony Brewer

Emeritus Professor of the History of Economics
University of Bristol

Department of Economics, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, England.
Telephone: (+44/0) 117 331 0521
Fax: (+44/0) 117 928 8577
E-mail: A.Brewer@bris.ac.uk

Office 3C2, no regular office hours: contact me by e-mail to arrange a time

My research is now focused on the history of economics, though I have in the past published in other areas, including the economics of technical change, the economics of labour managed firms, and international economics. I have published three books and various articles and reviews in journals and edited volumes. I am Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, I am on the editorial advisory board of History of Political Economy, History of Economic Ideas, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and have held visiting posts at Duke University (North Carolina) and at Chuo University (Tokyo). I maintain a set of Web documents for the history of economics.

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Research Interests

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century economics, the history of theories of growth and technical change.

Publications

Books

• The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth. Abingdon: Routledge,2010.
• Richard Cantillon: Pioneer of Economic Theory. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Marxist Theories of Imperialism, a Critical Survey (second, revised edition). London: Routledge, 1990. Japanese translation by S. Shibuya and A. Ichii, retitled as Sekai Keizai to Marukusu Keizaigaku (World Economy and Marxist Economics), with new preface, Tokyo: Chuo University Press, 1991.
• A Guide to Marx's Capital. Cambridge University Press, 1984. Chinese translation by Song Hai-Yan, Tianjin, China, 1992.
• Marxist Theories of Imperialism, a Critical Survey. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

Articles (since 1995)

• The Concept of an Agricultural Surplus, from Petty to Smith. Journal of the History of Economics, forthcoming 2011.
• The Irish Connection and the Birth of Political Economy: Petty and Cantillon. In Ireland and Political Economy: Towards a History of Irish Economic Thought, ed. T. Boylan, R. Prendergast and J. Turner, London: Routledge, 2010.
• Assessments of Alfred Marshall's place in the history of economic thought. In the Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall, ed T. Raffaelli. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
• On the Other (Invisible) Hand ... History of Political Economy, 41.3, 2009, pp. 319-44.
• Surplus. In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., ed. L. Blume and S. Durlauf, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Assessments of Adam Smith's Economics. Adam Smith Review, 3, 2007, pp. 161–86.
• Political Economy. In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought, ed. G.Claeys, Routledge, 2004.
• Pre-classical economics in Britain. In the Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought, ed. Jeff Biddle, John Davis and Warren Samuels, Blackwell, forthcoming.
• The Marxist tradition in the History of Economics. History of Political Economy, annual supplement to Vol 34, 2002, pp. 361–77.
• Legacies and Traditions in Economics (review essay on 'The Pillars of Economis Understanding: Ideas and Traditions' by M. Perlman and C. R. McCann Jr.), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 19A, 2001, pp. 229-40.
• Introduction. In Richard Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General, Rutgers, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001.
• Imperialism in retrospect. In The Political Economy of Imperialism: Critical Appraisals, ed. R. Chilcote, Kluwer Academic, 1999, pp. 65-84 (Chinese translation forthcoming, Chinese academy of Social Sciences).
• Adam Smith on classes and saving. In From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D. P. O'Brien, ed. R. Backhouse and J. Creedy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, pp. 120-38.
• Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Concept of Economic Growth. History of Political Economy, 31, 1999, pp. 237-54.
• Adam Smith on the relationship between town and country: pitfalls in the use of formal models in the history of economics. History of Economic Ideas, 1998, 6.2, pp. 141-9.
• Marx, Karl. In H. Kurz and N. Salvadori (eds), The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, vol 2, 1998, pp. 84-9.
• Invention. In D. Mair, C. Lee, and O. Hamouda (eds), The Economics of John Rae. London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 129-43.Available as a .pdf file.
• Luxury and economic development: David Hume and Adam Smith. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 45, 1997, pp. 78-98.
• Alfred Marshall, (review article). Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 15, 1997, pp. 265-76.
• An eighteenth century view of economic development: Hume and Steuart. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 4, 1997 pp. 1-22. Available as a .pdf file.
• The concept of growth in eighteenth century economics. History of Political Economy, 27, 1995, pp. 609-38.
• Rent and profit in the Wealth of Nations. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 42, 1995, pp. 183-200.
• A minor post-Ricardian? Marx as an economist. History of Political Economy, 27, 1995, pp. 111-46.