Denis Patrick O'Brien
Encyclopedia
Denis Patrick O'Brien is an English economist who has worked in industrial economics
and the history of economic thought
.
Edited volumes:
Industrial organization
Industrial organization is the field of economics that builds on the theory of the firm in examining the structure of, and boundaries between, firms and markets....
and the history of economic thought
History of economic thought
The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics from the ancient world to the present day...
.
Major publications
- Information Agreements, Competition and Efficiency (with D. Swann), 1969.
- J.R. McCulloch, A Study in Classical Economics, 1970.
- Competition in British Industry (with D. Swann, P. Maunder, W.S. Howe), 1974.
- The Classical Economists, 1975 (revised ed., 2004).
- Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth (with W.S. Howe, D.M. Wright, R.J. O'Brien), 1979.
- Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach (with A.C. Darnell), 1982.
- Lionel Robbins, 1988.
- Thomas Joplin and Classical Economics, 1993.
- The Development of Monetary Economics: A Modern Perspective on Monetary Controversies, 2007.
Edited volumes:
- The Correspondence of Lord Overstone (3 vols.), 1971.
- Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain (ed. and contrib., with J. Presley), 1981.
- Economic Analysis in Historical Perspective (with J. Creedy), 1984.
- Foundations of Monetary Economics (6 vols.), 1994.
- Collected Works of J.R. McCulloch (8 vols.)
- The Foundations of Business Cycle Theory (3 vols.), 1997.
- A History of Taxation, (8 vols.), 1999.
Secondary sources
- Creedy, John (2001) - "D.P. O'Brien's contribution to the history of economic analysis", in Historians of Economics and Economic Thought. The Construction of Disciplinary Memory, ed. Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels.
- M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.