Ian Steedman
Encyclopedia
Ian Steedman was for many years a Professor of economics at the University of Manchester
before moving down the road to Manchester Metropolitan University
. He retired from there at the end of 2006, but was appointed as an Emeritus Professor.
economic theorists with work in the areas overlapping with those of Marx, Sraffa, Marshall
, Jevons
and Wicksteed
. He has also made contributions to economic theory on time, international trade, capital theory and growth and distribution.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation and his work now includes the study of "happiness" and its relation to welfare economics.
From Exploitation to Altruism. Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989.
(Editor and Contributor) Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, 1870–1930, Routledge, 1995.
Consumption takes Time. Implications for Economic Theory, Routledge, London, 2001.
(with U. Krause) Goethe’s Faust, Arrow’s possibility theorem and the individual decision taker. In J. Elster (ed.), The Multiple Self, C.U.P., 1986.
Rationality, economic man and altruism in Philip H. Wicksteed’s Common Sense of Political Economy. (In) Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College, Oxford, (ed. B.A. Smith), 1986.
Trade interest versus class interest. Economia Politica vol. 3, 1986.
The Economic Journal and Socialism, 1890 to 1920, (in) J.D. Hey and D. Winch (eds.), A Century of Economics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
P.H. Wicksteed on Das Kapital, Volume I, (in) D. Moggridge (ed.), Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, Volume III, Classicals, Marxians and Neo-classicals, Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1990.
‘Worker versus worker’, (in) S. Kozyr-Kowalski and A. Przestalski (eds.), On Social Differentiation. A Contribution to the Critique of Marxist Ideology, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1992.
John Carruthers: A Victorian market socialist, European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 1994.
P.H. Wicksteed: Economist and Prophet, (in) H.G. Brennan and A.M.C. Waterman (eds.), Economics and Religion; Are they distinct?, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1994.
Welfare Economics and Robinson Crusoe the Producer, Metroeconomica, 2000, 51(2), 151-167.
On some concepts of rationality in economics, in P. E. Earl & S. F. Frowen (eds) Economics as an Art of Thought: Essays in memory of G.L.S. Shackle, 2000, London, Routledge, 101-123.
British economists and philosophers on Marx’s value theory, 1920-1925. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004.
Philip Henry Wicksteed, entry in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
On not traducing economics. (In) J. Atherton and H. Skinner (eds.), Through the Eye of a Needle, Epworth Press, 2007
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
before moving down the road to Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the...
. He retired from there at the end of 2006, but was appointed as an Emeritus Professor.
His work
Steedman has been recognised as one of the leading Neo RicardianNeo-Ricardianism
The neo-Ricardian school is an economic schoolthat derives from the close reading and interpretation of David Ricardo by Piero Sraffa, and from Sraffa's critique of Neoclassical economics as presented in his The Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, and further developed by the...
economic theorists with work in the areas overlapping with those of Marx, Sraffa, Marshall
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall was an Englishman and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years...
, Jevons
William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...
and Wicksteed
Philip Wicksteed
Philip Henry Wicksteed is known primarily as an economist. He was also an English Unitarian theologian , classicist, medievalist, and literary critic....
. He has also made contributions to economic theory on time, international trade, capital theory and growth and distribution.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation and his work now includes the study of "happiness" and its relation to welfare economics.
Books
Marx After Sraffa. NLB, London, 1977From Exploitation to Altruism. Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989.
(Editor and Contributor) Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, 1870–1930, Routledge, 1995.
Consumption takes Time. Implications for Economic Theory, Routledge, London, 2001.
Papers
Economic Theory and Intrinsically Non-Autonomous Preferences and Beliefs. Quaderni Fondazione Feltrinelli. (Proceedings of the Seminar in Economic Methodology), No. 7/8, 1980.(with U. Krause) Goethe’s Faust, Arrow’s possibility theorem and the individual decision taker. In J. Elster (ed.), The Multiple Self, C.U.P., 1986.
Rationality, economic man and altruism in Philip H. Wicksteed’s Common Sense of Political Economy. (In) Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College, Oxford, (ed. B.A. Smith), 1986.
Trade interest versus class interest. Economia Politica vol. 3, 1986.
The Economic Journal and Socialism, 1890 to 1920, (in) J.D. Hey and D. Winch (eds.), A Century of Economics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
P.H. Wicksteed on Das Kapital, Volume I, (in) D. Moggridge (ed.), Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, Volume III, Classicals, Marxians and Neo-classicals, Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1990.
‘Worker versus worker’, (in) S. Kozyr-Kowalski and A. Przestalski (eds.), On Social Differentiation. A Contribution to the Critique of Marxist Ideology, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1992.
John Carruthers: A Victorian market socialist, European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 1994.
P.H. Wicksteed: Economist and Prophet, (in) H.G. Brennan and A.M.C. Waterman (eds.), Economics and Religion; Are they distinct?, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1994.
Welfare Economics and Robinson Crusoe the Producer, Metroeconomica, 2000, 51(2), 151-167.
On some concepts of rationality in economics, in P. E. Earl & S. F. Frowen (eds) Economics as an Art of Thought: Essays in memory of G.L.S. Shackle, 2000, London, Routledge, 101-123.
British economists and philosophers on Marx’s value theory, 1920-1925. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004.
Philip Henry Wicksteed, entry in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
On not traducing economics. (In) J. Atherton and H. Skinner (eds.), Through the Eye of a Needle, Epworth Press, 2007