Professor Anthony Brewer
Emeritus Professor of the History of Economics
Contact Details
Email: A.Brewer@bristol.ac.ukPersonal Web Page
Research Interests
Anthony Brewer's main research interests are in the history of economics, with particular emphasis on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has also worked on other topics, including technical change, labour-managed firms and international trade. He has been General Secretary of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and has been on the editorial boards of three journals: History of Political Economy (USA), the Journal of the History of Economics (USA), and History of Economic Ideas (Italy).
Recent Publications
For a full list of Anthony Brewer's recent publications please go to his personal web page.
- Surplus. In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., ed. L. Blume and S. Durlauf, London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
- 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, forthcoming 2007.
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Assessments of Adam Smith’s Economics. Adam Smith Review, 3, forthcoming 2007.
- Pre-classical economics in Britain. In the Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought, ed. Jeff Biddle, John Davis and Warren Samuels, Maldon, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 78–93.
Related Links
Documents for the History of Economics
Microeconomic Research at Bristol