âLimited liability and the wealth of âuncivilised nationsâ: Adam Smith and the limits to the European Enlightenmentâ. Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol 34, Issue No. 5. pp. 857-67. September 2010.
âTechnological progress and economic analysis from Petty to Smithâ. European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 17, Issue No. 5. Forthcoming, 2010. [Special issue on technology and economics with keynote article by Robert Solow.]
âFrom Petty to Ricardo up to Sraffaâ. Review article on The Wealth of Ideas: a History of Economic Thought by Alessandro Roncaglia. Cambridge University Press, 2005. pp. xiv, 582. [Originally published in Italian in 2001 as La ricchezza delle idee.] Economic Issues 13 (1) March 2008. pp. 106-8.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
âEconomics, geography and colonialism in the writings of William Pettyâ. In Arena, Richard, Dow, Sheila, and Klaes, Matthias, eds. Open Economics: economics in relation to other disciplines. London: Routledge. 2009. pp. 233-46.
âColonialism, displacement and cannibalism in early modern economic thoughtâ. In Balfour, Robert, ed. 2010. The representation of capital 1700-2000: speculation and displacement. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 16-34.
Commissioned items
âWilliam Petty and early colonial roots of development economicsâ. In Jomo, Kwame Sundaram, ed., 2005. Pioneers of Economic Development. New Delhi: Tulika Books; London: Zed Press. pp. 10-30.
âDevelopment and geography: current debates in historical perspectiveâ. In Jomo, Kwame Sundaram, and Fine, Ben, eds, 2005. The New Development Economics: after the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika Books; London: Zed Press. pp. 249-68.
Further items under review
âThe William Petty problem and the Whig history of economics". Under review by the editors of a special issue of Cambridge Journal of Economics on âWhig history and the reinterpretation of economic theory".
âPluralism and the economic geography of developmentâ. Under review for inclusion in Lee, Frederic, ed. Pluralism in economics.
âFrench Jesuits, English political economy, and a âmost remarkable accidentââ. Under review for inclusion in: Almodovar, AntĂłnio, ed. The popularisation of economic ideas.
âThe practice of mathematical economists: a historical overview". Under review by the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, for a special issue on âThe practices of economists in the past and todayâ.
Book under revision for publication
William Petty and the roots of economics: landspace, population and the fiscal-military state. Formerly also published items on Middle Eastern and bibliographical subjects.