Ian Steedman (born 1941, in

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) was for many years a professor of economics at the

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before moving down the road to

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. He retired from there at the end of 2006, but was appointed as an emeritus professor.

His work

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, 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

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, and his work now includes the study of "happiness" and its relation to welfare economics.

Books

* * Trade Amongst Growing Economies, 1979 * * From Exploitation to Altruism. Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989. * Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, 1870–1930, Routledge, 1995. (as Editor and Contributor) * Consumption takes Time. Implications for Economic Theory, Routledge, London, 2001.

Chapters in books

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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

Other academic duties

Ian Steedman is on the editorial board of ''The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought''.http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0967-2567&linktype=5 The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

References

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