Ian Steedman (born 1941, London)
His work
Steedman has been recognised as one of the leading
Neo-Ricardianism economic theorists with work in the areas overlapping with those of
Karl Marx,
Piero Sraffa,
Alfred Marshall, Jevons and
Philip Wicksteed. He has also made contributions to economic theory on time, international trade, capital theory and growth and distribution.
[http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/Economic-Theory-and-Economic-Thought-isbn9780415465113 Economic Theory and Economic Thought, Essays in honour of Ian Steedman Edited by John Vint, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori, Paul Samuelson Routledge 2009]
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.[http://www.wtf.org.uk/ William Temple Foundation]
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]
Festschrift
Vint J., Metcalfe J.S., Kurz H.D., Salvadori N., and Samuelson P.A. (2009). Economic theory and economic thought: Essays in honour of Ian Steedman. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Books
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Trade Amongst Growing Economies, 1979
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From Exploitation to Altruism. Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989.
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Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, 1870–1930, Routledge, 1995. (as Editor and Contributor)
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Consumption takes Time. Implications for Economic Theory, Routledge, London, 2001.
Chapters in books
Papers
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Economic Theory and Intrinsically Non-Autonomous Preferences and Beliefs. Quaderni Fondazione Feltrinelli. (Proceedings of the Seminar in Economic Methodology), No. 7/8, 1980.
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(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.
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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.
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Trade interest versus class interest. Economia Politica vol. 3, 1986.
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The Economic Journal and Socialism, 1890 to 1920, (in) J.D. Hey and D. Winch (eds.), A Century of Economics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
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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.
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'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.
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John Carruthers: A Victorian market socialist, European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 1994.
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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.
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Welfare Economics and Robinson Crusoe the Producer, Metroeconomica, 2000, 51(2), 151–167.
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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.
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British economists and philosophers on Marx's value theory, 1920–1925. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004.
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Philip Henry Wicksteed, entry in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
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On not traducing economics. (In) J. Atherton and H. Skinner (eds.), Through the Eye of a Needle, Epworth Press, 2007
