Publications

Books

Offshored: The Changing Global Economy as seen from a Barge. New York: Knopf, forthcoming. 

The First Serious Optimist: A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Winner of the Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize from the History and Economics Society

Selected Reviews: Alternatives Economiques; “La librairie de l’éco”; Contributions to Political EconomyEconomic History Review; Finance and Development; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; History of Economic Ideas; Journal of Consumer PolicyJournal of Economic LiteratureLaw and Society; Open Magazine; Public ChoiceThe Times Literary SupplementThe Enlightened Economist

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

"Imperial Schemes: Empire and the British Business-State," Enterprise & Society 23, no. 4 (December 2022): 928-937.

“Measuring the Cost of Pollution: Economic Life, Economic Theory and the Origins of Environmental Economics,” Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.

“Historical Network Analysis” in John Scott, Peter Carrington, John McLevey, eds., SAGE Handbook on Social Network Analysis (London: Sage Publishers, 2023).

Meat and Economic Expertise in the British Imperial State During World War I,” The Historical Journal 62, no. 1 (March 2019): 171-194.

Reviews

"Narrating the Economy through the Environment" (Review Essay), Enterprise and Society, forthcoming in print.

Review of Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll, History of European Ideas, forthcoming in print.

Reconsidering the History of Political Economy” (Review Essay), Modern Intellectual History, forthcoming in print.

Review of A.C. Pigou and the Marshallian Thought Style by Karen Knight, History of Political Economy 53, no. 1 (February 2021): 166-167. 

Other Selected Publications

"Reading A.C. Pigou," Royal Economic Society Quarterly Newsletter, October 2022.

Imperial Legacies and World Heritage,” Visualizing Climate and Loss, Center for History and Economics, 2021.

"We Need to Revisit the Idea of Pigou Wealth Tax," Financial Times, June 8, 2020.

with Charles S. Maier, "Responding to COVID-19: Think through the Analogy of War," Safra Center COVID-19 Rapid Response White Paper 10 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Safra Center, April 2020), https://ethics.harvard.edu/war-analogy.

“Economists at Cambridge,” Visualizing Historical Networks, 2013, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/visualizing/graphing/economists.html.