Dr Hugh Goodacre

Biography

Hugh Goodacre lectures at UCL in the History of Economic Thought. His research interest is the influence of colonialism on economic thought. He has in the past worked at the British Library and has taught in a number of colleges and universities, and is currently Director of the Institute for Independence Studies, an independent academic and campaigning organisation.

Professional career and qualifications

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Conferences

Teaching

Publications

Publications

Selected Publications

• The economic thought of William Petty: exploring the colonialist roots of economics. London and New York: Routledge. 2018.
• “The William Petty problem and the Whig history of economics”. Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol. 38, Issue No. 3. May 2014.
• “Technological progress and economic analysis from Petty to Smith”. European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 17, Issue No. 5. pp. 1149-1168. December 2010. [Special issue on technology and economics with keynote article by Robert Solow.]
• “Limited liability and the wealth of ‘uncivilised nations’: Adam Smith and the limits to the European Enlightenment”. Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol. 34, Issue No. 5. pp. 857-67. September 2010.
• “Economics, geography and colonialism in the writings of William Petty”. In Arena, Richard, Dow, Sheila, and Klaes, Matthias, eds Open Economics: economics in relation to other disciplines. London and New York: Routledge. 2009. pp. 233-46.
• “Colonialism, displacement and cannibalism in early modern economic thought”. In S Balfour, Robert, ed. 2010. Culture, capital and representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Sponsored by the Institute for Commonwealth Studies, and the Jane Austen Society.
•  “William Petty and early colonial roots of development economics”. In Jomo, Kwame Sundaram, ed., 2005. Pioneers of Economic Development. New Delhi: Tulika Books; London: Zed Press. pp. 10-30. ISBN: 1 84277 644 4 hb 1 84277 645 2 pb. [Also published in Vietnamese as Kinh tê hoc phåt triên cåc nha kinh têe vi dai vê phat triên, 2007, translated by Trån Doàn Lâm. Hanoi: Nhà Xuất Bån Thế Giối.]
• “Classical political economy”. In B. Fine and A. Saad-Filho, eds, 2012. Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 53-59.