Ian Steedman

Ian Steedman (* 1941 in London ) is an English economist emeritus. Professor Manchester Metropolitan University and since 2009 Honorary Member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

He deals with the economic theory and the history of economic thought. His work Marx after Sraffa (1971 ) and his numerous journal articles have Marx's theory illuminated from a theoretical point of Sraffa.

In addition, Steedman has written books about international trade. Together with Stan Metcalfe, he showed that the Heckscher - Ohlin - Samuelson theorem can not be maintained, as soon as you allow heterogeneous goods.

In several essays Steedman analyzed the theory of capital outstanding economist William Stanley Jevons and as Friedrich August Hayek and proved that their theories are true only under very special conditions.

Steedman examined how Erik Robert Lindahl, Hayek, Kenneth Arrow, Debreu and Malinvaud deal in their theoretical representations with the concept of time. In his book on time and consumer theory Steedman discovered the important contribution of Hermann Heinrich Gossen again.

Publications

• Marx After Sraffa. Verso Books, 1981, ISBN 0-86091-747-9. Supplement.
• Trade amongst Growing Economies. Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-521-22671-6.
• Socialism and Marginalism in Economics from 1870 to 1930. Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-415-13079-4.
• Consumption Takes Time: Implications for Economic Theory. Routledge, new edition 2006, ISBN 0-415-40638-2.
• Publications by Ian Steedman.
• Discussion Papers in Economics.
• Long Run Demand for Labour in the Consumer Good Industry. Metroeconomica, Vol 57, No. 2, pp. 158-164, May 2006.