O'Brien, D(enis) P(atrick)

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O'BRIEN, D(enis) P(atrick)

O'BRIEN, D(enis) P(atrick). British, b. 1939. Genres: Economics. Career: Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, assistant lecturer, lecturer, reader in economics, 1963-72; University of Durham, England, professor of economics, 1972-97, emeritus, 1998-. Publications: (with D. Swann) Information Agreements, Competition, and Efficiency, 1968; J.R. McCulloch: A Study in Classical Economics, 1970; Correspondence of Lord Overstone, 3 vols., 1971; (with D. Swann and others) Competition in British Industry, 1974; (ed.) J.R. McCulloch: Treatise on Taxation, 1975; The Classical Economists, 1975; (with others) Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth, 1979; (ed. and contrib., with J.R. Presley) Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain, 1981; (with A.C. Darnell) Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach, 1982; (ed. and contrib., with J. Creedy) Economic Analysis in Historical Perspective, 1984; Lionel Robbins, 1988; Thomas Joplin and Classical Macroeconomics: A Re-Appraisal of Classical Monetary Thought, 1993; (ed.) Foundations of Monetary Economics, 6 vols., 1994; Methodology, Money and the Firm: The Collected Essays of D.P. O'Brien, 2 vols., 1994. Address: Department of Politics, University of Durham, 23-6 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HY, England. Online address: D.P.O'[email protected]