Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith is a graduate of the universities of Melbourne (B.Com) and Sydney (M.Ec, PhD). He has published in international journals, including the History of Political Economy, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and the Contributions to Political Economy. He is also the author of Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics, Routledge, London, 2011.

Dr. Smith currently serves as the co-editor of the History of Economics Review. His research interests include classical economics, monetary thought and growth theory.

Research Expertise

• History of Economic Thought
• Macroeconomics

Research Interests

• Classical economics
• Growth and distribution
• Monetary economics

Publications

Forthcoming

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2012 ‘Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach’, Review of Political Economy.

Smith M. 2012 Book Review - O’Brien, D.P. and Creedy, J. (eds) Darwin’s Clever Neighbour, George Warde Norman and his Circle, (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK), Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

2011

Book

Smith M. Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics, London: Routledge, 300p. , 2011.

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2011 Book Review - Alessandro Roncaglia, Piero Sraffa, Great Thinkers in Economics Series, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan), History of Economic Review, 53 (Winter), pp. 105-7.

Internal Working Paper/s

Smith M. 2011 ‘Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach’, Economics Working Paper Series, University of Sydney

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2011 ‘Ricardo, Tooke and Classical Monetary Economics’, Money, Finance and Ricardo Conference, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 14-15 September 2011.

Smith M. 2011 ‘William Blake on the Economic Effects of Government Fiscal Policy’, Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, RMIT University, Melbourne, 6-8 July 2011.

Smith M. 2011 ‘On the Transformation in Tooke’s Monetary Thought’, Thirteenth Annual Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 May 2011.

Seminar Paper/s

Smith M. ‘Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics’, Faculty of Economics, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan, 10 September 2011.

2010

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2010 ‘Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach’, Sraffa’s Production of Commodities 1960-2010 Conference, Rome, Italy, 2-4 December 2010

Smith M. 2010 ‘Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach’, Production and Distribution to celebrate 50 years anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities (1960) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 September, 2010.

Smith M. 2010 ‘Tooke (and Newmarch) on the Value of Gold and the Effect of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Gold Discoveries’, Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Sydney, 6-9 July 2010.

2009

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2009 'Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws', History of Political Economy, vol.41:2, pp. 343-82

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2009 ‘On the Transformation in Tooke’s Monetary Thought’, Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Freemantle, 14-17 July 2009.

Smith M. 2009 'On Tooke's explanation of agricultural price movements’, 13th Annual Conference of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought: "Technical Change and Economic Analysis", Thessaloniki, Greece, 26th April 2009

2008

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2008 'Thomas Tooke on the Bullionist Controversies', The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.15:1, pp. 49-84

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2008 'Explaining Economic Growth: An Historical Approach to Demand-Led Growth’, 7th Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists, UNSW, 9th December 2008.

Smith M. 2008 ‘On Tooke’s Explanation of Agricultural Price Movements’, Twenty-First Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Western Sydney, 9th July 2008.

2007

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2007 'A Survey of Thomas Tooke's Contributions to Political Economy', History of Economics Review, vol.46 (Summer), pp. 106-135

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2007 'Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach, 6th Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists, 10th December 2007

Smith M. 2007 'Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws, 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, Strasbourg, France, 5th July 2007;

Smith M. 2007 'Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws’ Asia-Pacific Economic and History Business Conference of 2007, University of Sydney, 14th February 2007

Seminar Paper/s

Smith M. 2007 'Thomas Tooke’s Main Legacy to Economics’, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 7th April 2007

Smith M. 2007 'Thomas Tooke on the Bullionist Controversies’, Economics Department, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 28th March 2007

2006

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2006 'On Interest and Profit: Thomas Tooke's Major Legacy to Economics', Contributions to Political Economy, vol.25:1, pp. 1-33

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2006 'Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws, Nineteenth Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Ballarat University, Victoria, 5th July 2006

2005

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2005 'From Instrument to Actor: the Changing Role of the RBA', The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, Journal Link

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2005 'Ideology and the Crisis in Current Economic Science’, Symposium on the Current State of Orthodox Economics, The Fourth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, UNSW, Sydney, 12th December 2005

Smith M. 2005 'The Life and Works of Thomas Tooke’, Eighteenth Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Sydney, NSW, 8th July 2005

Smith M. 2005 'Thomas Tooke and the Bullionist Debates, Ninth Conference of the European Society of History of Economic Thought, University of Stirling, Scotland, 10th June 2005

Seminar Paper/s

Smith M. 2005 'Thomas Tooke and the Bullionist Debates, Centro Sraffa, Rome, Italy, 16 June 2005

2004

Book Section/s

Smith M. 2004 'Thomas Tooke's legacy to Monetary Economics' History and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of P.D.Groenewegen, ed. T. Aspromourgos and J. Lodewijks, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 57-75

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2004 ‘Thomas Tooke and the Bullionist Debates’, Seventeenth Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Western Australia, 9 July 2004

2003

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2003 'On central banking "Rules":Tooke's critique of the bank charter act of 1844', Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.25, pp. 39-61

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2003 ‘Tooke’s Explanation of General Price Movements in England 1793-1856’, Sixteenth Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 19 July 2003

Seminar Paper/s

Smith M. 2003 ‘Liquidity Preference Analysis’, Centro Sraffa, Rome, Italy, 6 October (2003)

Smith M. 2003 ‘Thomas Tooke and his Legacy to Economics’, Centro Sraffa, Rome, Italy, 18 September (2003)

2002

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2002 'Tooke's Approach to Explaining Prices', European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.9:3, pp. 333-358

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2002 'On Interest and Profit: Thomas Tooke's Major Legacy to Economics’, 15th History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 1st January 2002-31st December 2002

2001

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 2001 'Endogenous Money, Interest and Prices: Tooke's Monetary Thought Revisited', Contributions to Political Economy, vol.20, pp. 31-55

Conference Paper/s

Smith M. 2001 ‘On Central Banking ‘Rules’: Tooke’s Critique of the Bank Charter Act of 1844’, Fourteenth Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Tasmania, 12 July 2001

1996

Journal Article/s

Smith M. 1996 'A Monetary Explanation of Distribution in a 'Gold Money Economy'', Contributions to Political Economy, vol.15, pp. 33-61

Book/s

Smith M. and Groenewegen P]]. (ed) 1996 'A Variorum of the First and Second Editions of the Considerations on the State of the Currency (1826) by Thomas Tooke’, [[i}}Reprints of Economic Classics, Series 2, no. 8, University of Sydney, xlvi + 141p.

1995

Book/s

Aspromourgos T. and Smith M. (ed) 1995 The Pursuit of Full Employment in the 1990s: Proceedings of a Symposium, Department of Economics, University of Sydney Printers, 189p.

Book Section/s

Smith M. ‘Commentary’ 1995 The Pursuit of Full Employment in the 1990's: Proceedings of a Symposium, ed. T. Aspromourgos and M. Smith, pp. 148-151

Internal Working Paper/s

Smith M. 1995 'A Monetary Explanation of Distribution in a Gold Money Economy', Economics Working Papers, no. 223, University of Sydney

1994

Internal Working Paper/s

Smith M. 1994 'The Monetary Thought of Thomas Tooke', Economics Working Papers, no 204, University of Sydney

1993

Book Section/s

Smith M. and Mahoney G. 1993 ‘Macroeconomic Stabilisation Policy’, The Australian economy under Labor, ed. G. Mahoney, St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, Ch 3, pp. 33-50.