- Denis Patrick O'Brien
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Denis Patrick O'Brien (born 1939, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England) is an English economist who has worked in industrial economics and the history of economic thought.
Major publications
- Information Agreements, Competition and Efficiency (with D. Swann), 1969.
- J.R. McCulloch, A Study in Classical Economics, 1970.
- Competition in British Industry (with D. Swann, P. Maunder, W.S. Howe), 1974.
- The Classical Economists, 1975 (revised ed., 2004).
- Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth (with W.S. Howe, D.M. Wright, R.J. O'Brien), 1979.
- Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach (with A.C. Darnell), 1982.
- Lionel Robbins, 1988.
- Thomas Joplin and Classical Economics, 1993.
- The Development of Monetary Economics: A Modern Perspective on Monetary Controversies, 2007.
Edited volumes:
- The Correspondence of Lord Overstone (3 vols.), 1971.
- Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain (ed. and contrib., with J. Presley), 1981.
- Economic Analysis in Historical Perspective (with J. Creedy), 1984.
- Foundations of Monetary Economics (6 vols.), 1994.
- Collected Works of J.R. McCulloch (8 vols.)
- The Foundations of Business Cycle Theory (3 vols.), 1997.
- A History of Taxation, (8 vols.), 1999.
Secondary sources
- Creedy, John (2001) - "D.P. O'Brien's contribution to the history of economic analysis", in Historians of Economics and Economic Thought. The Construction of Disciplinary Memory, ed. Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels.
- M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.
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