Professor James Foreman-Peck

Articles

• Foreman-Peck, J. and Hannah, L. 2024. Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871-81. The Economic History Review (10.1111/ehr.13392)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2023. Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects. Research Policy 52(7), article number: 104808. (10.1016/j.respol.2023.104808)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2022. R&D subsidies and productivity in eastern European countries. Economic Systems 46(2), article number: 100978. (10.1016/j.ecosys.2022.100978)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2020. Fertility versus productivity: a model of growth with evolutionary equilibria. Journal of Population Economics 34, pp. 1073-1104. (10.1007/s00148-020-00813-2)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2020. Devolving fiscal policy: migration and tax yields. Regional Studies 54(3), pp. 308-317. (10.1080/00343404.2019.1602256)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2020. Welsh taxes. Welsh Economic Review 27, pp. 18-24. (10.18573/wer.254)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2019. Response to Edwards and Ogilvie. Economic History Review 72(4), pp. 1477-1450. (10.1111/ehr.12819)
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2019. An American and European technological difference: the early motor car power source. Business History 61(7), pp. 1158-1174. (10.1080/00076791.2019.1590338)
• Foreman-Peck, J., Raff, D. and Scott, P. 2019. Introduction: Leslie Hannah and business history in his time. Business History 61(7), pp. 1091-1107. (10.1080/00076791.2019.1642328)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2018. Late marriage as a contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England. Economic History Review 71(4), pp. 1073-1099. (10.1111/ehr.12651)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2015. Firm-level evidence for the language investment effect on SME Exporters. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 62(4), pp. 351-377.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2015. The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910. Economic History Review 68(3), pp. 962-984. (10.1111/ehr.12088)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Nicholls, T. 2015. Inter-regional mobility of entrepreneurial SMEs. Annals of Regional Science 54(1), pp. 57-87. (10.1007/s00168-014-0646-9)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2014. Great recessions compared. Investigaciones de Historia Economica 10(2), pp. 92-103. (10.1016/j.ihe.2014.03.009)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Hannah, L. 2014. Ownership dispersion and listing rules in companies large and small: a reply. Business History 56(3), pp. 509-516. (10.1080/00076791.2013.867331)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2014. Cultures of female entrepreneurship. International Review of entrepreneurship 12(1), pp. 1-22.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Nicholls, T. 2013. SME takeovers as a contributor to regional productivity gaps. Small Business Economics 41(2), pp. 359-378. (10.1007/s11187-012-9444-x)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2013. Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy. Small Business Economics 41(1), pp. 55-70. (10.1007/s11187-012-9426-z)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2013. The strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23(1), pp. 163-187. (10.1007/s00191-011-0239-z)
• Battilosi, S., Escario, R. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2013. Fiscal policy response to cycles under two regimes: Spain 1950-1998. Cliometrica 7(3), pp. 267-294. (10.1007/s11698-012-0089-4)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2013. Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control. Business History 55(4), pp. 543-564. (10.1080/00076791.2012.741970)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2012. Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914. Economic History Review 65(4), pp. 1217-1238. (10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00637.x)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2011. The Western European marriage pattern and economic development. Explorations in Economic History 48(2), pp. 292-309. (10.1016/j.eeh.2011.01.002)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Gratuitous violence and the rational offender model. International Review of Law and Economics 30(2), pp. 160-172. (10.1016/j.irle.2010.03.003)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Lungu, L. 2009. Fiscal devolution and dependency. Applied Economics 41(7), pp. 815-828. (10.1080/00036840601019182)
• Abbas, Q. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2008. The Mincer Human Capital Model in Pakistan: Implications for Education Policy. South Asia Economic Journal 9(2), pp. 435-462. (10.1177/139156140800900209)
• Abbas, Q. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2008. Human Capital and Economic Growth: Pakistan 1960-2003. Lahore Journal of Economics 13(1), pp. 1-27.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2008. Larry Neal: The economics of Europe and the European Union - 416p, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 [Book review]. Economic History Review 61(3), pp. 748-749. (10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00436_18.x)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2007. Better education and skills must be our aim to make a more competitive Wales [Newspaper Article]. Western Mail
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Hughes Hallett, A. and Ma, Y. 2007. Trade Wars and the Slump. European Review of Economic History 11(1), pp. 73-98. (10.1017/S1361491606001882)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2007. Costing Babel: The contribution of language skills to exporting and productivity. Quarterly Economic Bulletin 28(4), pp. 20-28.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2007. European Historical Economics and Globalisation. The Journal of Philosophical Economics 1(1), pp. 22-52.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. Brinley Thomas, Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 362 pp. (second edition, 1973, xxxi + 498 pp.) [Book Review]. EH.net, pp. n/a.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Makepeace, G. H. and Morgan, B. 2006. Growth and profitability of small and medium-sized enterprises: Some Welsh evidence. Regional Studies 40(4), pp. 307-319. (10.1080/00343400600725160)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Makepeace, G. H. and Morgan, B. 2006. Growth drivers of small and medium size enterprises: Some Welsh evidence. Regional Studies 40(4), pp. 307-319.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Foreman-Peck, L. 2006. Should Schools be Smaller? The Size-Performance Relationship for Welsh Schools. Economics of Education Review 25(2), pp. 157-171. (10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.01.004)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. Public services and private finance. Quarterly Economic Bulletin 27, pp. 23-29.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Gijs Mom, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age [Book review]. Journal of Transport History 26(1), pp. 129-131. (10.7227/TJTH.26.1.9)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Teaching the free market. Prospero: A Journal of New Thinking in Philosophy for Education 11, pp. 26-32.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Size matters. Agenda: The Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 56-58.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Lungu, L. 2005. Irish luck. Agenda : The journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 16-18.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Smith, J. A. 2005. Business and social mobility into the British elite 1870-1914. Journal of European Economic History 33(3), pp. 485-518.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2004. How privatisation has changed Britain. BBC News 2004(3 Dec)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2004. Spontaneous Disorder? A Very Short History of British Vocational Education and Training, 1563-1973. Policy Futures in Education 2(1), pp. 72-101.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2003. Free the captives (public sector commercial insurance). Public Finance 14, pp. 30-31.
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2003. Review of 'The rise and fall of state-owned enterprise in the Western World', editor P. A. Toninelli [Book Review]. Journal of Economic Literature 41(3), pp. 931-932. (10.1257/002205103322436232)
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2003. Improving our living standards. Agenda 5(Summer), pp. 62-65.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2002. Discussion on the paper by M. Stone, 'How not to measure the efficiency of public services (and how one might)'. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) 165(3), pp. 425-426. (10.1111/1467-985x.02462)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Bowden, S. and Richardson, T. 2001. The Post-War Productivity Failure: Insights from Oxford (Cowley). Business History 43(3), pp. 54-78. (10.1080/713999230)

Book sections

• Foreman-Peck, J. 2022. Public-private partnerships in Britain: interpreting recent experience. In: Wright, M. et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 426-448., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198837367.001.0001)
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Hannah, L. 2021. Underlying sources of growth: institutions and the state. In: Broadberry, S. and Fukao, K. eds. The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World Volume 2: 1870 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, pp. 418-441., (10.1017/9781316671603.016)
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2020. International trade since 1914. In: Hamilton, J. H. ed. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.546)
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2019. Economic-demographic interactions in European long-run growth. In: Diebolt, C. and Haupert, M. eds. Handbook of Cliometrics. Cham: Springer, (10.1007/978-3-030-00181-0_17)
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2019. Economic-demographic interactions in the European long run growth. In: Diebolt, C. and Haupert, M. eds. Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, pp. 1-25., (10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_17-2)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2016. UK corporate law and corporate governance before 1914: a re-interpretation. In: Hollow, M., Akinbami, F. and Michie, R. eds. Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System: Critical Perspectives on the Evolution of American and British Banking. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 183-213., (10.4337/9781783471331)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2015. Economic-demographic interactions in long-run growth. In: Diebolt, C. and Haupert, M. eds. Handbook of Cliometrics., Vol. III. Berlin: Springer, pp. 237-261., (10.1007/978-3-642-40406-1_17)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2014. European industrial policies in the post-war boom: 'planning the economic miracle'. In: Grabas, C. and Nützenadel, A. eds. Industrial Policy in Europe after 1945: Wealth, Power and Economic Development in the Cold War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 13-47.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Pepelasis, I. S. 2013. Entrepreneurs and businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century. In: Tortella, G. and Quiroga, G. eds. Entrepreneurship and Growth: An International Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-68.
• Battilossi, S., Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Kling, G. 2010. Business cycles and economic policy, 1945-2007. In: Broadberry, S. and O'Rourke, K. H. eds. Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe : 1870 to the Present., Vol. 2. Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 360-389.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2010. Entrepreneurial culture or institutions? A twentieth century resolution. In: García-Ruiz, J. L. and Toninelli, P. A. eds. The determinants of entrepreneurship: leadership, culture, institutions. Perspectives in economic and social history Vol. 7. London: Pickering and Chatto, pp. 125-142.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2009. Preface. In: Dormois, J. ed. La Défense du Travail National ? : l’incidence du Protectionnisme sur l’industrie en Europe (1870-1914). Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. A model of later nineteenth century European economic development. In: Dormois, J. and Lains, P. eds. Classical Trade Protectionism 1815-1914: Fortress Europe. Routledge Explorations in Economic History Taylor & Francis/Routledge
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Spending and saving on education. In: David, R. ed. Minority Government - by Selective Co-operation: Monitoring the National Assembly May - July 2005. Monitoring the National Assembly Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 23-26.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Measuring historical entrepreneurship. In: Cassis, Y. and Minoglou, I. eds. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-110.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2004. The UK and the Euro: politics versus economics in a long-run perspective. In: Ljungberg, J. ed. The Price of the Euro. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-120.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2003. Gottlieb Daimler. In: Mokyr, J. ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Davis, C. M. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2003. The Russian transition through the historical looking glass: gradual versus abrupt decontrol of economic systems. In: David, P. A. and Thomas, M. eds. The Economic Future in Historical Perspective. British Academy Centenary Monographs Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 231-266.
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2003. Storbritannien och euro: politik mot ekonomi i ett långsiktigt perspektiv [The UK and the Euro: politics versus economics in a long-run perspective]. In: Ljungberg, J. ed. Eurons pris: Europeiska forskare om EMU. Stockholm: Agora, pp. 130-162.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2003. Long distance trade since 1914. In: Mokyr, J. ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2002. The path dependence of technological trajectories: the battery electric vehicle. In: Tissot, L. and Veyrassat, B. eds. Technological Trajectories, Markets, Institutions. Industrialized Countries, 19th-20th Centuries. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 203-226.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2002. The debt constraint on British economic policy and performance in the 1920s. In: Oliver, M. J. ed. Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 101-118.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Boccaletti, E. 2001. French and British businessmen in the nineteenth century. In: Chassaigne, P. and Dockrill, M. L. eds. Anglo-French Relations 1898-1998: From Fashoda to Jospin. Studies in Military and Strategic History Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 11-33.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2001. Challenges to the economic system in the Twentieth Century. In: Hudson, P. ed. Living Economic and Social History: Historians Explain their Interest in and the Nature of their Subject. Glasgow: Economic History Society

Conferences

• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2004. Marriage and economic development. Presented at: Berlin Colloquium on Quantitative Economic History, Berlin, Germany, 22-24 September.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Lungu, L. 2004. A supply-side regional econometric model of Wales. Presented at: EcoMod2004: International Conference on Policy Modeling, Paris, France, 30 June - 2 July, 2004.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Hughes Hallett, A. and Ma, Y. 2002. Trade wars and the slump. Presented at: Institute for International Integration Studies. The Political Economy of Globalisation: Can the Past Inform the Present?, Dublin, Ireland, 29-31 August 2002.

Monographs

• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2015. UK corporate law and corporate governance before 1914: a re-interpretation. Project Report. [Online]. European Historical Economics Society. Available at: http://www.ehes.org/working_papers.html
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2014. Firm-level evidence for the language investment effect on SME exporters. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2014. The rise of the English economy 1300-1900: a lasting response to demographic shocks. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Zhou, P. 2014. Cultures of female entrepreneurship. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Nicholls, T. 2012. Peripherality and the impact of SME takeovers. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2012. Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Hannah, L. 2011. Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2010. The strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Batillossi, S., Escario, R. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2010. Economic policy and output volatility in Spain, 1950-1998: Was fiscal policy destabilizing?. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/sites/default/files/E2010_5.pdf
• Battilossi, S., Escario, R. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2010. Economic policy and output volatility in Spain, 1950–1998: Was fiscal policy destabilizing?. Working paper. Cardiff, UK: Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. Available at: http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/sites/default/files/E2010_5.pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2009. The Western European marriage pattern and economic development. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Moore, S. 2009. Gratuitous violence and the rational offender model. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Abbasa, Q. and Foreman-Peck, J. 2007. Human capital and economic growth: Pakistan, 1960-2003. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Abbasa, Q. and Foreman-Peck, J. 2007. The Mincer human capital model in Pakistan: implications for education policy. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2007. Valuing the Wales Millennium Centre. Working paper. Cardiff: Welsh Institute for Research and Economic Development. Available at: http://www.business.cardiff.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wmc_full_report[1].pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2007. Technological mutations and Henry Ford. Discussion Paper. Cardiff: Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development. Available at: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/digitalfordism/fordism_materials/Peck.pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. Lessons from Italian monetary unification. Working paper. Osterreichische Nationalbank. Available at: http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/1/1617/papers/ForemanPeck.pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. Industrial policy in Europe in the 20th century. Working paper. European Investment Bank.
• Foreman-Peck, J. and Lungu, L. 2005. Fiscal devolution and dependency. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Foreman-Peck, J. 2005. Lessons from Italian monetary unification. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Bulkley, G. and Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2005. Valuation and appraisal techniques for DTI policies and projects: A report to the Department of Trade and Industry. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wired/dti_evaluation_report_2005.pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Smith, J. 2003. Business and social mobility into the British elite 1870-1914. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff Business School. Available at: http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wired/Business_and_Social_Mobility_into_the_British_Elite-1870-1914.pdf
• Foreman-Peck, J. S., Makepeace, G. H. and Morgan, B. 2003. Growth drivers of small and medium size enterprises: Some Welsh evidence. Technical Report.

• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Nicholls, T. 2013. SME takeovers as a contributor to regional productivity gaps. Small Business Economics 41(2), pp. 359-378. (10.1007/s11187-012-9444-x)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2013. Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy. Small Business Economics 41(1), pp. 55-70. (10.1007/s11187-012-9426-z)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Zhou, P. 2013. The strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23(1), pp. 163-187. (10.1007/s00191-011-0239-z)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2013. Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control. Business History 55(4), pp. 543-564. (10.1080/00076791.2012.741970)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Hannah, L. 2012. Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914. Economic History Review 65(4), pp. 1217-1238. (10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00637.x)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2011. The Western European marriage pattern and economic development. Explorations in Economic History 48(2), pp. 292-309. (10.1016/j.eeh.2011.01.002)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Moore, S. C. 2010. Gratuitous violence and the rational offender model. International Review of Law and Economics 30(2), pp. 160-172. (10.1016/j.irle.2010.03.003)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Lungu, L. 2009. Fiscal devolution and dependency. Applied Economics 41(7), pp. 815-828. (10.1080/00036840601019182)
• Foreman-Peck, J. S. and Foreman-Peck, L. 2006. Should Schools be Smaller? The Size-Performance Relationship for Welsh Schools. Economics of Education Review 25(2), pp. 157-171. (10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.01.004)