Overview
I specialise in a broad range of economic policies and economic history. My work has covered problems in economic growth with particular reference to human capital and technology, entrepreneurship and SMEs, fiscal devolution and urban and regional economic policy. I have advised a wide variety of policy making bodies, including Plaid Cymru, the UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills and the Welsh Government.
I am Director of the Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development and a former President of the European Historical Economics Society. I was awarded my PhD at the London School of Economics.and have been Economic Adviser at H M Treasury concerned with micro-economic policy issues, particularly public service delivery and procurement.
Previous posts include Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. My books include A History of the World Economy: International Economic Relations since 1850, Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820-1990 (with R Millward) and most recently, European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth Century Experience (edited with G Federico).
Publication
2024
- 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)
2023
- 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)
2022
- 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 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)
2021
- 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)
2020
- 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. 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. and Zhou, P. 2020. Welsh taxes. Welsh Economic Review 27, pp. 18-24. (10.18573/wer.254)
2019
- 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. 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)
2018
- 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)
2016
- 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)
2015
- 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. 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. 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
2014
- 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. 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 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. and Zhou, P. 2014. Cultures of female entrepreneurship. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- 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 Zhou, P. 2014. Cultures of female entrepreneurship. International Review of entrepreneurship 12(1), pp. 1-22.
2013
- 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 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.
- 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)
2012
- 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. 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.
2011
- 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. 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)
2010
- 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. 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)
- 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.
2009
- 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.
- 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. and Lungu, L. 2009. Fiscal devolution and dependency. Applied Economics 41(7), pp. 815-828. (10.1080/00036840601019182)
2008
- 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)
2007
- 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. 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. 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
2006
- 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. 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. Public services and private finance. Quarterly Economic Bulletin 27, pp. 23-29.
- Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2006. Industrial policy in Europe in the 20th century. Working paper. European Investment Bank.
- 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
2005
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
2004
- Foreman-Peck, J. S. 2004. How privatisation has changed Britain. BBC News 2004(3 Dec)
- 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. 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. 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. 2004. Spontaneous Disorder? A Very Short History of British Vocational Education and Training, 1563-1973. Policy Futures in Education 2(1), pp. 72-101.
2003
- 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. 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. Improving our living standards. Agenda 5(Summer), pp. 62-65.
- 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. 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
2002
- 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.
- 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. 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)
2001
- 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., 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)
- 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
Adrannau llyfrau
- 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
Cynadleddau
- 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.
Erthyglau
- 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)
Monograffau
- 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)
Research
Primary research interests
- Economic growth - especially the contribution of human capital and technology
- Entrepreneurship
- Fiscal devolution
- Urban and regional economic policy
PhD supervision research interests
- Human capital
- Entrepreneurship
- SMEs
James has led the following projects
The impact of school sixth form size on educational attainment of pupils at Key Stage 5, 2016 Welsh Government https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2019-07/161123-impact-school-sixth-form-size-educational-attainment-key-stage-5-report-en.pdf
Research to quantify the costs to the UK of language deficiencies as a barrier to UK engagement in exporting,
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-costs-to-the-uk-of-language-deficiencies-as-a-barrier-to-uk-engagement-in-exporting
30 June 2013 to 31 January 2014
Sponsored by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
A cost benefit analysis of school consolidation:A Report To Gwynedd County Council 2011
1 March 2011 to 29 April 2011
Sponsored by Cyngor Gwynedd Council
Teaching
Teaching commitments
Applied Macroeconomics and Finance BS3570,British Economy BS2547,Business History BS3548,Economics of Public Policy BST166,Issues in Public Policy BST274
Biography
In the Pandemic year 2020 on 4th March I gave evidence to the Welsh Parliament Finance Committee, based upon my recent Regional Studies paper, about the possible consequences of changing the Welsh Rate of Income Tax. https://record.assembly.wales/Committee/5988.
In August 2020 the completed Report for Plaid Cymru was accepted.
During September 2020 I submitted my assessment for Wales of the UK Internal Market bill to the Scottish Government Finance and Constitution Committee: https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/116034.aspx
On Christmas Eve the Journal of Population Economics published my research explaining long term economic growth in England.