Dr Leo Steeds

  • Research Associate (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Leo Steeds is Research Associate on the Adam Smith 300 project, and is based in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow.  He holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick, and a BA Hons in Music from the University of Oxford.

His research centres around environmental ideas in the history of political and economic thought, and is particularly focused on the work of Adam Smith.  Alongside this, he maintains an active interest in contemporary environmental politics, especially the concept of the Anthropocene, and the increasing prominence of economic concepts in environmental governance.

He is an Associate Editor of the Adam Smith Review.

Research interests

Research groups

  • Politics

Publications

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2024

Steeds, L. (2024) Adam Smith as ecological economist. In: Schincariol, V. E. (ed.) Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought: Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics. Routledge: London, pp. 29-48. ISBN 9781032451091 (doi: 10.4324/9781003375425-3)

Steeds, L. (2024) On land, life, and labour: abundance and scarcity in Locke, Smith, and Ricardo. Constellations, 31(2), pp. 189-203. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12675)

2023

Steeds, L. (2023) Land as capital: a genealogy through the birth and development of economic thought. In: Anderl, F. (ed.) Epistemologies of Land. Rowman and Littlefield International. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Steeds, L. (2022) The social ecology of Adam Smith: reconsidering the intellectual foundations of political economy. New Political Economy, 27(1), pp. 132-145. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1926956)

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Articles

Steeds, L. (2024) On land, life, and labour: abundance and scarcity in Locke, Smith, and Ricardo. Constellations, 31(2), pp. 189-203. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12675)

Steeds, L. (2022) The social ecology of Adam Smith: reconsidering the intellectual foundations of political economy. New Political Economy, 27(1), pp. 132-145. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1926956)

Book Sections

Steeds, L. (2024) Adam Smith as ecological economist. In: Schincariol, V. E. (ed.) Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought: Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics. Routledge: London, pp. 29-48. ISBN 9781032451091 (doi: 10.4324/9781003375425-3)

Steeds, L. (2023) Land as capital: a genealogy through the birth and development of economic thought. In: Anderl, F. (ed.) Epistemologies of Land. Rowman and Littlefield International. (Accepted for Publication)

This list was generated on Sun Dec 22 00:48:38 2024 GMT.