Michael McLure is a Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Western Australia. His research has focused on the history of economic thought in Italy.  In that regard, he co-edited the English translation of Pareto’s Manual of Political Economy: A Critical and Variorum Edition (Oxford University Press, 2014, 2020); authored The Paretian School and Italian Fiscal Sociology (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007); and, in October 2020, he was awarded the Premio Galileo Galilei by the Fondazione Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei dei Rotary Club Italiani for his contribution to the history of Italian economics.  Michael's research also extends to the economics of A. C. Pigou and the Cambridge School.  From 2007 to 2011 Michael co-edited the History of Economics Review. In November 2021 he was presented with the Austin Holmes Award from the WA Branch of the Economic Society of Australia for his contribution to economics in Wetsern Australia.   

Michael McLure is the Co-convenor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Network and he is a past President of the Australian Economic Society, WA Branch.

Michael’s long term projects are the intellectual histories of Vilfredo Pareto and A. C. Pigou.

Collaborations with Other Institutions

In 2009 Michael visited: (i) Aldo Montesano (Università Bocconi) to work on Paretian elements of this project (mainly concerning a translation of Pareto’s Manuale di Economia Politica) and (ii) Cambridge University archives to access the Pigou papers.

History of Economic Ideas, ECON3310

Primary research interest: the history of economic thought.