He has published articles on literature and economics, with co-author Margueritte Murphy, on the history of economics, and a book, Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859 (Routledge Press, 2007). He is currently working on a study of the relationships between British political economy and travel writing in the first half of the nineteenth century.