Associate Professor Ryan Walter
Lecturer in European Enlightenment Studies
School of Political Science and International Studies
Publications
Books
Walter, Ryan (2021). Before method and models: the political economy of Malthus and Ricardo. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197603055.001.0001
Walter, Ryan (2011). A critical history of the economy: on the birth of the national and international economies. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203806111
Book Chapters
Walter, Ryan (2024). From counsellor to theorist, or the real history of realism: interest in England c. 1640-80. Rise of the international: international relations meets history. (pp. 113-130) edited by Richard Devetak and Tim Dunne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192871640.003.0006
Walter, Ryan (2022). Blood for Ghost Malthus: Assessing Angelo Messedaglia's Criticisms of Robert Malthus's Principle of Population. La Scienza Come Dovere Civile: Due Scritti di Angelo Messedaglia. (pp. 1-16) edited by Sergio Noto. Firenze, Italy: Olschki.
Walter, Ryan (2020). Malthus’s principle of population in Britain: restatement and antiquation. Malthus across nations: the reception of Thomas Robert Malthus in Europe, America and Japan. (pp. 18-52) edited by Gilbert Faccarello, Masashi Izumo and Hiromi Morishita. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788977579.00006
Walter, Ryan (2014). Economic management, rhetorical tactics, and the cost of promises. Studies in Australian political rhetoric. (pp. 33-62) edited by John Uhr and Ryan Walter. Canberra A.C.T., Australia: ANU E Press.
Journal Articles
Walter, Ryan (2023). Linguagem, contexto e história do pensamento econômico: antes da economia ter sua própria língua. História Econômica e História de Empresas, 26 (2), 523-540. doi: 10.29182/hehe.v26i2.931
Walter, Ryan (2023). Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests. History of European Ideas, 49 (4), 778-780. doi: 10.1080/01916599.2023.2196310
Walter, Ryan (2020). Malthus's sacred history: outflanking civil history in the late Enlightenment. Rethinking History, 24 (3-4), 481-502. doi: 10.1080/13642529.2020.1822662
Walter, Ryan (2020). Conservative politics and laissez-faire economics?: The Burke-Smith problem revisited. Critical Historical Studies, 7 (2), 271-295. doi: 10.1086/710696
Kearns, David and Walter, Ryan (2020). Office, political theory, and the political theorist. The Historical Journal, 63 (2), 317-337. doi: 10.1017/s0018246x19000220
Walter, Ryan (2019). Defending political theory after Burke: Stewart's intellectual disciplines and the demotion of practice. Journal of the History of Ideas, 80 (3), 387-408. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0028
Walter, Ryan (2019). The Bullion Controversy and the history of political thought: experience, innovation and theory. Intellectual History Review, 29 (3), 467-488. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2018.1526452
Walter, Ryan (2018). In search of the two-handed economist: ideology, methodology and marketing in economics. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 29 (3), 367-371. doi: 10.1177/1035304618781655
Walter, Ryan (2018). The enthusiasm of David Ricardo. Modern Intellectual History, 15 (2), 1-29. doi: 10.1017/S1479244316000044
Walter, Ryan (2017). Rhetoric or deliberation? The case for rhetorical political analysis. Political Studies, 65 (2), 300-315. doi: 10.1177/0032321716651898
Walter, Ryan (2016). Adam Smith’s free trade casuistry. Global Intellectual History, 1 (1), 61-82. doi: 10.1080/23801883.2016.1228180
Walter, Ryan (2016). From theory to history: Keith Tribe’s Land, labour and economic discourse and The economy of the word. Economy and Society, 45 (3-4), 537-546. doi: 10.1080/03085147.2016.1240517
Devetak, Richard and Walter, Ryan (2016). The critical theorist's labour: empirical or philosophical historiography for international relations?. Globalizations, 13 (5), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1133527
Walter, Ryan (2016). Utilitarianism and Malthus' virtue ethics: respectable, virtuous and happy. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 23 (1), 159-164. doi: 10.1080/09672567.2015.1074824
Walter, Ryan (2015). Slingsby Bethel's Analysis of State Interests. History of European Ideas, 41 (4), 489-506. doi: 10.1080/01916599.2014.926659
Walter, Ryan and Uhr, John (2015). The Rhetorical Standards of Public Reason in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (2), 248-262. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12100
Walter, Ryan (2015). A Review of “Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future”. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22 (1), 135-140. doi: 10.1080/09672567.2014.924701
Walter, Ryan and Uhr, John (2013). Budget talk: rhetorical constraints and contests. Australian Journal of Political Science, 48 (4), 431-444. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2013.837426
Walter, Ryan (2013). Foundations of modern international thought. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 20 (3), 513-517. doi: 10.1080/09672567.2013.795359
Walter, Ryan (2012). Review of Iara Vigo de Lima’s Foucault’s archaeology of political economy. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5 (1), 106-111.
Walter, Ryan (2011). States and markets. Review of International Studies, 37 (2), 691-713. doi: 10.1017/S026021051000094X
Walter, Ryan (2011). Hobbes, liberalism, and political technique. European legacy-toward new paradigms, 16 (1), 53-69. doi: 10.1080/10848770.2011.543374
Walter, Ryan (2011). Politics and economics: Beyond the contamination thesis. Contemporary Political Theory, 10 (4), 444-462. doi: 10.1057/cpt.2010.35
Walter, Ryan (2011). The Analysis of Interest and the History of Economic Thought. Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28 (2), 129-147. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0090
Walter, Ryan (2008). The economy and Pocock's political economy. History of European Ideas, 34 (3), 334-344. doi: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2007.12.010
Walter, Ryan (2008). Foucault and radical deliberative democracy. Australian Journal of Political Science, 43 (3), 531-546. doi: 10.1080/10361140802267290
Walter, Ryan (2008). Reconciling Foucault and Skinner on the state: The primacy of politics?. History of the Human Sciences, 21 (3), 94-114. doi: 10.1177/0952695108093955
Walter, Ryan (2008). Governmentality accounts of the economy: A liberal bias?. Economy and Society, 37 (1), 94-114. doi: 10.1080/03085140701760890
Newspaper Article
Walter, Ryan (2022, 12 01). University-made economics Australian Book Review
Generic Documents
Kearns, David and Walter, Ryan (2025). Submission to the Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities. Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.