Dr Walter is a Senior Lecturer (Political Economy) at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Dr Walter worked briefly as a professional economist before returning to university to complete a PhD in the history of economic thought, later published as A Critical History of the Economy (Routledge, 2011). He is currently working on two projects. The first examines the role of economic discourse in Australian political rhetoric. The second project is to study the ethoi and arts of reasoning that economists were obliged to defend in early nineteenth-century Britain in response to widespread hostility to the very existence of their discipline.  [Read more]