Peter Burnham is a Marxist professor of political science and international studies at the University of Birmingham.
[2] His interests lie in the areas of British politics (specifically economic policy making, including exchange rate regimes),[3] radical international political economy, state theory, and political science research methods (particularly the use of national archives).
[4] He has an avid interest in Smith and Riccardo, as well as the Labour Theory of Value.
Burnham's publications include The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction (Macmillan, 1990), A Major Crisis?
The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain in the 1990s (co-authored, Dartmouth, 1995), Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives (co-authored, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and Research Methods in Politics (co-authored, Palgrave Macmillan, second edition 2008).