Anthony Waterman

Anthony Waterman was born in Southampton, England on 4 June, 1931. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and at Selwyn College, Cambridge where he read Economics, graduating BA with Honours (II-1) in 1954.

In 1954 Anthony migrated to Canada, settling at first in Sarnia, Ontario where he married his fourth cousin, Margaret Elizabeth Sinclair, in 1955. Having worked in Sarnia as an auditor for a firm of Chartered Accountants, Anthony moved to Montreal in 1956 where he was employed by Canadian Industries Limited as an economic analyst. 

In 1974 he became a member of the National Executive Council. From 1973 to 1977 he was chairman of a national ‘task force’ of General Synod on the economy. By 1976 it had become clear that he must reorder his life. 

Anthony has served as consultant to the World Council of Churches and the Church of England Doctrine Committee, and has held visiting appointments at Cambridge, the ANU and Boston College. In 2014 he was elected Honorary Member of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought. 

Read further about Anthony’s education and work in Ross B. Emmett’s interview for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

• Fellow, St John’s College, Winnipeg, 1959-2006; Retired Fellow, 2006 - Present
• Teaching Fellow, Economics and Political Science, St. John's College, Winnipeg, 1959-62
• Assistant Professor, Economics, St. John's College, 1962-64
• Research Scholar, Economic History, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, 1964-67
• Tutor in Theology, St. Mark's Collegiate Library, Canberra, 1965
• Associate Professor, Economics, St. John's College and University of Manitoba, 1967-72
• External Tutor in Economics, University College, Oxford, 1971-72
• Head, Economics, University of Manitoba, 1972-76
• Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba, 1972-2006; Professor Emeritus 2007-
• Lecturer in Theology, St. John's College, 1975-76, 1988, 2003-2006
• Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, 1979-80
• Bye Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, 1986-87; Resident Senior Member, 1997-98, 2002; Senior Member 1986 to the present
• Visiting Research Fellow, History of Ideas Program, Australian National University, 1991
• Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, 1992-95; 1998-2000
• Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Director’s Unit, Australian National University, 1993, 1998
• Visiting Research Fellow, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College, 2002
• Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Social and Political Theory Unit, Australian National University, 2003.
• Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2007

Courses taught, University of Manitoba, 1959-2006

• Undergraduate, General: [for Economics Department]
  • Principles of Economics, Money and Banking
  • European Economic History
  • International Trade
  • Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Canadian Economic Problems; [for Applied Mathematics Department]
  • Mathematics for Economists; [for Political Science Department] Introduction to Political Science.
• Undergraduate, Honours: 
  • The Industrial Revolution in Britain
  • National Income
  • Business Cycles and Economic Growth
  • History of Economic Thought
• Graduate: 
  • Advanced Money and Banking
  • Advanced International Trade
  • Advanced Macroeconomics
  • Advanced Economic Growth

Courses taught in Theology

• St Mark’s Collegiate Library, Canberra, Australia, 1965: Historical and Systematic Theology [for General Ordination Examination]
• St John’s College, Winnipeg: Biblical and Systematic Theology, 1975-76 [for M.Div program]; Biblical Theology, 1988 [for Extension program]; Topics in Theology, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 [for Diploma Program]

Doctoral theses supervised

• K. Bhasin. ‘Neoclassical Growth Models in Open Economies’ (1973)
• Ross B. Emmett, ‘The Economist as Philosopher: Frank H. Knight and American Social Science During the Twenties and Early Thirties’ (1990). [Awarded the History of Economics Society Best Dissertation Award for 1991]

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

• Economic Fluctuations in Australia, 1945-1964. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972
• The Measurement of Economic Fluctuations in Canada, 1947 to 1970. Ottawa: Prices and Incomes Commission (Staff Study), 1973
• Poverty in Canada: A Christian Perspective (with other members of the National Task Force on the Economy). Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1978
• The Collected Economic Papers of C. L. Barber. Edited, with D. P. J. Hum and B. L. Scarfe. Winnipeg: Institute for Social and Economic Research, 1982
• Revolution, Economics and Religion: Christian Political Economy, 1798-1833. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Paperback reprint, 2006.
• Economics and Religion: Are They Distinct? Edited, with H. G. Brennan. Dordrecht, London and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994 [in “Modern Economic Thought” series: general ed., Warren J. Samuels]
• Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory. Edited, with J. M. Dean. Dordrecht, London and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998 [in “Modern Economic Thought’ series: general ed. Warren J. Samuels]
• Political Economy and Christian Theology since the Enlightenment: Essays in Intellectual History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• “Are Economists Basically Immoral?” And Other Essays on Economics, Ethics, and Religion by Paul Heyne. Edited and with an Introduction, by Geoffrey Brennan and A. M. C. Waterman. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.
• Paul Samuelson: Selected Essays in the History of Economic Analysis. Edited and with an Introduction, by Steve Medema and A. M. C. Waterman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

CHAPTERS OR ARTICLES IN BOOKS

Reference Works

• “William Godwin”. In Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• “William Paley”. In Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004.
• “Malthus”. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2^nd Edition, Farmington Hills MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.
•  “Political Economy: the English School”, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd Edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Edited Collections

• "Malthus Théologien: Economie Politique et Théologie Chrétienne dans le 'Premier Essai'". Dans Malthus Hier et Aujourd'hui (A. Fauve-Chamoux, ed.). Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1985
• “The Grand Scheme of Subordination: the Intellectual Roots of Tory Doctrine”. In Ideas and Ideologies: Essays in Memory of Eugene Kamenka (N. Rupke and D. W. Lovell, eds.). St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.
•  “Peasants, Population and Progress in Malthus and Chalmers”. In The Peasant in Economic Thought (E. Forget and R. A. Lobdell, eds.). Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995
•  “The Nexus between Theology and Political Doctrine in Church and Dissent”. In Enlightenment and Religion: the Case of Rational Dissent (K. Haakonssen, ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [In “Ideas in Context” series: general eds. Q. Skinner, R. Rorty et al.]
•  “The Beginning of 'Boundaries': the Sudden Separation of Political Economy from Christian Theology”. In Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange  (Guido Erreygers, ed.). London: Routledge, 2001. Reprinted in Economics and Religion (ed. P. Oslington). Cheltenham: Elgar, 2003.
•  “The Place of Thomas Chalmers in Scottish Political Economy’. In The History of Scottish Economic Thought (A. and S. Dow, eds.), London: Routledge, 2006.
• "William Paley 1743-1805”. In The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics (ed. Robert Cord), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• “‘Economic Doctrine’ in the Church of England since the Reformation”. In Handbook on Economics and Religion (ed. Robert Sauer), London: World Scientific, 2021.

To read more about Anthony's publications, visit his website here.