John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is Hinkley Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and an Australian Research Council Federation fellow at the University of Queensland.[1] Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, obtaining bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988. Since then, he has held academic positions at the Australian National University, James Cook University, and the University of Queensland.
Quiggin is one of the most prolific economists in Australia, illustrated by his output over diverse, high-quality journals[2] and by citation frequencies in the period 1988-2000.[3] He is among the top 500 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.[4] He is best known for his work on utility theory. Quiggin has frequently been awarded and recognised for his research, including twice receiving Federation Fellowships from the Australian Research Council.[5] His most recent book, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us, was published in October 2010 from Princeton University Press.[6] He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society[7] and in 2011 received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia.[8]
Quiggin writes a blog,[9] and is a regular contributor to Crooked Timber.[10] He also writes a fortnightly column in The Australian Financial Review and is a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Development.[11]
[edit] Selected works
- 1994. Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, ISBN 0-522-84641-6 (ed., with John Langmore) TOC.
- 1996. Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, ISBN 1-86448-236-2
- 1998. Taxing Times: A Guide to the Tax Debate in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, ISBN 0-86840-441-1
- 1998. "Social Democracy and Market Reform in Australia and New Zealand," Oxford Review of Public Policy, 14(1), pp. 79-109, also in A. Glyn (ed.), 2001, Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980, Oxford University Press, Oxford , pp. 80-109. ISBN 0-19-924138-4.
- 2000. Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency: The State-Contingent Approach, Cambridge University Press, New York, ISBN 0-521-62244-1 (with Robert G Chambers) Description and preview.
- 2001. "Demography and the New Economy," Journal of Population Research, 18(2), pp. 177-193.
- 2010. Zombie Economics:How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us. Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-14582-2 Description TOC, and Introduction.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "John Quiggin Profile". The National Interest. 2012. http://nationalinterest.org/profile/john-quiggin.
- ^ Per a Google Scholar search of "John Quiggin".
- ^ Sinha, Dipendra & Macri, Joseph, "Rankings of Economists in Teaching Economics Departments in Australia, 1988−2000, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 1-19. at the Internet Archive
- ^ Top 10% Authors, as of June 2010 at RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
- ^ Federation Fellows 2007
- ^ "Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us" ISBN 978-1-4008-3598-0
- ^ The Econometric Society: Fellows of the Econometric Society
- ^ "Awards". The Economic Society of Australia. 2011. http://www.ecosoc.org.au/cc/awards. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ John Quiggin's Blog
- ^ The Crooked Timber Blog.
- ^ Centre for Policy Development - Fellows.
