John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, there achieving bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and further completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The University of New England ( UNE) is an Australian public university with approximately 18000 higher education students Since then, he has held academic positions at the Australian National University, James Cook University, and the University of Queensland.
Quiggin is a prolific author, and is regularly[1] among the top economists in Australia, measured by output in high-quality journals and by citation frequencies. He is among the top 500 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc is a collaborative effort of hundreds of Volunteers in 57 countries to enhance the dissemination of Research in Economics He is best known for his work on utility theory. In Economics, utility is a measure of the relative satisfaction from or desirability of Consumption of various Goods and services. Quiggin has frequently been awarded and recognised for his research, including twice receiving Federation Fellowships from the Australian Research Council. [2]
Quiggin authors an Australian centre-left blog,[3] and is a regular contributor to Crooked Timber. The centre-left (or center-left) is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals political parties or organizations (such as Think A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Crooked Timber is a widely-read Political blog run by a group of (mostly academics from and working in several different nations including the USA, the UK [4] He also writes a fortnightly column in The Australian Financial Review. The Australian Financial Review is the leading Business Newspaper in Australia which is published daily from Monday to Saturday in a Tabloid
His Erdős number is 3. The Erdős number (ɛrdøːʃ honoring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, is a way of describing the "collaborative distance" between a person [5]
Notes
- ^ Sinha, Dipendra & Macri, Joseph, "Rankings of Economists in Teaching Economics Departments in Australia, 1988−2000", Economics Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 1-19.
- ^ Federation Fellows 2007
- ^ John Quiggin's Blog.
- ^ The Crooked Timber Blog.
- ^ Quiggin, John. What I’m reading*. “"his reminds me to mention that my Erdos number is 3 (via Peter Wakker and Peter Fishburn). Peter C Fishburn (born 1936 is known as a pioneer in the field of decision making processes "”
Selected bibliography
- Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1994, ISBN 0-522-84641-6 (with John Langmore)
- Great Expectations : Microeconomic Reform and Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, ISBN 1-86448-236-2
- Taxing Times: A Guide to the Tax Debate in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 1998, ISBN 0-86840-441-1
- Uncertainty, Production, Choice and Agency: The State-Contingent Approach, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000, Chambers, R. Carlton is an Inner city suburb to the immediate north of the central city area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a University situated in Kensington, a suburb in G. and Quiggin, J. (2000), ISBN 0-521-62244-1 (with Robert G Chambers)
- "Demography and the New Economy", Journal of Population Research, 18(2), 2001, pp. 177-193,
- "Social democracy and market reform in Australia and New Zealand", in Glyn, A. (ed. ), Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980, Oxford University Press, Oxford , pp. 80-109, ISBN 0-19-924138-4
External links
- John Quiggin's Home Page at the University of Queensland
- John Quiggin's Blog
- The Crooked Timber Blog
- Google Scholar
- IDEAS/RePEc
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