Notes on Contributors

Lise Arena is a tenured Associate Professor at the CNRS-Universite Cote d'Azur Research Institute GREDEG (France) where she obtained her PhD in Management. She also holds a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

Vincent Barnett is an independent scholar based in the UK who has written extensively on the history of economic thought, on Russian history and on media history. He has published various articles in journals such as Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Journal of Economic Issues and History of Political Economy, and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought (2015). He has also published articles on the economic history of organised crime, including in the Journal of Popular Television, and recently contributed various entries to the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science on the links between economics and evolu­tionary psychology.

Robert J. Bigg was educated in Southampton and at Clare College, Cambridge, and spent many subsequent years in information systems. His main research focus was the development of Cambridge monetary thought before The General Theory, including Cambridge and the Monetary Theory of

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Production (1990). He is a contributor to The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics and is working on a study of Sir Theodore Gregory's work and some other pre-Keynesian economists.

Christopher Bliss has been at the University of Oxford since 1977.

Robert A. Cord is an independent researcher in economics. His specialist area of interest is the history of economic thought and, within this, the history of macroeconomics. His published books include Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution (2012), Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy (co-edited with J. Daniel Hammond; 2016), The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics (editor; 2017) and The Palgrave Companion to LSE Economics (editor; 2018), and his articles have appeared in the Cambridge Journal ofEconomics and the History ofPoliticalEconomy. Cord is also managing editor of the Palgrave series Remaking Economics: Eminent Post-War Economists, which includes volumes on James Buchanan and Paul Samuelson. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University.

John Creedy is Professor of Public Economics and Taxation at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He was previously the Truby Williams Professor of Economics at Melbourne University, Australia. He has held chairs in economics at Pennsylvania State University in the US and Durham University in the UK. He has published extensively in public economics, labour economics, income distribution and the history of economic analysis.

Huw Dixon has been Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School since 2006. His research interests initially centred on oligopoly theory, par­ticularly developing Bertrand-Edgeworth models to allow for convex costs. Later, he was one of the first economists to introduce imperfect competition into macroeconomics, initially in static settings and later developing dynamic models of entry and variable markups.

John Duca is the Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics at Oberlin College and a part-time Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is an applied macroeconomist, whose work has focused on the consumption, hous­ing, labour and portfolio behaviour of households, incorporating roles for credit constraints, transaction costs, innovations and regulation. For over 30 years, Duca has served as an economist in the Federal Reserve System. Duca graduated with a PhD in Economics from Princeton and a BA in Economics from Yale.

Walter Eltis (1933-2019), a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and an Oxford D.Litt., was a Research Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1958-1960), a Lecturer at Exeter and Keble (1960-1963), and then a Tutorial Fellow in Economics, with a linked University post, at Exeter from 1963 to 1988. Subsequently, he was Economic Director and Director General of the National Economic Development Office and Chief Economic Adviser to the President, at the Board of Trade. Eltis’s articles appeared in the American Economic Review and the Economic Journal, amongst others. His books included Growth and Distribution (1973), Britain’s Economic Problem: Too Few Producers (with R. Bacon; 1976), The Classical Theory of Economic Growth (1984), KeynesandEconomicPolicy (with P Sinclair; 1988), Classical Economics, Public Expenditure and Growth (1993), Britain’s Economic Problem Revisited (1996), Condillac, Commerce and Government (ed. with S.M. Eltis; 1998), and Britain, Europe and EMU (2000).

Neil R. Ericsson is Principal Economist, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Research Professor in the Department of Economics, The George Washington University; and Adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.

David Fielding is Professor of Development Economics at Manchester University’s Global Development Institute and until recently was Professor of Economics at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he still holds a visiting position. He was an undergraduate at Keble College when Paul Collier was Keble’s Fellow and Tutor in Economics, and was later one of Collier’s DPhil students. Fielding’s early work focused on the macroeconomics of the francophone monetary unions in West Africa. His later work includes research on the economics of violent civil conflict, the role of altruism and trust in economic development, and the economics of inter-group contact.

Valpy FitzGerald is Emeritus Professor of International Development Finance, and Fellow of St Antony's College, at the University of Oxford. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, followed by a PhD in economics at Cambridge on optimal investment planning. FitzGerald was Assistant Director of Development Studies at Cambridge (1972-1979) and Professor of Development Economics at The Hague (1979-1992), before returning to Oxford, where he worked with Frances Stewart on the relation­ship between war and underdevelopment, and became Head of the Oxford Department of International Development (2007-2012). He continues to research the macroeconomic determinants of income distribution in the Kaleckian tradition and is a member of the Independent Commission on the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

Joshua Getzler took first degrees in Law and History at the Australian National University and read for his doctorate at Oxford. His work concerns the evolution of property rights, including water claims and native title, trusts and fiduciary accountability, corporate and Crown liabilities, and the history of the judiciary. He has taught at St Hugh's College and the Oxford Faculty of Law since 1993, where he is Professor of Law and Legal History. Getzler has served as a visiting researcher and teacher at universities in Australia, Israel and the US. He is co-editor of the OUP monograph series Oxford Legal History.

Andrew Graham is Executive Chair and Chair of the Academic Council of The Europaeum, an association of 17 of the leading universities in Europe, and a Trustee of Reprieve. He was formerly Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, 1969-1997, Acting Master of Balliol, 1997-2001, and Master of Balliol, 2001-2011. He was Economic Assistant to Thomas Balogh from 1966 to 1968, Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister, 1968-1969, and Senior Economist in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit (on leave from Oxford), 1974-1976. In 2001, he founded the Oxford Internet Institute and, in 2010, the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute.

David F. Hendry is Co-Director of Climate Econometrics and Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Economics at Oxford and of Econometrics at LSE. He was knighted in 2009 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 2014. He is an Honorary Vice President and past President of the Royal Economic Society; Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Econometric Society, Academy of Social Sciences, Econometric Reviews and Journal of Econometrics; Founding Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (AEA) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters.

Patrick Honohan is an Honorary Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 2009 to 2015. Previously, Honohan spent 12 years on the staff of the World Bank where he was a senior adviser on financial sector issues. During the 1990s, Honohan was a Research Professor at Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute. In the 1980s, he was Economic Adviser to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garret FitzGerald. A graduate of University College Dublin, Honohan holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Lowell Jacobsen is the Elizabeth Harvey Rhodes Professor of International Business at Baker University, the oldest university in Kansas. He holds a PhD in Economics from Edinburgh University, where he specialised in industrial organisation under the supervision of Gavin Reid. Over the past few years, Jacobsen's research has focused on deepening the intellectual roots of strategic management by examining the works of Marshall and such disciples as Andrews, Coase, Loasby, Macgregor, Penrose, Robertson and Austin Robinson. His publications include two critically acclaimed research mono­graphs, The Small Entrepreneurial Firm (1988) and Profiles in Small Business: A Competitive Strategy Approach (1993) (both with Gavin Reid) in addition to many journal articles.

Vijay Joshi is Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. His main areas of research interest and publication are macroeconomics, international econom­ics and development economics. He has written several books on India's eco­nomic development, of which the most recent is Indids Long Road: The Search for Prosperity (2017). His non-academic appointments have included Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance in India and Special Adviser to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He was a Director of the J.P. Morgan Indian Investment Trust from 1996 to 2012.

John E. King is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor at Federation University Australia. His principal research interests are in the history of heterodox economic thought, especially Marxian political economy and post-Keynesian economics. Recent publications include The Distribution of Wealth (2016; with Michael Schneider and Mike Pottenger) and A History of American Economic Thought (2018; with Samuel Barbour and James Cicarelli). His latest book, The Alternative Austrian Economics, dealing with the history of socialist economic thought in Austria between 1904 and the present day, was published in 2019 by Edward Elgar.

Frederic S. Lee (1949-2014) was a prolific and influential economist. He authored and edited numerous books, articles, book chapters, reviews and entries on microeconomics and price theory and, with Warren Young, wrote Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists (1993). He taught at the University of California Riverside, Roosevelt University, De Montfort University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology and President of the Associations for Institutional Economics and for Evolutionary Economics. His PhD was from Rutgers University.

John Martin completed his undergraduate economics degree at University College Dublin. He then did postgraduate studies at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he became a Research Fellow, and a Lecturer in Economics at Merton College and The University of Buckingham. In 1977, he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. At the OECD, he worked in both the Economics Department and the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate where he was Director until his retirement. He was the founding editor of the OECD Employment Outlook and also edited the OECD Economic Outlook. He has published extensively in international trade and labour economics.

Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance at the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Extraordinary Professor of Education and Economic Performance at Maastricht University. For over 15 years, he was Director of SKOPE, an ESRC-funded multidisciplinary research centre on skills, knowl­edge and organisational performance based at Oxford and Cardiff. He has spent most of his career as an academic in Oxford. His first job was in Her Majesty's Treasury and he served a stint as Economic Director of the UK's former National Economic Development Office. He is a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.

Alex Millmow is Associate Professor in Economics at the School of Business, Federation University Australia. His research interests include the making of the Australian economics profession and the role of economic ideas in steer­ing public policy. In 2004, he completed his doctorate at the Australian National University on “The Power of Economic Ideas: The Rise of Macroeconomic Management in Australia”, which was subsequently pub­lished. Millmow has published over 50 journal articles, including for the Economic Record, Economic Papers, Economic Analysis and Policy and the History of Economics Review. He is the President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA). In 2017, Millmow published A History of Australasian Economic Thought. He is writing a biography of Colin Clark.

Peter Neary is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Merton College. Educated at University College Dublin and Oxford, he was Professor of Political Economy at University College Dublin from 1980 to 2006. He is the author of Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy (with Jim Anderson; 2005) and of various schol­arly articles, mainly on international trade. He is a Research Fellow of CEPR and Centre for Economic Studies(ifo) (CESifo), a Fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, and a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy. He was President of the European Economic Association in 2002 and of the Royal Economic Society in 2017—2018.

Bent Nielsen is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College. He has published more than 50 papers on age­period-cohort analyses, co-explosiveness and cointegration, outlier detection, time series specification tests and unit testing, as well as a textbook on econo­metric modelling.

Avner Offer is Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History at Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College and Fellow of the British Academy. He initially studied land tenure and the economics of war, with Property and Politics 1870-1914 (1981) and The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (1989). Subsequently, he focused on consumption and the quality of life with The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950 (2006) and on the social determinants of obesity. His latest book is The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy and the Market Turn (2016).

Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano is Professor of Economics and Boroli Chair in European Studies at Bocconi University, having previously taught at LSE and the University of Bologna. He holds a BA in economics from Bocconi University, an MSc in economics from LSE and a PhD in economics from the Universite Catholique de Louvain. He has co-authored many works in inter­national trade, urban economics and economic geography with a special emphasis on the competitiveness of firms in the global economy and the effects of immigration and offshoring on employment and wages.

Rosalind Seneca (nee Worswick) was born in 1944 in Oxford, England. She attended Oxford High School for Girls. In 1966, she graduated in Economics from Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the same year emigrated to the US. In 1971, she earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Seneca held academic positions at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University and Drew University, where she was Chair of the Economics Department for eight years. She is the author of several articles and co-authored an economics textbook on govern­ment regulation of industry. Since her retirement, Seneca has written a novel and a memoir.

Peter Sinclair (1946-2020) was a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and a consultant at the Bank of England. He was Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. Sinclair held Visiting Professorships at Queen's University and the University of British Columbia in Canada and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, was managing editor of Oxford Economic Papers for a decade and chaired the Royal Economic Society's Easter School for 22 years. Many of his research papers and books were devoted to climate change, unemployment, taxation, trade, and monetary economics and policy. Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford. She was Director of the Oxford Department of International Development (1993-2003) and the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (2003-2010). She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex and received the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought from Tufts in 2013. Her pri­mary recent research interests are horizontal inequalities, conflict and human development. Among many publications, she is the lead author of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (2008) and Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice (2018).

F. M. L. Thompson (1925-2017) was a distinguished economic historian, much of whose work was devoted to elucidating the experience of the English landed classes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in 1925, Thompson undertook military service during the war and only then went to Oxford to read History. From 1951, he was appointed to the staff of University College London: until his retirement he worked entirely in the colleges of the University of London, latterly as Director of the Institute of Historical Research from 1977 to 1990. His best-known book was English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (1963). Thompson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 1994.

Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London and holds visiting appointments at International University College, Turin, Italy, and the University of Bergamo, Italy. He studied Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Birmingham. Toporowski has worked in fund management, international banking, central banking and economic consultancy. He has written nearly 300 articles, books and papers on finance, monetary theory and macroeco­nomics, including two volumes of intellectual biography on Michal Kalecki.

John Vint is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Honorary Professor at Perm State University, Russia. He was formerly Head of Department at MMU and has taught at universities in the UK and North America. His research interests lie in the history of political economy specialising in the work of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Martineau. In 1993, Vint won the Joseph Dorfman Award for the best dissertation in the history of economic thought and published a book in 1994 based on his doc­torate entitled CapitalandWages. For 18 years, he was the editor of the History of Economic Thought Newsletter and has been the Chair of the Martineau Society since 2014.

Warren Young is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has published and edited books and articles on the history of mod­ern macroeconomics and growth theory, the history of the Federal Reserve, international macroeconomics, energy economics and the economy of Israel. He is the author, with the late Fred Lee, of Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists (1993). Young was an adviser to the Archives Project, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He was a Visiting Professor at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for Economic Efficiency, Arizona State University. Young holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.