Profile
Professor of Applied Economics
Office: L1.11 Keynes
Telephone: +44 (0) 1227 827414
Email: Tony Thirlwall
Consultation hours: Tue 16:15-17:15
Tony Thirlwall is Professor of Applied Economics. He was born in 1941 and received his higher education at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, and Clark University (USA). Virtually the whole of his academic career has been spent at the University of Kent which he joined as a lecturer in 1966, but he has also worked as a government economic adviser, and held various visiting positions including West Virginia University (1967); Princeton University (1971-72); University of Papua New Guinea (1974); Cambridge University (1979, 1986); Melbourne University (1981, 1988), and La Trobe University (1994).
Recent assignments include Consultant to the Pacific Islands Development Programme in Hawaii, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and UNCTAD. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and the African Development Review.
Publications
Full CV including list of publications (pdf)
Tony's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth51.htm
Recent articles
- "Macroeconomics for a Better Society: the Economics of John Cornwall", Review of Political Economy, October 2010 (with M. Setterfield)
- "The Endogeneity of the National Rate of Growth for a Selection of Asian Countries, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Spring 2011 (with M. Dray)
- "The Relevance of Keynes Today : with Special Reference to Unemployment in Rich and Poor Countries" in P. Arestis and J. McCombie (eds), Unemployment : Past and Present, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008) ; also in Investigacion Economica, October-December 2007
- "Has Trade Liberalisation in Poor Countries Delivered the Promises Expected?" Panorama Economico ( Mexico), January-June 2009 (with P. Pacheco-Lopez)
- “Keynes and Economic Development”, Economia Aplicada (Brazilian Journal of Applied Economics), October-December 2007
- “Trade Liberalisation and the Trade-Off Between Growth and the Balance of Payments in Latin America” (with P. Pacheco Lopez), International Review of Applied Economics, September 2007
- “The Least Developed Countries Report 2006 : Developing Productive Capacities : A Review Article”, Journal of Development Studies, July 2007
- “Trade Liberalisation, the Income Elasticity of Demand for Imports and Growth in Latin America” (with P. Pacheco-Lopez), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall 2006
- “The Structure of Production, the Balance of Payments and Growth in Developing Countries: an Essay in Memory of Mohammed Nureldin Hussain”, African Development Review, April 2006
Recent books
- Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations (with Penelope Pacheco-Lopez), (Edward Elgar, 2008), pp 248.
- Great Thinkers in Economics Series (Series Editor), Palgrave-Macmillan
- Growth and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of A.P.Thirlwall (Edward Elgar, 2006), pp.320
- Trade, the Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2003), pp. 130
- The Nature of Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, 2002) pp. 111
- Macroeconomic Issues from a Keynesian Perspective: Selected Essays, Vol. 2 (Edward Elgar, 1997) pp.374
- The Economics of Growth and Development, Selected Essays, Vol 1 (Edward Elgar, 1995) pp.342
- Economics of Development First edition 1972; 9th edition 2011 (Palgrave-Macmillan) pp.712