Professor Tony Thirlwall

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Professor of Economics

Office: L1.11 Keynes
Telephone: +44 1227 827414
Email: Tony Thirlwall

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.

Current work

Working papers
  • Has Trade Liberalisation in Poor Countries Delivered the Promises Expected? (with Penélope Pacheco-López) [pdf]
  • "Keynes and Economic Development" (published in Economia Aplicada, Oct/Dec 2007)
  • "Trade Liberalisation, the Balance of Payments and Growth in Latin America" (with Penélope Pacheco-López) (published in International Review of Applied Economics, September 2007) [pdf]
  • "Trade Liberalisation, the Income Elasticity of Demand for Imports and Growth in Latin America" (with Penélope Pacheco-López) (published in Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Fall 2006) [pdf]
  • "Trade Liberalisation in Mexico: Rhetoric and Reality" (with Penélope Pacheco-López) (published in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, June 2004) [pdf]
  • "The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Export Growth, Import Growth, the Balance of Trade and the Balance of Payments in Developing Countries" (with A. Santos-Paulino) (published in Economic Journal, February 2004)
  • The Relevance of Keynes Today: with Particular Reference to Unemployment in Rich and Poor Countries [Spanish translation: La Relevancia Actual de Keynes: el Desempleo en los Países Ricos y Pobres] [pdf]

Publications

Full CV including list of publications (word)

Tony's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth51.htm

Recent articles
  • "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
  • “Trade Liberalisation in Mexico : Rhetoric and Reality” (with P. Pacheco-Lopez), Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, June, 2004
  • “The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Exports, Imports, and the Balance of Payments of Developing Countries”, Economic Journal, February, 2004 (with A. Santos Paulino)
  • “Testing Kaldor’s Growth Laws Across the Countries of Africa” (with H.Wells), African Development Review, December, 2003
  • “The Mobilisation of Saving for Growth and Development in Developing Countries”, Investigacion Economica (Mexico), April-June 2001; also in ICAF Journal of Applied Economics, November 2002
  • “The Endogeneity of the Natural Rate of Growth”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, July, 2002 (with M. Leon-Ledesma)
  • “The Endogeneity of the Natural Rate of Growth : A Reply to Boggio and Seravalli” (with M. Leon-Ledesma), Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, June 2002
  • “The Relation Between the Warranted Growth Rate,the Natural Rate and the Balance of Payments Equilibrium Growth Rate”, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall, 2001
Recent books
Recent contributions to books
  • “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)
  • “Debt Crisis” in D. Clark (ed), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, (Edward Elgar, 2006)
  • “The Determinants of Saving in Developing Countries and the Impact of Financial Liberalisation” in P. Arestis, M. Baddeley and J. McCombie (eds), The New Monetary Policy, (Edward Elgar, 2005)
  • “Nicholas Kaldor” in D. Rutherford (ed), Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, (Thoemmes Press,2004)
  • Foreward to Productivity Growth and Economic Performance : Essays on Verdoorn’s Law edited by J.McCombie, M. Pugno and B. Soro (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003)
  • “Development as Economic Growth” in R. Potter and V. Desai (eds), The Companion to Development Studies, (Arnold, 2002). Second Edition, 2006
  • “Old Thoughts on New Growth Theory” in N. Salvadori (ed), Old and new Growth Theories : An Assessment, (Edward Elgar, 2003)
  • “Nicholas Kaldor”, in Routledge Encylopedia of International Political Economy (London : Routledge, 2003)
  • “Kaldorian Economics” in J. King (ed), The Elgar Companion of Post Keynesian Economics (Edward Elgar, 2002)
  • Preface to Credit, Interest Rates and the Open Economy edited by L. Rochon and M. Verneng (Edward Elgar 2001).

Teaching

PhD supervision

Past students
  • Mr Fortunate Uneze: "The Impact of Foreign Aid on Investment, Growth and the Exchange Rate in West Africa", Completed 2009
  • Miss May Ahmad-Ariffin: "The Role of Trade in the Diversification of Brunei", Completed 2008
  • Dr Matteo Lanzafame: "Essays on Regional Growth and Unemployment in Italy." Completed: 2007.
  • Dr B Fowowe: "The Impact of Financial Liberalisation on the Economic Performance of Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa." Completed: 2006.
  • Dr Penelope Pacheco-Lopez: "Trade Liberalisation in Mexico on Exports, Imports and the Balance of Payments." Completed: 2003.
  • Dr Amelia Sanots-Paulino: "The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Exports, Imports and the Balance of Payments in Selected Countries." Completed 2002.
  • Dr K. Nell, "Money, Inflation and Growth in South Africa", Completed 2000

Video Lectures

Lectures in Mexico 2008: Trade, Growth and the Balance of Payments in Latin America
Lecture 1
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Lecture 2
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Lecture 3
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Lecture 4
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