Synopses & Reviews
Paying close attention to significant topics neglected by most principles-level texts-such as imperfect markets and the centrality of technological change in modern economies-the authors provided beginning students with the tools to interpret economic realities in the world around them. The Second Edition continues this tradition. Updated to reflect recent economic change and with more tightly focused chapters, the Second Edition remains the strongest text for students of Canadian economics.
Synopsis
Shaped by the groundbreaking research that earned Professor Stiglitz the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and by Professor Boadway"s intimate knowledge of the Canadian economy, the First Edition of these companion texts changed the way introductory Canadian economics is taught.
About the Author
Robin Boadwayis Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Economic Theory and former head of the Department of Economics at Queen's University. He served as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economicsfor several years and was president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1996-97. He is well-known for his contributions to public sector and welfare economics, which include Public Sector Economics, with D. E. Wildasin, Welfare Economics, with N. Bruce, and Canadian Tax Policy, with H. M. Kitchen, as well as numerous journal articles and monographs. His prize-winning research emphasizes the application of economic theory to important policy issues and has illuminated many Canadian public policy debates ranging from fiscal federalism to reform to redistributive policy.
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitzis the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.