John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, obtaining bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988. 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 among the top economists in Australia, measured by output in high-quality journals and by citation frequencies.^[1] He is among the top 500 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.^[2] He is best known for his work on utility theory. Quiggin has frequently been awarded and recognised for his research, including twice receiving Federation Fellowships from the Australian Research Council.^[3]

Quiggin authors an Australian centre-left blog,^[4] and is a regular contributor to Crooked Timber.^[5] He also writes a fortnightly column in The Australian Financial Review.

His Erdős number is 3.^[6]

[edit] List of works

• 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. 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

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[edit] External links

• John Quiggin's Home Page at the University of Queensland
• John Quiggin's Blog