John Quiggin

Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor at the University of Queensland, and a fomer member of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.

He was awarded the Australian Social Science Academy Medal in 1993 and a Fellowship in 1996, received the 1997 and 2000 Sam Richardson of the Institute of Public Administration, Australia, received the 2001 Editors Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2002, and a Distinguished Fellowship of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2011 received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia.

A prolific author and blogger, Professor Quiggin's most recent book, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, was published Princeton University Press in April 2019.

Experience

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Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, University of Queensland
2000–2002

Australian Research Council Senior Fellow, Australian National University
1998–1999

Australian Research Council Senior Fellow, James Cook University
1996–1997

Professor of Economics, James Cook University
1995–1996

Professor, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
1993–1994

Senior Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University

Education

1988

University of New England, PhD
1984

Australian National University, MEc (coursework and thesis)
1980

Australian National University, BEc (1st Class Honours in Economics)
1978

Australian National University, BA (1st Class Honours in Mathematics)

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