
Overview
Background
John Quiggin is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. He is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and many other learned societies and institutions. He has produced over 1500 publications, including six books and over 200 refereed journal articles, in fields including decision theory, environmental economics, production economics, and the theory of economic growth. He has also written on policy topics including climate change, micro-economic reform, privatisation, employment policy and the management of the Murray-Darling river system. His latest book, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work so Well and Why they can Fail so Badly, was released in 2019 by Princeton University Press.
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Australian National University
- Bachelor (Honours) of Economics, Australian National University
- Masters (Coursework), Australian National University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England Australia
- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Research impacts
In addition to scholarly books and journal articles, I have had an impact on public discussion of policy issues through a wide variety of new and traditional media, and through direct engagement with stakeholders and the general public. I have taken an active part in public debate, both in Australia and internationally, through books, magazines newspaper articles and appearances in electronic media. My book, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, published by Princeton University Press has been translated into eight languages and sold more than 20 000 copies. My work is regularly cited in the New York Times, The Economist and other leading international publications. For example, a search of the New York Times reveals 30 citations to me in the past 5 years, and The Economist 48. I have published invited articles in leading international newspapers and policy journals, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek Daily Beast, the National Interest and the New York Times. I have also been prominent in 'New Media' (although this term has now become somewhat dated). I maintain an individual blog (listed in the top 100 economics blogs http://www.onalyticaindexes.com/2012/11/26/ top-200-most-influential-economics-blogs/) and participate in the Crooked Timber group blog, regularly listed among the world's leading academic blogs. My public Facebook page has over 500 followers and my Twitter feed more than 5000. As part of my commitment to public debate I have regularly made submissions to, and appeared before, Parliamentary inquiries into a wide range of topics, notably including the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Commonwealth Hansard produces 266 results in a search for my name. My public policy work has been recognised through appointments to the Boards of the Queensland Competition Authority and the Climate Change Authority. My work has had a substantial impact, as recognized by a variety of criteria and metrics. My work has been recognised through awards including Fellowship of the Econometrics Society, Distinguished Fellowship of the Economics Society of Australia, Distinguished Fellowship of the American Agricultural Economics Society, Distinguished Alumni awards from the University of New England and Australian National University and election as President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. I have also been invited to hold numerous Fellowships, adjunct and honorary professorships and the like. Examples include the Centre for Policy Development (Sydney), the Cairns Institute (James Cook University Cairns Campus), the University of Maryland College Park, the Inaugural Don Dunstan Visiting Professorship at the University of Adelaide, the Centre for the Economic Analysis ofRisk, Georgia State University and the Hinkley Visiting Professorship at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Works
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2012
Other Outputs
Optimal Access Regulation with Downstream Competition
Menezes, Flavio, Quiggin, John and Kao, Tina (2012). Optimal Access Regulation with Downstream Competition. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 473. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
2012
Journal Article
More competitors or more competition? Market concentration and the intensity of competition
Menezes, Flavio M. and Quiggin, John (2012). More competitors or more competition? Market concentration and the intensity of competition. Economics Letters, 117 (3), 712-714. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.001
2012
Journal Article
Differential awareness, ambiguity, and incomplete contracts: A model of contractual disputes
Grant, Simon, Kline, J.Jude and Quiggin, John (2012). Differential awareness, ambiguity, and incomplete contracts: A model of contractual disputes. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 82 (2-3), 494-504. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.02.021
2012
Journal Article
Equity between overlapping generations
Quiggin, John (2012). Equity between overlapping generations. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 14 (2), 273-284. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2011.01540.x
2012
Book Chapter
Economists and uncertainty
Quiggin, John (2012). Economists and uncertainty. Uncertainty and risk: multidisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 195-203) edited by Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson. London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781849773607-25
2012
Book Chapter
Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals
Smithson, Michael, Bammer, Gabriele, Attewell, Robyn, Buckman, Stephen, Curthoys, Ann, Delaney, Kate, Dovers, Stephen, Furler, Liz, Grishin, Sasha, Hájek, Alan, Handmer, John, Jones, Judith, Longford, Steve, Mackey, John, McFadden, Michael, Moore, Michael, Perkins, Paul, Perez, Pascal, Pickard, Stephen, Plant, Aileen, Quiggin, John, Ritter, Alison and White, Ian (2012). Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals. Uncertainty and risk: multidisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 305-320) edited by Bammer, Gabriele and Smithson, Michael. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781849773607-34
2012
Book Chapter
Economists and uncertainty
Quiggin, John (2012). Economists and uncertainty. Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (pp. 195-203) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781849773607
2012
Book Chapter
Variability and uncertainty: implications for water policy impact analysis
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Adamson, David, Chambers, Sarah, Schrobback, Peggy and Quiggin, John (2012). Variability and uncertainty: implications for water policy impact analysis. Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin. (pp. 82-100) edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Sarah Chambers. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781781000328.00017
2012
Book Chapter
Coping and managing under uncertainty
Smithson, Michael, Bammer, Gabriele, Attewell, Robyn, Buckman, Stephen, Curthoys, Ann, Delaney, Kate, Dovers, Stephen, Furler, Liz, Grishin, Sasha, Hájek, Alan, Handmer, John, Jones, Judith, Longford, Steve, Mackey, John, McFadden, Michael, Moore, Michael, Perkins, Paul, Perez, Pascal, Pickard, Stephen, Plant, Aileen, Quiggin, John, Ritter, Alison and White, Ian (2012). Coping and managing under uncertainty. Uncertainty and risk: multidisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 321-333) edited by Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781849773607-37
2012
Conference Publication
Stabilizing the global climate: A simple and robust benefit-cost analysis
Quiggin, John (2012). Stabilizing the global climate: A simple and robust benefit-cost analysis. AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting (2011), Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 24-26 July 2011. Cary, NC, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aar130
2012
Book
Water policy reform: Lessons in sustainability from the Murray-Darling basin
John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Sarah Chambers eds. (2012). Water policy reform: Lessons in sustainability from the Murray-Darling basin. Cheltenham, Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781781000328
2012
Book Chapter
Financial markets: masters or servants?
Quiggin, John (2012). Financial markets: masters or servants?. New visions for market governance: crisis and renewal. (pp. 16-27) edited by Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall and Sanjay Pinto. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203116050
2012
Book Chapter
The nature of uncertainty
Bammer, Gabriele, Smithson, Michael, Attewell, Robyn, Buckman, Stephen, Curthoys, Ann, Delaney, Kate, Dovers, Stephen, Furler, Liz, Grishin, Sasha, Hájek, Alan, Handmer, John, Jones, Judith, Longford, Steve, Mackey, John, McFadden, Michael, Moore, Michael, Perkins, Paul, Perez, Pascal, Pickard, Stephen, Plant, Aileen, Quiggin, John, Ritter, Alison and White, Ian (2012). The nature of uncertainty. Uncertainty and risk: multidisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 289-303) edited by Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781849773607-33
2012
Book Chapter
Investment as an adaptation response to water scarcity
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, McClintock, Anthea, Adamson, David and Quiggin, John (2012). Investment as an adaptation response to water scarcity. Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin. (pp. 101-128) edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Sarah Chambers. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781781000328.00018
2012
Book
Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray–Darling Basin
Quiggin, John, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak and Chambers, Sarah (2012). Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray–Darling Basin. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..
2012
Book Chapter
Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan failed, and what can be done to fix it
Quiggin, John (2012). Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan failed, and what can be done to fix it. Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin. (pp. 49-60) edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Sarah Chambers. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781781000311.00014
2011
Journal Article
To sell or not
Quiggin, John (2011). To sell or not. Finance and Development, 48 (4), 34-37.
2011
Journal Article
What have we learned from the global financial crisis?
Quiggin, John (2011). What have we learned from the global financial crisis?. Australian Economic Review, 44 (4), 355-365. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2011.00661.x
2011
Journal Article
Economic Blogs : ECONOMIC BLOGS
Quiggin, John (2011). Economic Blogs : ECONOMIC BLOGS. Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 30 (4), 437-440. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00148.x
2011
Journal Article
Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: A state-contingent approach
Nauges, Celine, O'Donnell, Christopher J. and Quiggin, John (2011). Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: A state-contingent approach. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 38 (4), 449-467. doi: 10.1093/erae/jbr014
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Three essays on energy shift: From fossil fuels towards renewables
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Eric Eisenstat
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Light Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards and the Rebound Effect
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Rodney Strachan
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton and Kortum (2002) Trade Model
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Shino Takayama
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Climate Change Impacts of Irrigation in the Murray Darling Basin
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
What they think, what they expect, and what they practise: A multivariate analysis of students' perceptions about teaching and learning in higher education
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Adrian Ashman
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
Estimating State-Contingent Technologies
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Christopher O'Donnell
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Essays on complexity, choice, and competition in the market for retirement funds
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Peter Earl
Media
Enquiries
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- Australian economic policy
- Climate change economics
- drought economics
- Economic growth
- Economic policy - Australia
- Economics
- Employment policy - economics
- Environment and economics
- Political economy
- public asset sales
- Tax
- Zombie economics
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