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Anthony Thirlwall
Anthony Philip Thirlwall (born 1941) is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Kent. He has made major contributions to regional economics; the analysis of unemployment and inflation; balance of payments theory, and to growth and development economics with particular reference to developing countries. He is the author of the bestselling textboo''Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence''(Palgrave Macmillan) now in its ninth edition. He is also the biographer and literary executor of the famous Cambridge economist Nicholas Kaldor. Perhaps his most notable contribution has been to show that if long-run balance of payments equilibrium is a requirement for a country, its growth of national income can be approximated by the ratio of the growth of exports to the income elasticity of demand for imports (Thirlwall's Law). Education Thirlwall was educated at the Harrow Weald County Grammar School (1952–59) where he was first taught economics by Merlyn Rees who later be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Kent
, motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 36 As Martin notes "Our former Information Officer has ventured the opinion that Thomas Cranmer, Cranmer would not have got very high marks had this phrase appeared in an General Certificate of Education#O-level, O-Level Latin paper!" , top_free_label = , top_free = , type = Public university, Public , established = , closed = , founder = , parent = , affiliation = , affiliations = Universities UKSGroup European Universities' NetworkEuropean University Association, EUAAssociation of Commonwealth Universities, ACUEastern ARCUniversities at Medway , religious_affiliation = , academic_affiliation = , endowment = Pound sterling, £5.528 million (2018) , budget = , officer_i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
