John Cunningham Wood (born 1952) is an Australian economist, author, and the Chief Executive Officer of the University Division at Navitas, known as series editor of the "Critical Assessment of Leading Economists" series of

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Biography

Wood received his BE (hons) with first class honours in economics from the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...

and his D.Phil. from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Wood started his career as an academic in Australia at the University of New England. He later worked for State and Federal Governments which included the position of Speech Writer to the Prime Minister and later as economist for

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in the 1980s. In 1994 he was appointed Hughes Professor of Business at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...

, Australia. He was affiliated with the

Edith Cowan University Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman. Gaining unive ...

, where he was the Deputy Vice Chancellor. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of University Programs to the global education provider Navitas.John Cunningham Wood, PhD
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Selected publications

* Wood, John Cunningham. ''Thomas Robert Malthus, Critical Assessments.'' Vol. 1. Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1986. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed.'' Karl Marx's economics: critical assessments.'' Vol. 1. Psychology Press, 1988. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed. ''William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments.'' Vol. 1. Routledge, 1988. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed. ''JA Schumpeter: critical assessments.'' Vol. 4. Taylor & Francis, 1991. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed. ''Adam Smith: critical assessments.'' Vol. 3. Taylor & Francis, 1993. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed. ''Alfred Marshall: critical assessments.'' Taylor & Francis, 1993. * Wood, John Cunningham, ed. ''John Maynard Keynes,'' Critical Assessment: Second Series. Psychology Press, 1994. * Wood, John Cunningham, and Robert D. Wood, eds. ''Friedrich A. Von Hayek.'' Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, 2004.

References

1952 births Living people Australian economists University of Western Australia alumni Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford University of Notre Dame faculty Edith Cowan University faculty {{Australia-economist-stub