Timothy Taylor (born 1960) is an American

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. He is

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of the ''

Journal of Economic Perspectives The ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' (JEP) is an economic journal published by the American Economic Association. The journal was established in 1987. It is very broad in its scope. According to its editors its purpose is: #to synthesize and ...

'', a quarterly academic journal produced at

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...

and published by the

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. Taylor received his Bachelor of Arts degree from

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...

and a master's degree in economics from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. At Stanford, he was winner of the award for excellent teaching in a large class (more than 30 students) given by the Associated Students of Stanford University. At Minnesota, he was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Department of Economics and voted Teacher of the Year by the master's degree students at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Taylor has been a guest speaker for groups of teachers of high school economics, visiting diplomats from eastern Europe, talk-radio shows, and community groups. From 1989 to 1997, Professor Taylor wrote an economics opinion column for the

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. He has published multiple lectures on economics through

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. With Rudolph Penner and

Isabel Sawhill Isabel Van Devanter Sawhill is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she formerly held the position of vice president and director of Economic Studies, among other duties. She has authored or co-authored many books, including ''Gene ...

, he is co-author of ''Updating America's Social Contract'' (2000), whose first chapter provided an early radical centrist perspective, "An Agenda for the Radical Middle".Penner, Rudolph; Sawhill, Isabel; Taylor, Timothy (2000). ''Updating America's Social Contract: Economic Growth and Opportunity in the New Century''. W. W. Norton and Co., Chap. 1 ("An Agenda for the Radical Middle"). . Taylor is also the author of ''The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works,'' published by the Penguin Group in 2012. The fourth edition of Taylor's ''Principles of Economics'' textbook was published by Textbook Media in 2017.

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External links

List of editors at Journal of Economic Perspectives

Personal website with professional information
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Timothy Living people 1960 births 21st-century American economists American magazine editors Radical centrist writers Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni Haverford College alumni The Mercury News people Managing editors