Wendy Joan Carlin, (born 1957) is a professor of economics at

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, expert advisor to the

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, and research fellow at the

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. Her research focuses on

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, institutions and economic performance, and the

economics of transition A transition economy or transitional economy is an economy which is changing from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Transition economies undergo a set of structural transformations intended to develop market-based institutions. ...

Early life and education

Carlin was born in 1957, her father Brian Frederick Carlin was an agricultural scientist. Carlin completed her undergraduate education at

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, Australia in 1978. She then went on to study for a

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and PhD at the

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on a

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, finishing in 1987. Her thesis was entitled ''The development of the factor distribution of income and profitability in West Germany, 1945-1973'' and was supervised by Andrea Boltho. In her early academic career, Carlin focused on contemporary economics and economic history, and in particular, West Germany. The statistician John Carlin is her brother.

Career

During her PhD studies, Carlin was a lecturer in economics at

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. After her PhD she moved to the Department of Economics at UCL where she has remained since. She was appointed professor at UCL in 2002. In 2000, Carlin became a research fellow at the

. Since 2011, Carlin has been a member of the expert advisory board to the

. Between 2000 and 2015 she was co-managing editor (with

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) of Economics of Transition. In 2013, Carlin was one of the founders of Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE), for which she is now the director. CORE is a new introductory course in economics provided free to students and teachers, hoping to "reform the undergraduate economics curriculum", in which economists "will learn to use evidence from history, experiments and other data sources to test competing explanations and policies" CORE is funded by grants from various organisations, including Open Society Foundations, Friends Provident Foundation and Nuffield Foundation and is based in the Economics Department at University College London. The CORE project has produced an interactive open-access e-book for an introductory course in economics, currently being used at universities around the world such as UCL,

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, and many more. In 2015, she became a member of the council of the

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. Carlin has written three books, all coauthored with

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: * Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate (1990) * Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) * Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015) The third book integrates the financial system into the macroeconomic model to allow for analysis of financial cycles as well as business cycles and growth. Since 2019, Carlin has served as an External Professor to the

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Awards and honours

In September 2014, Carlin was awarded an honorary degree in economics from Murdoch University. In 2016, Carlin was awarded a

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in the new year honours, for services to economics and public finance. Carlin received the 2019

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Outstanding Career Achievement in Economics Education award. She is also a fellow of the

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Personal life

Carlin was married to University of Oxford economics lecturer Andrew Glyn, with whom she had two children. Glyn died in December 2007 from

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlin, Wendy Living people 1957 births Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Australian economists Australian women economists Academics of University College London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Institute for New Economic Thinking Fellows of the European Economic Association Australian Rhodes Scholars