Paul Dickinson
Faculty Lecturer
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Specialization: Labour Economics,听Microeconomics
Biography: Paul Dickinson has taught in the Economics Department 25 years, during which time he worked as a consultant for the Government of Canada and some provincial governments. His social policy consulting projects have included evaluating the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Suplement programs for Canada's senior citizens, and assisting with a New Brunswick initiative to improve the education and employability of social assistance recipients. On a much different plane he has been a consultant for Statistics Canada in designing and evaluating national and international indices of Information Technology. He is also the coauthor of the Study Guide for the introductory economics textbook by Ragan & Lipsey.
Myron Frankman听
Associate Professor
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Specialization: Development Economics
George W Grantham
Professor Emeritus
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Specialization: Economic History
Biography:听George Grantham is an Associate Professor. His doctorate is from Yale University. He is studying the development of the French economy in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly the nature of agricultural change and interactions between agricultural and industrial growth
Christopher Green
Professor Emeritus
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Specialization: Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics
Biography:听Christopher Green is a Professor of Economics. His main teaching and research fields are Industrial Organisation; Public Policies Toward Business; and Environmental Economics, in particular the Economics of Climate Change.
Joseph Greenberg
Professor Emeritus
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Specialization: Economic Theory, Game Theory, Political Theory
Biography:听Joseph Greenberg, Retired Professor, PhD from Hebrew University, joined 91黑料网 in 1991. His interests include: economic theory, game theory, social choice theory, political theory, and general equilibrium theory. Holder of Chaire Francqui Internationale, (1987), and is an Honourary Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
John Iton
Associate Professor
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Specialization: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Biography:听John Iton, Retired Associate Professor, PhD from Johns Hopkins. John came to 91黑料网 in 1969. He taught both international trade and economic development with research interests in exchange rate regimens and economic development. He has done Population Council-sponsored field research in Brazil, has served as a consultant for the World Bank and as a Brookings Institution fellow, and he conducted a cost-benefit study of the Montr茅al Olympic Games.
John Kurien
Associate Professor
john.kurien1 [at] mcgill.ca
Specialization: Development Economics
Biography:听John Kurien is an Associate Professor. His research interest is economic development. His current areas of study are labour markets and institutions, economic structures, trade patterns and growth, and income distributions, in less developed countries.
Kari Polanyi-Levitt
Professor Emeritus
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Specialization: International Trade, Development Economics
Robin Rowley
Professor Emeritus
robin.rowley [at] mcgill.ca
Specialization: Econometrics, History of Economic Thought
Biography: Robin Rowley is a Professor. His doctorate is from the London School of Economics. In the area of applied economics he is studying repayment schemes for student loans, and decisions by firms to replace existing capital equipment with new equipment. He also works in econometric theory, studying probability and econometric methodology.
Lee Soderstrom
Associate Professor
lee.soderstrom [at] mcgill.ca
Specialization: Health Economics
Biography: Lee Soderstrom is an Associate Professor. He took his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the fields of labour and health economics, and the Canadian health care system in particular.
Thomas Velk
Associate Professor
tom.velk [at] mcgill.ca
Specialization: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Public Policy
Biography: Tom Velk is an Associate Professor. His doctorate is from Wisconsin, and his research interests are in monetary economics and public policy. The questions he is currently studying are how far and by what means might governments de-regulate the money market, and whether the elimination of central banks would improve economic performance. He is a regular contributor to media coverage of economic issues. Tom Velk, A. R. Riggs and Harold M. Waller (2000) "U.S. Foreign Policy During a Canadian Sovereignty Crisis: Groping in the Fog of (Diplomatic) War". See "Publications" in the menu at the left for a PDF version of this article and more on Tom Velk's writings.
Alexander Vicas
Associate Professor
Specialization: Economics of the Arts, Environmental Economics
William Watson
Associate Professor
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Specialization: Public Economics, International Trade
Biography:听William Watson has taught economics at 91黑料网 since 1977, serving听as Department chair from 2005 to 2010 and then again as Acting Chair in 2016-17. Born and raised in Montreal and educated at 91黑料网 and Yale, he is a Senior Research Fellow at Montreal鈥檚 Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP),听a Research Fellow at the C. D. Howe Institute in Toronto, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Fraser Institute in Vancouver. He is also on the Board of Advisors of Ottawa's Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In 1997 he took a 21-month leave from 91黑料网 and served as editorial pages editor of the Ottawa听Citizen. From 1998 to 2002 he edited the IRPP鈥檚 magazine,听Policy Options politiques. His 1998 book,听Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, was runner-up for the Donner Prize for best Canadian policy book of the year. His 2015 book,听The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty, was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award.听He writes weekly on economics and other matters听in the听National Post, the Ottawa听Citizen听and the Fraser Institute Blog.听In 1989 a story of his in听Saturday Night听magazine won the National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for humour.