Creedy, John 1949–

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Creedy, John 1949–

PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1949. Education: University of Bristol, B.Sc., 1970; Balliol College, Oxford, B.Phil., 1972.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

CAREER: University of Durham, Durham, England, lecturer in economics, 1972–73; University of Reading, Reading, England, lecturer in economics, 1973–77; National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, England, research officer, 1977–78; University of Durham, Durham, England, professor of economics, 1978–87, department head, 1980–83; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Truby Williams professor of economics, 1987–. Pennsylvania State University, professor, 1986–87.

MEMBER: Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (fellow).

WRITINGS:

State Pensions in Britain, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1982.

(With others) Economics: An Integrated Approach, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1984.

Dynamics of Income Distribution, Blackwell Publishing (Oxford, England), 1985.

(With R. Disney) Social Insurance in Transition: An Economic Analysis, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1985.

Edgeworth and the Development of Neoclassical Economics, Blackwell Publishing (Oxford, England), 1986.

Demand and Exchange in Economics: A History from Cournot to Marshall, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1992.

Income, Inequality, and the Life Cycle, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1992.

The Economics of Higher Education: An Analysis of Taxes versus Fees, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1995.

Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare: An Analysis of Alternative Tax and Transfer Schemes, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1996.

General Equilibrium and Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1996.

(With M. Baker and D. Johnson) Financing and Effects of Internationalisation in Higher Education: An Australian Country Study, Australian Government Publishing Service (Canberra, Australia), 1996.

The Statics and Dynamics of Income Distribution in New Zealand, Institute of Policy Studies (Wellington, New Zealand), 1997.

(With Antonia Cornwell) Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare: Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1997.

(With José Alvarado) Population, Ageing, Migration, and Social Expenditure, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

The Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty: Comparing Income Distributions, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

Pensions and Population Ageing: An Economic Analysis, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

Measuring Welfare Changes and Tax Burdens, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

The History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

Development of the Theory of Exchange, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1998.

Labour Mobility, Earnings, and Unemployment: Selected Essays, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1999.

Modelling Indirect Taxes and Tax Reform, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1999.

Taxation and Economic Behaviour: Surveys in Economics, Volume 1, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2001.

Nonlinear Models, Labour Markets, and Exchange: Introductory Surveys in Economics, Volume 2, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2002.

Modelling Income Distribution, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2002.

(With A.S. Duncan, R. Scutella, and M. Harris) Microsimulation Modelling of Taxation and the Labour Market: The Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2002.

Contributor to economic journals.

EDITOR

The Economics of Unemployment in Britain, Butterworths (London, England), 1982.

(With B. Thomas) The Economics of Labour, Butterworths (London, England), 1984.

(With D.P. O'Brien) Economic Analysis in Historical Perspective, Butterworths (London, England), 1984.

Foundations of Economic Thought, Blackwell Publishing (Oxford, England), 1990.

(With Jeff Borland and Jürgen Eichberger; and contributor) Recent Developments in Game Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1992.

(With M. Casson) Industrial Concentration and Economic Inequality, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1993.

(With V.L. Martin) Chaos and Nonlinear Models in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1994.

(And contributor) Taxation, Poverty, and Income Distribution, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1994.

The Economics of Ageing, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1995.

(With V.L. Martin) Nonlinear Models in Economics: Cross-sectional, Time Series, and Neural Network Applications, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1997.

Measuring Welfare Changes, two volumes, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1999.

(With R. Backhouse) From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 1999.

Editor or coeditor, Australian Economic Review, 1989–2000; associate editor of Review of Income and Wealth, Bulletin of Economic Research, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Economic Inequality, FinanzArchiv, and Australian Journal of Labour Economics.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Economic Record, March, 1994, William Coleman, review of Demand and Exchange in Economics: A History from Cournot to Marshall, p. 99; December, 1997, Rabee Tourky, review of General Equilibrium and Welfare, p. 394; June, 1998, Ian Lowe, review of Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare: Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions, p. 203.

International Migration Review, fall, 1999, Jacques Poot, review of Population Ageing, Migration, and Social Expenditure, p. 767.

National Tax Journal, December, 1994, Robert I. Lerman, review of Taxation, Poverty, and Income Distribution, pp. 893-896.

Southern Economic Journal, January, 1994, James W. Friedman, review of Recent Developments in Game Theory, p. 770; January, 1996, Donald E. Frey, review of The Economics of Higher Education: An Analysis of Taxes versus Fees, p. 897; October, 1999, Sandra L. Snow, review of Measuring Welfare Changes and Tax Burdens, p. 498.