Essential Foundations of Economics (8th Edition) – Solutions + Test Bank

About The Author

Michael Parkin

Dr. Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Parkin has held faculty appointments at the University of Manchester, Brown University, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the American Economic Review and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Michael Parkin’s research on microeconomics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Professor Parkin became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. He also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union.

Robin Bade

Dr. Robin Bade was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she earned degrees in economics and mathematics. After a spell teaching high school physics and math, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated in 1970.

Dr. Bade has held faculty appointments at the Bond University in Australia, University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and at the Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and Western Ontario in Canada. Her research on international capital flows appears in the International Economic Review and the Economic Record. Dr. Bade first taught the principles of economics course in 1970 and has taught it (alongside international trade and finance and intermediate macroeconomics) most years since then. Robin developed many of the ideas found in her textbooks while conducting tutorials with her economics students at the University of Western Ontario (Canada).