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Microeconomics, 7/e

John Jackson, RMIT University
Ron McIver, University of South Australia

ISBN: 0074713248
Copyright year: 2004

About the Authors

Professor John Jackson, B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc.(Economics; London), Ph.D.(Pennsylvania)

John Jackson has most recently been Professor of Economics and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT. He was previously Professor and Dean of Business at RMIT from 1991 to 1998 and, before that, Associate Professor and Dean of Economics and Commerce at the University of Western Australia. John has a Masters degree in Economics from London University and obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania where he worked in the Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Unit.

John has twenty years of experience teaching introductory economics and overseeing the delivery of large first year courses. He has been associated with this McGraw-Hill textbook on introductory economics since its first edition which was published in 1980. John's teaching has also included public and welfare economics and, in addition, he has contributed to senior leadership programs for public and private sector managers.

John's areas of research have included optimal economic growth and growth policy, and the role of education in growth of the Australian economy. He has acted as a consultant to over twenty government agencies and private sector organisations. In addition to his academic and administrative work, John has also been extensively involved as a board member of a number of arts and public broadcasting organisations.

Ron McIver, B.Ec. (Hons), M.Ec. (Flinders), M.App.Fin. (Macquarie), AIBF

Ron McIver is a Lecturer in Financial Economics in the School of International Business, and Director of the Financial Markets Research Group (FMRG) within the Centre of Business Analysis and Research (CoBAR), at the University of South Australia. Prior to joining the university, Ron was a Senior Research Officer (Economics) with the Industries Assistance Commission of the Australian Department of Treasury in Canberra. He has also held the position of Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Finance and Investment Management within the Accounting and Finance Group of the Business School at the University of Greenwich, London. Ron has provided training and advisory services in economics and finance within the banking and finance industry and the public sector, and has acted as a consultant on the design of graduate programs in business.

Ron is an experienced provider of learning resources in the area of economics, having been extensively involved in the design, development and writing of a large number of courses for both the University of South Australia and the Open Learning Agency of Australia (OLAA). He has also co-authored a number of reports, texts on economics and articles on business and economic education. In recognition of his efforts in innovation in the teaching of economics, Ron has been a recipient of a University of South Australia Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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