Interviewee biographies Victoria Chick is Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London. She has written extensively on money, macroeconomics (espe- cially the economics of Keynes) and methodology, in many articles and three books: The Theory of Monetary Policy (2nd edition Blackwell, 1978), Macroeconomics after Keynes: A Reconsideration of The General Theory (MIT Press, 1983) and On Money, Method and Keynes: Selected Essays (ed. P. Arestis and S. C. Dow, Macmillan, 1992). She has held many visiting posts, including the Bundesbank Visiting Professorship at the Free University, Berlin, and has served as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. She is a member of the Skidelsky Committee on Curriculum Change in Economics and is an adviser to Rethinking Economics, which campaigns for curriculum change and fosters the public understanding of economics. Professor Chick is Life President of the Association for Heterodox Economics. David Colander received his PhD from Columbia University and was the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont from 1982 to 2013 when he was appointed Distinguished College Professor at Middlebury College. In 2001–2002 he was the Kelly Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 40 books and 150 articles on a wide range of topics. His books have been translated into a number of dif- ferent languages, including Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish, Italian, and Spanish. He has been president of both the Eastern Economic Association and History of Economic Thought Society and is, or has been, on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Tim Congdon CBE has been a long-term advocate of ‘sound money’ and free markets in the UK’s public policy debates. He is currently chairman of the Institute of International Monetary Research (www .mv -pt .org), which he founded in 2014. Tim’s most influential position was a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters (the so-called ‘wise men’) between 1992 and 1997, which advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer on economic policy. He founded Lombard Street Research, one of the City of London’s leading economic research consultancies, in 1989, and was its Managing Director from 1989 to 2001 and its Chief Economist from 2001 to 2005. Tim has been a visit- vii Phil Armstrong - 9781800370890 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/26/2021 03:49:16PM via free access viii Can heterodox economics make a difference? ing professor at the Cardiff Business School and the City University Business School (now the Cass Business School), and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics between 2005 and 2007. He was awarded the CBE for services to economic debate in 1997. He is often regarded as the UK’s leading representative of ‘monetarist’ economic thinking. His books include Monetarism: An Essay in Definition (Centre for Policy Studies, 1978), Monetary Control in Britain (Macmillan, 1982), The Debt Threat (Blackwell, 1988), Reflections on Monetarism (Edward Elgar, 1992), Money and Asset Prices in Boom and Bust (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2005), Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism (Edward Elgar, 2007), How to Stop the Recession (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, 2009) and Central Banking in a Free Society (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009). His book Money in a Free Society (Encounter Books, 2011) was more specifically a response to the Great Recession. In June 2017 a collection of papers Money in the Great Recession, which Tim has edited, was published by Edward Elgar. Tim was honorary secretary of the Political Economy Club from 1999 to 2010, and chairman of the Freedom Association from 2011 to 2015. He has since 2008 been a columnist for Standpoint magazine, where he has written and com- mented about economics, but also outside the economic field which is his main interest. He has been a member of the UK Independence Party since 2007. He was runner-up in the 2010 UKIP leadership election and UKIP economics spokesman 2010–14. Paul Davidson is one of the leading representatives of the American branch of the Post-Keynesian school. He is a prolific writer and a renowned analyst of the work of J. M. Keynes. He has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, devel- oping country debt) from a position that is very critical of mainstream eco- nomics. Davidson is Holly Professor of Excellence, Emeritus at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. Besides the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tennessee, and the New School, Davidson has taught economics at Rutgers University, and the European Universities of Cambridge, Bristol, Nice, Strasbourg and Vienna. In the early 1960s he worked at Continental Oil Company. Davidson and Sidney Weintraub founded the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics in 1978. Davidson continued as editor until 2014. He is also a contributor to the Center for Full Employment and Stability. Sheila Dow is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her main academic focus is on raising methodological awareness in the fields of macroeconomics, money and banking, and the history of economic Phil Armstrong - 9781800370890 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/26/2021 03:49:16PM via free access Interviewee biographies ix thought (especially Hume, Smith and Keynes). While her career has primarily been in academia, she has held positions with the Bank of England and the Government of Manitoba, and as special adviser on monetary policy to the UK Treasury Select Committee. She has held positions such as Chair of INEM and is currently a member of the Academic Council of INET and of the Academic Advisory Board of the ISRF. Recent books include Economic Methodology: An Inquiry (Oxford University Press, 2002), A History of Scottish Economic Thought (Routledge, 2006, co-edited with Alexander Dow) and Foundations for New Economic Thinking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Kevin Dowd is Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School. He has written extensively on a number of subjects, includ- ing monetary economics, macroeconomics, banking/central banking/financial regulation, pensions, political economy and the current financial crisis, but his main interest is on the impact of the state on the financial system. He has affiliations with the Cato Institute (Washington DC), the Cobden Centre, the Independent Institute (Oakland, CA), the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), the Istituto Bruno Leoni (Milan), and the Pensions Institute (London). His most recent book, co-authored with Martin Hutchinson, is Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System (Wiley, 2010) which explains how bad ideas and vested interests caused the financial crisis. Professor Dowd is a leading advocate of the Austrian school. Roger Farmer is Research Director at NIESR, London, and Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick in the UK. He is also Distinguished Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is a world leading economist and former Senior Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. He has published numerous scholarly articles in leading academic journals, as well as books that have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese and Hungarian. He has previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the European University Institute and the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Fellow Commoner of Cambridge University, and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Economic Theory. His most recent book is Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises (Oxford University Press, 2017). Scott Ferguson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He also co-directs the Modern Money Network Humanities Division and serves as a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainability Prosperity. His writings have appeared in Screen, Boundary 2 Online, Arcade, Phil Armstrong - 9781800370890 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/26/2021 03:49:16PM via free access x Can heterodox economics make a difference? Monthly Review Online, Qui Parle, CounterPunch, Liminalities, Naked Capitalism, Radical Political Economy (URPE), Dollars & Sense, Tropics of Meta, In the Moment (Critical Inquiry), Rebelion and Contexto y Accion. His book, Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2018. Charles Goodhart CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the LSE, having previously, 1987–2005, been its Deputy Director. He was trained as an economist at Cambridge (Undergraduate) and Harvard (PhD). He then entered into a career that alternated between academia (Cambridge, 1963–65; LSE, 1967–68; again 1985–to date), and work in the official sector, mostly in the Bank of England (Department of Economic Affairs, 1965–66; Bank of England, 1968–85; Monetary Policy Committee, 1997–2000). He has worked throughout as a specialist monetary economist,