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Notes on contributors

Introduction

Sami Daniel

Philip Arestis

John Grahl

Selected publications

Bernard Corry

Maurice Peston

PART I CONTEMPORARY LABOUR MARKETS

Changes over time in union relative wage effects in Great Britain and the United States

David G. Blanchflower

Unemployment and wages in Europe and North America

Stephen Nickell

PART II CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Malthus and method: a study in irony

Samuel Hollander

Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall: some reflections

Peter Groenewegen

On the open economy quantity theory: reflections old and new

A.R. Nobay

Monetary unions in nineteenth-century Europe: an historical perspective and lessons for EMU in the twenty-first century

Eric J. Pentecost

The invisible hand of God

Morris Perlman

PART III EXPLORATIONS OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION

QMC's terrible two: a polemical appreciation

Patrick Minford

CNAA Economics: the development of economics in the new universities

Sami Daniel

Educational reform, reaction and resources twenty-five years on

Miriam E. David

The renaissance of LSE economics: a study of our times

Meghnad Desai

`Cambridge didactic style'?

Alan E.H. Speight

When is a test a good test?

Ken Burdett

Patricia Dillon

Index