About our authors
Michael Parkin studied economics in England and began his university teaching career immediately after graduating with a BA from the University of Leicester. He learned the subject on the job at the University of Essex, England's most exciting new university of the 1960s, and at the age of 30 became one of the youngest full professors. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is author of the best-selling textbook, Economics (Pearson), now in its 13th Edition.
Robin Bade was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she earned degrees in mathematics and economics. After a spell teaching high school math and physics, she enrolled in the PhD program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated in 1970. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, at Bond University in Australia, 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. She is co-author with Michael of Macroeconomics (Prentice Hall), Modern Macroeconomics (Pearson Education Canada), Economics: Canada in the Global Environment, the Canadian adaptation of Parkin, Economics (Pearson), and Economics: Australia in the Global Environment, the Australian adaptation of Foundations of Economics (Pearson).
Jeff Sarbaum was an undergraduate at University of the Pacific, where he earned a BS in economics. After a short stint in the banking profession, he enrolled in the PhD program at State University of New York Binghamton, from which he graduated in 1997. As a graduate student, he was instructor for numerous small and large lecture classes. He has held faculty appointments at Whitman College, Willamette University, and is currently Senior Lecturer at the University North Carolina Greensboro. He has been instrumental in the development of online courses and programs at UNCG and has taught more than 20,000 students over his career. His research on assessment of learning and economics pedagogy appears in the Journal of Economics and Finance Education and the Southern Economic Journal.
Michael, Robin, and Jeff are dedicated to the challenge of explaining economics ever more clearly to a growing body of students.
