Essentials of Economics (4th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Anne M. Garnett

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

Dr. Anthony Patrick O’Brien, award-winning researcher and professor. Tony O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. Tony has taught principles of economics for more than twenty years, in both small honors and large sections classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. O'Brien was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Tony’s research has dealt with issues such as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the development of U.S. trade policy, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of white—black income differences. Dr. O'Brien's research has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, American Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research has been supported by grants from private foundations and government agencies.

Philip Lewis

Professor Philip Lewis was a Principal Lecturer (now retired) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

R. Glenn Hubbard

Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, professor, researcher and policymaker. Dr. Hubbard is the dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and professor of economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Hubbard is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Metlife, Automatic Data Processing, and Black Rock Closed-End Funds. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, Glenn served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and chairman of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, Dr. Hubbard was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He currently serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Glenn’s fields of specialization are public economics, corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, industrial organization, public policy, macroeconomics. He is the author of more than hundred articles in leading journals, including Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Journal of Financial Economics, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Hubbard's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.