Professor Tony Thirlwall

Tony Thirlwall is a Professor of Applied Economics. He was born in 1941 and received his higher education at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, and Clark University (USA). Virtually the whole of his academic career has been spent at the University of Kent, which he joined as a lecturer in 1966, but he has also worked as a government economic adviser, and held various visiting positions including West Virginia University (1967); Princeton University (1971-72); University of Papua New Guinea (1974); Cambridge University (1979, 1986); Melbourne University (1981, 1988), and La Trobe University (1994). He has lectured widely overseas.

For further information, see Tony's CV and his Wikipedia page.

Tony's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth51.htm

Video lectures

• Lecture in Hungary on Nicholas Kaldor 
• The importance of economic growth; the origins of modern growth theory; a critique of orthodox growth theory; structure and demand matter for economic growth; Kaldor's growth laws. 
• The endogeneity of the natural rate of growth and constraints on demand ; balance of payments constrained growth models
• The impact of trade liberalisation on the balance of payments and growth in Latin America
• The impact of trade liberalisation in Mexico and the future of the Mexican economy

Recent assignments include:

• Consultant to the Pacific Islands Development Programme in Hawaii
• African Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• UNCTAD