Macroeconomics

Professor John Jackson, B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc.(Economics)(London), Ph.D.(Pennsylvania)John Jackson was most recently Professor of Economics and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT; he died in 2006. He was previously Professor and Dean of Business at RMIT from 1991-1998 and before that Associate Professor and Dean of Economics and Commerce at the University of Western Australia. John had a Masters degree in economics from London University and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania where he worked in the Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Unit. John had twenty years of experience teaching introductory economics and overseeing the delivery of large first year courses. He had been associated with this McGraw-Hill textbook on introductory economics since its first edition which appeared in 1980. Other teaching areas included public and welfare economics and John also contributed to senior leadership programs for public and private sector managers. Johns areas of research included optimal economic growth and growth policy and the role of education in growth of the Australian economy and he acted as a consultant to over twenty government agencies and private sector organisations. In addition to his academic and administrative work John was extensively involved as a board member of a number of arts and public broadcasting organisations.