Principles of Microeconomics

Joshua Gans holds the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; he was previously Professor of Management (information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. He studied economics at the University of Queensland and Stanford University. He currently teaches network and digital marketing strategy, but prior to his relocation to Canada he taught introductory economics and incentive theory to MBA students. Dr Stephen P King joined the Productivity Commission as a Commissioner from 1 July 2016. He was recently a Professor of Economics at Monash University in Melbourne where he also held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics from 2009-2011. N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. As a teacher, he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and principles of economics. Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behaviour, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Martin Byford is Lecturer of Economics at RMIT University. Prior to joining RMIT he was Assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Martin discovered economics during the final year of a combined Arts and Civil Engineering degree. Realising that he had made a terrible error in his choice of vocation, Martin went back to university to study economics. He completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2007. Martin's introductory microeconomics course is currently taught on RMIT campuses in Australia, Singapore and Vietnam. Joshua Gans holds the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; he was previously Professor of Management (information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. He studied economics at the University of Queensland and Stanford University. He currently teaches network and digital marketing strategy, but prior to his relocation to Canada he taught introductory economics and incentive theory to MBA students.