Dr. Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Parkin has held faculty appointments at the University of Manchester, Brown University, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the American Economic Review and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Michael Parkin’s research on microeconomics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Professor Parkin became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. He also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union.