John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, (born 2 February 1945) is a British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge. A former senior advisor to the Labour Party, Lord Eatwell now sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer.^[1]

Education

Lord Eatwell was educated at Headlands Grammar School in Swindon in Wiltshire, followed by Queens' College at the University of Cambridge (1964–1967), where he gained a B.A., followed by studies at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where he obtained a PhD. He subsequently returned to Queens' as a research fellow.

Career

Eatwell has held several positions within the University of Cambridge, including Professor of Financial Policy at the Judge Business School and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics: he was a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1996, when he was elected President of Queens'. With his other duties, Eatwell taught Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. He is also a member of various important national bodies. He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992^[2] and was created a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell, of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire on 14 July 1992.^[3] In 2010, he was appointed a Labour Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords by former leader Ed Miliband.^[4][5] As of 27 March 2014, he now sits as a non-affiliated peer.^[1]

Eatwell is the former chair of the British Library, a director of the Royal Opera House and the economic advisor to the Chartered Management Institute.

In May 2014, Lord Eatwell was appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath.^[6]

Personal life

In July 2006 Eatwell married Suzi Digby, founder and Principal of The Voices Foundation, a national music education charity.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray (1983). Keynes's economics and the theory of value and distribution. London New York: Duckworth. ISBN 9780715617496. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (1987). The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics. London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen. ISBN 9780333740408. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (1989). The New Palgrave: Allocation, information, and markets. New York: Norton. ISBN 9780393958546. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (1990). The New Palgrave: capital theory. New York: Norton. ISBN 9780393958553. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (1992). The new Palgrave dictionary of money & finance (3 volume set). London New York: Macmillan Press Stockton Press. ISBN 9780333527221. 
• Eatwell, John (1996). Global unemployment: loss of jobs in the '90s. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9781563245824. 
• Eatwell, John; Rosenau, James; Jelin, Elizabeth; McGrew, Anthony (1998). Understanding globalisation: the nation-state, democracy and economic policies in the new epoch: essays. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. ISBN 9789122017820. 
• Eatwell, John; Taylor, Lance (2000). Global finance at risk: the case for international regulation. New York: New Press. ISBN 9781565846388. 
• Eatwell, John; Taylor, Lance (2002). International capital markets: systems in transition. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195154986. 
• Eatwell, John; Alexander, Kern; Dhumale, Rahul (2006). Global governance of financial systems the international regulation of systemic risk. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195166989. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray (2011). The fall and rise of Keynesian economics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199777693. 

Chapters in books

• Eatwell, John (1982), "Competition", in Meek, Ronald (author); Bradley, Ian C. (editor); Howard, Michael C. (editor), Classical and Marxian political economy: essays in honour of Ronald L. Meek, London: Macmillan, pp. 203–228, ISBN 9780333321997. 
• Eatwell, John (1990), "Walras's theory of capital", in Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K., The New Palgrave: capital theory, New York: Norton, pp. 247–256, ISBN 9780393958553. 
• Eatwell, John (1995), "The international origins of unemployment", in Michie, Jonathan; Smith, John Grieve, Managing the global economy, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 271–286, ISBN 9780198289685. 
• Eatwell, John (1996), "Unemployment on a world scale", in Eatwell, John, Global unemployment: loss of jobs in the '90s, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 3–20, ISBN 9781563245824. 
• Eatwell, John (1995), "The international origins of unemployment", in Michie, Jonathan; Smith, John Grieve, Managing the global economy, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 271–286, ISBN 9780198289685. 
• Eatwell, John (1997), "Effective demand and disguised unemployment", in Michie, Jonathan; Smith, John Grieve, Employment and economic performance: jobs, inflation, and growth, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 76–94, ISBN 9780198290933. 
• Eatwell, John (1998), "The liberalisation of international capital movements: the impact on Europe, West and East", in Eatwell, John; Rosenau, James; Jelin, Elizabeth; et al., Understanding globalisation: the nation-state, democracy and economic policies in the new epoch: essays, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, ISBN 9789122017820. 
• Eatwell, John (1998), "Ethics and self-interest", in Jones, Ian; Pollitt, Michael, The role of business ethics in economic performance, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 21–30, ISBN 9780333717417. 
• Eatwell, John (2001), "New issues in international financial regulation", in Ferran, Eilis; Goodhart, Charles A.E., Regulating financial services and markets in the twenty first century, Oxford Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, pp. 235–254, ISBN 9781841132792. 
• Eatwell, John (2007), "Risk management and systemic risk", in Kołodko, Grzegorz W.; Estrin, Saul; Uvalic, Milica, Transition and beyond, New York: Pelgrave Macmillan, pp. 247–262, ISBN 9780230546974. 
• Eatwell, John (2009), "Practical proposals for regulatory reform", in Subacchi, Paola (project co-director); Monsarrat, Alexei (project co-director), New ideas for the London Summit: recommendations to the G20 leaders, London: Chatham House/Atlantic Council of the United States: Royal Institute of International Affairs, pp. 11–14, ISBN 9781862032163.  Pdf version.

Journal articles

• Eatwell, John (November 1971). "On the proposed reform of corporation tax". Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics & Statistics. Wiley Online. 33 (4): 267–274. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.1971.mp33004003.x. 
• Eatwell, John; Llewellyn, John; Tarling, Roger (October 1974). "Money wage inflation in industrial countries". Review of Economic Studies. Oxford University Press. 41 (4): 515–523. doi:10.2307/2296701. 
• Eatwell, John (May 1975). "The interpretation of Ricardo's Essay on Profits". Economica. Wiley via JSTOR. 42 (166): 182–187. doi:10.2307/2553593. 
• Eatwell, John (November 1975). "A note on the truncation theorem". Kyklos. Wiley. 28 (4): 870–875. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.1975.tb02179.x. 
• Eatwell, John (November 1975). "Mr. Sraffa's standard commodity and the rate of exploitation". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Oxford University Press. 89 (4): 543–555. doi:10.2307/1884691.  (Originally printed in Ekonomiska in 1973.)
• Eatwell, John (March 1977). "The irrelevance of returns to scale in Sraffa's analysis". Journal of Economic Literature. American Economic Association via JSTOR. 15 (1): 61–68. doi:10.2307/2722714. JSTOR 2722714. 
• Eatwell, John (March–April 1977). "Portrait: Joan Robinson". Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. via JSTOR. 20 (1): 64–65. doi:10.2307/40719515. JSTOR 40719515. 
• Eatwell, John (Spring 1980). "On the theoretical consistency of theories of surplus value: a comment on Savran". Capital & Class. Sage. 4 (1): 155–158. doi:10.1177/030981688001000110. 
• Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray (1988). "Economic theory and European society: the influence of J.M. Keynes". History of European Ideas. Taylor and Francis. 9 (2): 215–225. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(88)90042-3. 
• Eatwell, John (January 1993). "The global money trap: can Clinton master the markets?". American Prospect. The American Prospect. 4 (12): 118–126. 
• Eatwell, John (December 1993). "Citizen Keynes". American Prospect. The American Prospect. 5 (16): 115–124. 
• Eatwell, John (Spring 1994). "Institutions, efficiency, and the theory of economic policy". Social Research. The New School via JSTOR. 61 (1): 35–53. doi:10.2307/40971021. JSTOR 40971021. 
• Eatwell, John; Wallace, P. (1996). "Responses: The British economy". New Statesman (formerly New Statesman and Society). New Statesman. 9 (402): 32. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. 
• Eatwell, John; Taylor, Lance (September–October 1999). "The American stock-flow trap". Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. via JSTOR. 42 (5): 34–49. doi:10.2307/40721969. JSTOR 40721969. 
• Eatwell, John (Spring 1999). "The anatomy of the pensions 'crisis'". Capital & Class. UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. 3: 57–67.  Pdf version.
• Eatwell, John (1999). "From cooperation to coordination to control?". New Political Economy. Taylor and Francis. 4 (3): 410–415. doi:10.1080/13563469908406412. 
• Eatwell, John; Taylor, Lance (1999). "Towards an effective regulation of international capital markets". International Politics and Society / Politik und Gesellschaft. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 3: 279–286. 
• Eatwell, John (2000). "Unemployment: national policies in a global economy". International Journal of Manpower. Emerald Insight. 21 (5): 343–373. doi:10.1108/01437720010377675. 
• Eatwell, John (November 2004). "Useful bubbles". Contributions to Political Economy. Oxford University Press. 23 (1): 35–47. doi:10.1093/conpec/bzh009. 
• Eatwell, John; Izurieta, Alex; Cripps, Francis (24 December 2005). "Financial imbalances in the world economy". Economic and Political Weekly. EPW Research Foundation. 40 (52): 5453–5456. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. 
• Eatwell, John (Winter 2005). "Britain and America: ameliorating unilateralism". Social Research, special issue: Their America: The US in the Eyes of the Rest of the World. The New School via JSTOR. 72 (4): 791–798. doi:10.2307/40971794. JSTOR 40971794. 

Papers

• Eatwell, John; Ellman, Michael; Karlsson, Mats; Nuti Mario; and Shapiro, Judith. (1997) Not 'just another accession': the political economy of EU enlargement to the East. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Eatwell, John and Taylor, Lance (2000) Capital flows and the international financial architecture: a paper from the Project on Development, Trade, and International Finance. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press.
• Eatwell, John; Ellman, Michael; Karlsson, Mats; Nuti Mario; and Shapiro, Judith. (2000) Hard budgets and soft states: social policy choices in central and eastern Europe. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Eatwell, John; Kern Alexander; Persaud, Avinash; and Reoch, Robert. (2007) Financial supervision and crisis management in the EU. Brussels: European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

External links

• They Work For You profile
• Professor John Eatwell more information
• Professor Lord Eatwell Director of CERF
• Queens' College

References

1. 1 2 Lord Eatwell - TheyWorkForYou
2. ↑ BBC NEWS | Programmes | The Westminster Hour | Deja vu
3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 52994. p. 12176. 20 July 1992.
4. ↑ Labour's New Front Bench Team Archived 9 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine., Labour Party website, 22 October 2010
5. ↑ Lord Eatwell on the Parliamentwebsite, 22 October 2010
6. ↑ Lord Eatwell appointment to boost impact of University research among policy makers | University of Bath

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