William Scarth

Education

BA - Honours - Economics - Queen's (Gold Medal) - 1968

MA - Economics - Essex (Commonwealth Scholarship) - 1970

PhD - Economics - Toronto (Canada Council Scholarship) - 1971

Employment/Appointments

Economics at McMaster (Assistant Professor - 1971, Full Professor - 1982)

Adjunct Professor appointments - Queen's, Waterloo and Simon Fraser

Consultant - Finance Canada, Economic Council of Canada, and Statistics Canada

Senior Fellow in Economic Policy - Reserve Bank of Australia

Research Economist - CD Howe Institute

Distinguished Visitor - Alberta, Athens, Calgary, Canterbury (NZ)

Research/Publications

Articles: 80 published papers in academic journals and policy reports -

in macroeconomics, labour economics, international trade and public finance.

Recent work concerns how globalization and the aging population challenge the ability of governments to foster both overall growth and increased equality

Books: 4 texts - ranging from Principles to Intermediate to Advanced - two single-authored, two co-authored (with Will Baumol/Alan Blinder - Princeton, and Greg Mankiw - Harvard).

There have been nineteen editions of these four books.

3 edited monographs: Deficit Reduction: What Pain? What Gain?  and Equality and Prosperity: Finding Common Ground (with Bill Robson (CD Howe)); Inflation and Unemployment: The Evolution of the Phillips Curve (with Richard Lipsey)  

Seminars

150 presentations

Teaching

McMaster University President's Award for Instruction - 1997

McMaster Student Union Lifetime Achievement Award - 1999

McMaster Student Union Oustanding Teacher in Arts and Science Award - 2012

Courses Taught in 2011

Economics 728

Arts/Sc 2E03

Recent Publications

“Employment Insurance: A Macroeconomic Comparison with Other Income-Support Initiatives” 2011 Mowat Centre (forthcoming in conference volume, but available now at: http://www.mowateitaskforce.ca/sites/default/files/Scarth.pdf

“Introduction: The History, Significance and Policy Context of the Phillips Curve,” (pages xiii – xxxvii) the editors’ critical survey/introduction article in their edited set of books Inflation and Unemployment: The Evolution of the Phillips Curve (London: Edward Elgar) - 2011. This is a three-volume (1842 pages in total) anthology of the most important papers on the Phillips curve appearing in the first 50 years following the publication of the most cited paper in macroeconomics in the 20^th century, edited with Richard Lipsey

“Aggregate Demand-Supply Analysis and Its Critics: An Evaluation of the Controversy,” Review of Radical Political Economics 42, 2010, 321-326

 “Stabilization Policy Debates: Assessing the Case for Fiscal Stimulus,” in The 2009 Federal Budget: Challenge, Response and Retrospect, edited by C. Beach, B. Dahlby and P. Hobson, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 2010, 59-80

Macroeconomics – Fourth Canadian Edition, (New York: Worth Publishers) 2010, with Greg Mankiw.

 “Some Macroeconomic Effects of Population Aging on Productivity Growth and Living Standards" in Retirement Policy Issues in Canada (edited by Abbott, Beach, Boadway and MacKinnon) John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 2009, 253-275

"What Drives Investment?" in Interpreting Macroeconomic Analysis: Issues, Questions, and Competing Views,edited by H. Bougrine and M. Seccareccia, (Toronto: Emond Montgomery) 2009, 91-100

"An Evaluation of the Working Income Tax Benefit" Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques 34:1, 2008, 25-36, with L. Tang

Macroeconomics: An Introduction to Advanced Methods, Third Edition (Nelson) 2007

“Fiscal Policy Can Raise Both Employment and Productivity” in International Productivity Monitor 11, 2005, 39-46

“Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Employment Subsidies” in Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation edited for CESifo and the IMF by J. Agell, M. Keen and A. Weichenreider, with T. Moutos (MIT Press) 195-219 (2004).

“What Should We Do About the Debt?” in Is the Debt War Over? edited by C. Ragan and W. Watson, Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2004, 243-268.

Research in Progress

 “Slower Population Growth and Average Living Standards”

 “Taxing Foreign-Owned Capital: An Application of Second-Best Analysis”

 “Sales Tax Adjustments as a Substitute for Monetary Policy Constrained by the Zero Lower Bound”

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)