John Quiggin

John Quiggin is a professor of economics at the University of Queensland, Australia and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us (Princeton University Press, 2010).


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Global Governance

Greece's Uncertain Fate

| 05.21.12

The question isn't whether Greece will abandon the euro. It's whether Greece will be forced to abandon the euro—and what the fallout would be.

Economics

European Elections and the Debt Debacle

| 05.11.12

Saving Europe from the debt crisis will require overhauling the ECB and the euro zone.

Security

The Steep Path to a Nuclear Future

| 04.25.12

The costs of nuclear power—and especially of disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima—far outweigh the technology's potential benefits.

Economics

The Next Global Collapse

| 04.17.12

The lessons we should have learned from the recent economic meltdown.

Global Governance

Don't Fear Fracking

| 04.04.12

Energy debaters have found an easy target in this relatively new, scary-sounding technology. Don't be fooled by the heated rhetoric.

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