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4 unusual facts about Anthony Thirlwall


Anthony Thirlwall

In 1966 he joined the new University of Kent and was appointed as Professor of Applied Economics in 1976.

Perhaps his most notable contribution has been to show that if long-run balance of payments equilibrium is a requirement for a country, its growth of national income can be approximated by the ratio of the growth of exports to the income elasticity of demand for imports (Thirlwall's Law).

Tony Thirlwall (born 1941) is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Kent.

Robert Rowthorn

Thirlwall, A. P. "Rowthorn's Interpretation of Verdoorn's Law", in Economic growth in theory and practice: A Kaldorian perspective.



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