[b]Howard R. Vane[/b] is Professor of Economics in the Liverpool Business School at Liverpool John Moores University where he has been lecturing since 1973. He is a graduate of Liverpool University and has an MA(Econ) from Manchester University. His main teaching and research interests lie in the area of macroeconomics (in particular the origins, development and current state of macroeconomics) and his work in this field has been translated and published in Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Polish. He has co-authored/co-edited twenty one books and has had articles published in a wide range of journals including the American Economist, Economics and Business Education, Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics, World Economics and World Economy. His most recent books (with Brian Snowdon) include A Modern Guide To Macroeconomics : An Introduction To Competing Schools Of Thought (Edward Elgar,1994), A Macroeconomics Reader (Routledge,1997), Reflections On The Development Of Modern Macroeconomics (Edward Elgar,1997), Conversations With Leading Economists : Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics (Edward Elgar,1999), An Encyclopaedia of Macroeconomics (Edward Elgar, 2002) and Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State (Edward Elgar, 2005). With Chris Mulhearn, he has written two major introductory textbooks - Economics, (Macmillan,1999), Economics for Business (Palgrave, 2001); two monographs - The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics: An Introduction to Their Careers and Main Published Works (Edward Elgar, 2005), The Euro: Its Origins, Development and Prospects (Edward Elgar, 2008); and is currently co-editing a series of volumes on the Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics, Volumes I-V (Edward Elgar, 2009). He is co-editor (with Mark Blaug) of the fourth edition of Who's Who in Economics (Edward Elgar, 2003). Page: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/LBS/92601.htm