Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics. The essays in this volume have been specifically commissioned and brought together to celebrate the work of Malcolm Sawyer, who has made substantial contributions in these areas.

ANDREW BUDD received a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from Trinity College (Hartford) in 2008, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 2010. His research interests include Post-Keynesian Economics, Agent Based Simulation, Data Mining and Visualization. He is now employed as a Senior Project Manager in the Technology Innovation group at ESPN, where he oversees the development of novel statistical analysis systems. KEITH COWLING is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He was previously President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO). TERESA GARCÍA DEL VALLE is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain. She has a PhD from the University of the Basque Country. Her research interests are in the area of applied statistics. She has been invited as visiting Professor by a number of Latin American universities, such as Universidad Autónoma Juan Misael Saracho (Tarija, Bolivia), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México, D.F.) and Universidad del Salvador (El Salvador). AMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT received his PhD in economics from MIT and is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of specialization are macroeconomic theory, development economics, international economics and political economy and his current research focuses on global uneven development, growth and distribution, and consumption and happiness. GERALD EPSTEIN is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. JESUS FERREIRO is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain, and an Associate Member of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the areas of macroeconomic policy, labour market and international financial flows. GIUSEPPE FONTANA is Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Leeds (UK) and Associate Professor at the Università del Sannio (Italy). He has recently been awarded the 2008 G.L.S. Shackle Prize, St Edmunds' College, Cambridge (UK). He is a Life Member Fellow at Clare Hall (University of Cambridge, UK), a Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for Full Employment and Price Stability (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA), and an Associate Member of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy (University of Cambridge, UK). CARMEN GOMEZ is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain. Her research interests are in the areas of macroeconomic policy, labour market and foreign direct investments. ILENE GRABEL is Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has been a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts since 2007. GEOFFREY C. HARCOURT was educated at the University of Melbourne and Cambridge. Half his teaching life was spent at the University of Adelaide, the other half at the University of Cambridge. He is Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Cambridge, (1998), Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (1998) and Professor Emeritus, Adelaide (1988). Currently he is Visiting Professorial Fellow, UNSW (2010-2013). PETER KRIESLER was educated at the University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge, where he also taught before moving to a full time position at the University of New South Wales, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is an executive editor of the Economic and Labour Relations Review, and on the board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the Cambridge Journal of Economics and History of Economics Review. JULIO LÓPEZ received his BA in economics at the