Wendy Carlin
{{Short description|Australian/ British Professor of Economics}}
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Wendy Joan Carlin, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA}} (born 1957) is a professor of economics at University College London, expert advisor to the Office for Budget Responsibility, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/wcarlin|title=Wendy Carlin|website=Institute for New Economic Thinking|language=en-us|access-date=2018-03-08}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/557|title=Professor Wendy Carlin {{!}} People|work=Oxford Martin School|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en}} Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition.{{Cite web|last=UCL|date=2018-05-15|title=Professor Wendy Carlin|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/people/fellows/professor-wendy-carlin|access-date=2021-11-13|website=UCL European Institute|language=en}}
Early life and education
Carlin was born in 1957, her father Brian Frederick Carlin was an agricultural scientist.{{Cite ODNB|title=Glyn, Andrew John (1943–2007), economist and socialist {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/99345|year = 2004}} Carlin completed her undergraduate education at Murdoch University, Australia in 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/wendycarlinucl/cv|title=CV - Wendy Carlin - UCL Economics|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2018-03-08}}{{Cite web|url=http://media.murdoch.edu.au/alumni-profile-the-professor-of-common-sense|title=Alumni profile: The Professor of common sense|website=media.murdoch.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225025346/http://media.murdoch.edu.au/alumni-profile-the-professor-of-common-sense|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-02-25}} She then went on to study for a master's degree and a DPhil degree at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, finishing in 1987. Her thesis was entitled The development of the factor distribution of income and profitability in West Germany, 1945-1973 and was supervised by Andrea Boltho.{{Cite journal|last=Wendy.|first=Carlin|date=1987|title=The development of the factor distribution of income and profitability in West Germany, 1945-1973|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b8e58734-be29-474f-9a56-80d906add35d|language=en}} In her early academic career, Carlin focused on contemporary economics and economic history, and in particular, West Germany.{{Cite book|title=Post-war European Growth: West German growth and institutions, 1945-1990|last=Carlin|first=Wendy|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996|pages=455–497}}{{Cite book|title=European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis: Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration: The Transformation of the German Model|last=Carlin|first=Wendy|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015|location=Oxford}} The statistician John Carlin is her brother.
Career
During her doctoral studies, Carlin was a lecturer in economics at Christ Church, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Alumni profile: The Professor of common sense|url=http://media.murdoch.edu.au/alumni-profile-the-professor-of-common-sense|website=Murdoch University|access-date=1 May 2018}} After her doctorate she moved to the Department of Economics at UCL where she has remained since.{{cite web|last1=Carlin|first1=Wendy|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3ZW5keWNhcmxpbnVjbHxneDo2MGY5NjVlMWY0NjVlNGJk|publisher=University College London|access-date=1 May 2018}} She was appointed professor at UCL in 2002.
In 2000, Carlin became a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Since 2011, Carlin has been a member of the expert advisory board to the Office for Budget Responsibility. Between 2000 and 2015 she was co-managing editor (with Philippe Aghion) of Economics of Transition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rmit.edu.au/events/all-events/conferences/2016/july/21st-australasian-teaching-economics-conference/module--stacked-key-people/professor-wendy-carlin|title=Professor Wendy Carlin - RMIT University|website=www.rmit.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-04-02}}
In 2013, Carlin was one of the founders of Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE), for which she is now the director. CORE is a new introductory course in economics provided free to students and teachers,{{Cite web|url=http://www.draytontribune.com/interview-with-professor-wendy-carlin/|title=Interview with Professor Wendy Carlin – Drayton Tribune|website=www.draytontribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-08}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/the-ronald-tress-memorial-lecture-trump-brexit-and-economics-1|title=The Ronald Tress Memorial Lecture: Trump, Brexit and Economics|access-date=2018-03-08}} hoping to "reform the undergraduate economics curriculum",{{Cite web|last=UCL|date=2018-05-15|title=Professor Wendy Carlin|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/people/fellows/professor-wendy-carlin|access-date=2021-11-13|website=UCL European Institute|language=en}} in which economists "will learn to use evidence from history, experiments and other data sources to test competing explanations and policies"{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/74cd0b94-4de6-11e3-8fa5-00144feabdc0|title=Economics explains our world – but economics degrees don't|last=Carlin|first=Wendy|date=2013|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-04-02}} CORE is funded by grants from various organisations, including Open Society Foundations, Friends Provident Foundation and Nuffield Foundation{{cite web|title=Who funds CORE?|url=http://www.core-econ.org/funders/|website=The CORE Project|access-date=1 May 2018}} and is based in the Economics Department at University College London.{{cite web|title=Contact us|url=http://www.core-econ.org/contact-us/|website=The CORE Project|access-date=1 May 2018}} The CORE project has produced an interactive open-access e-book for an introductory course in economics, currently being used at universities around the world such as UCL, Sciences Po, Toulouse School of Economics, Humboldt University, and many more.{{Cite web|title=Wendy Carlin - UCL Economics - CORE project|url=https://sites.google.com/site/wendycarlinucl/core-project|access-date=2021-11-13|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US}}
In 2015, she became a member of the council of the Royal Economic Society.
Carlin has written three books, all coauthored with David Soskice:{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/people/fellows/wendy-carlin|title=Professor Wendy Carlin|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}}
- Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate (1990)
- Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006)
- Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015)
The third book integrates the financial system into the macroeconomic model to allow for analysis of financial cycles as well as business cycles and growth.
Since 2019, Carlin has served as an External Professor to the Santa Fe Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/sfi-welcomes-11-new-external-researchers|title=SFI welcomes 11 new external researchers|website=www.santafe.edu/|language=en|access-date=2020-12-10}}
Awards and honours
In September 2014, Carlin was awarded an honorary degree in economics from Murdoch University.{{Cite web|url=http://media.murdoch.edu.au/honourary-degree-for-international-economist|title=Honorary degree for international economist|website=media.murdoch.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}}
In 2016, Carlin was appointed a CBE in the New Year Honours, for services to economics and public finance.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news/2016/jan/wendy-carlin-awarded-cbe-new-years-honours-list|title=Wendy Carlin awarded CBE in New Year's Honours list|website=University College London|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-12-10}}
Carlin received the 2019 Economics Network Outstanding Career Achievement in Economics Education award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/awards/sn#2019|title=Past award winners|website=Economics Network|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-12-10}}
She is also a fellow of the European Economic Association{{Cite web|title=Fellows {{!}} EEA|url=https://www.eeassoc.org/fellows|access-date=2021-03-21|website=www.eeassoc.org}} and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Professor Wendy Carlin FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/wendy-carlin-fba/ |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=The British Academy |language=en}}
Personal life
Carlin was married to University of Oxford economics lecturer Andrew Glyn, with whom she had two children. Glyn died in December 2007 from brain cancer.
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