Brian MacLean

MacLean, Brian

Professor

B.A. (Dalhousie)
M.A. (York)
M.A. (Tohoku, Japan)
Ph.D. (York)

Office: A328
Phone: +1-705-675-1151, ext 4225
E-mail: bmaclean@laurentian.ca

Courses 2011-2012

  • ECON 1006 Introduction to Microeconomics
  • ECON 1007 Introduction to Macroeconomics
  • ECON 2086 Canadian Economic Problems and Policies l

Research Interests

  • Canadian macroeconomic issues (unemployment, monetary policy, etc.)
  • Japanese economic issues (Japan's role in East Asian economic integration, role of Bank of Japan, land prices, consumer credit, etc.)
  • Theory of national income accounting

Representative Publications and Papers

  • Frank, Robert, Ben Bernanke, Lars Osberg, Melvin Cross, and Brian K. MacLean, Principles of Macroeconomics, 4th Cdn ed., Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2012. (Previous editions in 2009, 2005 and 2003)  
  • Frank, Robert, Ben Bernanke, Lars Osberg, Melvin Cross, and Brian K. MacLean, Principles of Microeconomics, 4th Cdn ed., Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2012. (Previous editions in 2009, 2005 and 2003)
  • MacLean, Brian K, and Michael Bradfield, “Becoming a Trained Observer of Canada’s Equalization Program,”” pp. 367-382, in H. Bougrine, I. Parker, and M. Seccareccia, eds., Introducing Microeconomic Analysis (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2010).
  • MacLean, Brian K., "Avoiding a Great Depression but Getting a Great Recession: The Bank of Japan and Monetary Policy, 1991-2004," International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2006.
  • MacLean, Brian K. and Claude Vincent, "What Has Happened to Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Canada?," paper originally presented to the 32nd Annual Conference of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association, University of Prince Edward Island, October, 19, 2003.
  • MacLean, Brian K., "The Emergence of Progressive Economics in North America," pp. 3-24, in Kenichi Haga et al, Towards a New Economics Paradigm [in Japanese], Tokyo: 2000.
  • MacLean, Brian K., "The Transformation of International Economic Policy Debate, 1997-98," pp. 67-94, in Brian K. MacLean, ed., Out of Control: Canada in an Unstable Financial World, Toronto: James Lorimer, 1999.
  • MacLean, Brian K., and Paul Bowles, "Regional Trading Blocs: Will East Asia Be Next?," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 20, No. 4 (July 1996), pp. 393-412.
  • MacLean, Brian K. and Lars Osberg, eds., The Unemployment Crisis, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
  • MacLean, Brian K. and Mark Setterfield, "Nexus or Not?: Productivity and Inflation in Canada," Canadian Business Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1993), pp. 44-52.
 
 
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