Gareth Myles is a British

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 academic economist

Economics

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. He was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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, the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 and Nuffield College, Oxford

Nuffield College, Oxford

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Current and past employment

Gareth Myles is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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 and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Institute for Fiscal Studies

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. He is an Academic Adviser to the HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs. He is one of the Managing Editors of Fiscal Studies, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory

Journal of Public Economic Theory

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, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business and Economics.

Books

• 1995: Public Economics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0-521-49721-3
• 2001: Public Economics Chinese Translation (Renmin: Chinese Renmin University Press) ISBN 7-300-03693-7
• 2006: Intermediate Public Economics co-authored with Jean Hindriks (Cambridge: MIT Press) ISBN 0-262-08344-2
• 2006: Solutions Manual for Intermediate Public Economics co-authored with Nigar Hashimzade and Jean Hindriks  (Cambridge: MIT Press) ISBN 0-262-58269-4

As editor

• 1990: Measurement and Modelling in Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland) ISBN 0-444-88515-3
• 2000: Incentives, Organisation, and Public Economics co-edited with Peter Hammond
  Peter Hammond
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    (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-924228-1
• 2003: The Economics of Public Spending co-edited with David Miles
  David Miles
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   and Ian Preston (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-926033-8