About the authors
Eric Levin, PhD, was appointed as an Urban Studies Research Fellow in the Department of
Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in October 2005. Prior to that date he was a
Reader in the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling. Born in Scotland in
1944, he studied and worked at the University of Glasgow following a business career. His
research interests are financial economics, housing economics and labour economics.


Robert E. Wright, PhD, joined the University of Strathclyde in September 2005 as
Professor of Economics in the Strathclyde Business School. From 1995 to 2005, he was
Professor and University Chair in Economics in the Department of Economics at the
University Stirling and Vice-Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Management. From 1991 to
1994, he was Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Political Economy at
the University of Glasgow. A Canadian (born 1958), he studied at the University of
Western Ontario, the University of Michigan, the University of Stockholm and at the
National Institute of Demographic Research in Paris. His research interests are in the areas
of population economics, labour economics, inequality and poverty, financial economics,
environmental economics and applied econometrics and statistics. His publications
include over 80 articles in refereed journals, 4 books and 18 book chapters. He has been
a Visiting Professor at DELTA in Paris and at the Universities of Amsterdam and Stockholm.
He is President-elect of the Scottish Economics Society.