Nicholas Barr

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Nicholar Barr is a British economist, currently serving as professor of public economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). He received his Ph.D. in Economics as a fullbright scholar from the University of California, Berkley and his MSc in Economics from LSE. According to his LSE biography, he has worked for the World Bank, "from 1990-92 working on the design of income transfers and health finance in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, and in 1995-96 as a principal author of the World Bank's World Development Report 1996: From Plan to Market." He also served as adsivor to the British, Chinese and South African governments.^[1] Since 1987, he has published four editions of his series, Economics of the welfare state, the last of which was published in 2004.^[2] According to Amazon.com, he has published the following books:^[3]

• Investing in Human Capital: A Capital Markets Approach to Student Funding (2007), co-authored with Miguel Palacios Lleras
• Labor Markets And Social Policy In Central And Eastern Europe: The Accession And Beyond (2005)
• Economics of the welfare state (1987, 1993, 1998, 2004)
• The Welfare State As Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State (2001)
• Economic Theory and the Welfare State (2001)
• Financing Higher Education: Answers from the UK (2001)
• Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Transition and Beyond (1994)
• Poland: Income Support and the Social Safety Net During the Transition (World Bank Country Study) (1993)
• The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain Since 1974 (1990)
• Strategies for Higher Education: The Alternative White Paper (Hume Papers) (1989)
• Public Financing in Theory and Practice (1987)

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