John McMillan

Who was John McMillan?

John McMillan was the Jonathan B. Lovelace professor of economics in Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and one of the world's leading economic theorists and applied microeconomists. His career was initially marked by important contributions to auction theory and mechanism design. In the 1980s, he worked on the use of incentives in state owned enterprises in China and policies for emerging economies. His recent work has examined entrepreneurship in those economies, as well as the institutional structure for economic development.

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, John McMillan's undergraduate education was in mathematics and economics at the University of Canterbury. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of New South Wales before moving to the University of Western Ontario, Canada. From 1987 to 1999, he was a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to Stanford University. McMillan died on the 13 March 2007, of complications arising from cancer, at age 56.

From his Stanford bio:

A New Zealander, McMillan was the editor of the Journal of Economic Literature from 1998 to 2004.