John Norbert Joseph Muellbauer, FBA (born 17 July 1944) is a British applied economist who is a professor at the University of Oxford.^[1][2]

He holds several positions at Oxford University including an Official Fellowship at Nuffield College and a professorship and senior fellowship at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He also is a fellow not only of the British Academy, but also of the Econometric Society, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and of the European Economic Association (EEA).^[3]

In 2014, Muellbauer wrote a famous call for a 'quantitative easing for people' in the Eurozone.^[4]

Selected publications

Deaton, A & Muellbauer, J (1980) Economics and Consumer Behaviour, Cambridge University Press

Deaton, A., & Muellbauer, J. (1980). An almost ideal demand system. The American economic review, 312–326.