TIMOTHY TAYLOR has been managing editor of the prominent Journal of Economic Perspectives , published by the American Economic Association, since the journal’s inception in 1987. The AEA makes the journal freely available to the public at www.e-jep.org. Taylor is the lecturer for several recorded economics courses marketed by the Teaching Company, based in Chantilly, Virginia, including Economics (3rd edition), America and the New Global Economy , Legacies of Great Economists , and History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century . He is the author of an introductory economics textbook, Principles of Economics , published by Textbook Media. He has won student-voted teaching awards at Stanford University and at the University of Minnesota. He blogs at conversableeconomist.blogspot.com.