Frank Stilwell is professor emeritus in political economy at the University of Sydney, where he began teaching in 1970. He is a well-known critic of conventional economics and an advocate of alternative economic strategies for social justice and ecological sustainability. Frank has written a dozen books on political economic issues and co-edited half a dozen others. His next book is The Political Economy of Inequality. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the coordinating editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, vice president of the Evatt Foundation and executive member of the Council for Peace with Justice.