Philip Arestis is Professor and Director of Research at the Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He is also Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, USA, and Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute, New York, USA. He has published as sole author or editor, as well as co-author and co-editor, a number of books, contributed in the form of invited chapters to numerous books, produced research reports for research institutes, and has published widely in academic journals.

Malcolm Sawyer is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK. He was the principal investigator for the European Union funded (8 million euros) five-year research project Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development, involving 15 partner institutions acrossEurope and more widely. He was the managing editor of the International Review of Applied Economics for over three decades. He has published widely in books, co-edited books, chapters and research papers in heterodox and ecological macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, financialisation, and industrial policy.