Researching Timothy Taylor

Taylor received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and a master's degree in economics from Stanford University. At Stanford, he was winner of the award for excellent teaching in a large class (more than 30 students) given by the Associated Students of Stanford University. At Minnesota, he was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Department of Economics and voted Teacher of the Year by the master's degree students at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Taylor has been a guest speaker for groups of teachers of high school economics, visiting diplomats from eastern Europe, talk-radio shows, and community groups. From 1989 to 1997, Professor Taylor wrote an economics opinion column for the San Jose Mercury-News. He has published multiple lectures on economics through The Teaching Company. With Rudolph Penner and Isabel Sawhill, he is co-author of Updating America's Social Contract (2000), whose first chapter provided an early radical centrist perspective, "An Agenda for the Radical Middle".

Taylor is also the author of The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works, published by the Penguin Group in 2012. The fourth edition of Taylor's Principles of Economics textbook was published by Textbook Media in 2017.

Taylor made his debut in county cricket for Cheshire in the 1980 Minor Counties Championship against Durham. He began studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1979, and in 1981 made his first-class debut for Oxford University Cricket Club against Leicestershire. He made 7 further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came in the 1981 University Match against Cambridge University. In his 7 first-class matches for the university, he took 24 wickets at an average of 35.91, with best figures of 5/81. These figures, one of two five wicket hauls he took for Oxford, came against Middlesex in 1981. While attending the university, he played for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team against the touring Sri Lankans in 1981. He played a further two first-class matches in that season against the Sri Lankans, one for the Minor Counties and another for Lancashire. He made two further first-class appearances in 1981 for Lancashire, both in the County Championship against Leicestershire and Derbyshire.

He continued to play Minor counties cricket for Cheshire at this time, making his lone List A appearance for the county against Hampshire in the NatWest Trophy. In a match which Hampshire won by 6 wickets, Taylor took the wicket of Trevor Jesty, while with the bat he was dismissed for a single run by Steve Malone. As well as playing his final matches for Oxford University in 1982, he also played his final first-class match for Lancashire, which came in a County Championship match against Kent. In 4 first-class appearances for Lancashire, he took 4 wickets at an average of 47.60, with best figures of 2/63. 1982 also saw Taylor make his final Minor counties appearance for Cheshire, having made 16 Minor Counties Championship appearances.