 | Read economics at Cambridge and post-graduate economics at Oxford. Started as an economic forecaster, gave it up because it doesn’t work. Director, Henley Centre for Forecasting 1982-92, sold the company to the advertising/PR conglomerate WPP Group Plc. Founded Volterra Consulting in 1998 to develop new ways of thinking about how the economy and society actually work. Publishes in a wide range of academic journals e.g. Physica A, Mind and Society, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Futures, Economics E-Journal, Economic Affairs. Writes on a reasonably regular basis for media such as Sunday Times, Prospect, on a variety of topics in political economy. |
Saturday 1 November 2008, 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian
Capitalism – what is it good for?
Why Most Things Fail, 2005
Butterfly Economics, 1998
Death of Economics, 1994
"Participating in the Battle was a little like entering a Bombay train at rush hour - it's a plunge into a swirl of wildly differing notions of how people should arrange themselves in a really tight situation. When you eventually emerge, you find that you're in a different place from where you started - and that you've been thoroughly energised from the journey. I can't wait to take the trip again next year."
Naresh Fernandes, editor-in-chief, Time Out India
