Dr Jamie Whyte

Jamie is the author of Crimes Against Logic (McGraw Hill, Chicago, 2004) and A Load of Blair (Corvo, London, 2005) and Quack Policy:abusing science in the case of paternalism (IEA 2O13).  He is a regular contributor of opinion articles to the Wall Street Journal, The Times, the Financial Times, City AM and Standpoint magazine. In 2006 he won the Bastiat Prize for journalism and was runner up in 2010.

Jamie Whyte was until recently Head of Research and Publishing at Oliver Wyman Financial Services, based in the London office. He has also worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, as a lecturer in philosophy at Cambridge University and as a Foreign Exchange trader.

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