Read Economics at Cambridge University, then took the MPhil in economics and econometrics at Oxford University
Worked as a conventional economic modeller and forecaster at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London 1973-80
Became senior UK forecaster and modeller
Left for the private sector to be Head of Economic Assessment Unit at the Economist newspaper group 1980-82
1982-92 Director of Economics and Deputy MD of Henley Centre for Forecasting - helped build the Centre into a very successful commercial enterprise owned by the management team.
1992 Henley Centre sold to WPP Group Plc, a FTSE-100 company
Author of best-sellers Death of Economics 1994 and Butterfly Economics 1998
Visiting Professor of Economics, Universities of London and Manchester, 1983-1997
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