New appointment

Posted on May 18 2016

I have a policy of making clear my appointments and sources of income if they are likely to impact on my work. I have today been appointed as a non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics. This is a decidedly part time appointment. I am unlikely to be paid more than £2,000 a year.

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8 Responses

  1. PSR says:
    May 18 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Good luck and please do share any insights gleaned from your involvement with us when you can.

  2. Min Clifford says:
    May 19 2016 at 8:13 am

    Well done Richard, I hope it brings you some joy & respect! It’s a pity that our government doesn’t have the same integrity as you for declaring independent wealth & family pots of money. We might trust them a bit more.

  3. Ivan Horrocks says:
    May 19 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Don’t I recall you being very scathing of econometrics in the past – and indeed in a very recent blog or comment, Richard? It’s certainly an approach to economics that has been central to the demise of the study of political economy – which it largely replaced in most universities. And speaking personally it was the most boring of the various strands of economics I studied when I did my degree.

    • Richard Murphy says:
      May 19 2016 at 3:04 pm

      Ivan

      If econometrics in isolation is used as the answer to the question then the question will not be answered: this is my concern with the dominance of econometrics in university departments

      But data is still key to economic understanding and modelling has a role – so long as intellgence is applied to the inputs and outputs

      Cambridge Econometrics is a university spin put where it seems those conditions apply

      R

      • Ivan Horrocks says:
        May 19 2016 at 3:11 pm

        Agreed. And good to hear it’s a university spin out (put?). Hope progress is being maintained with the book. Exam and Award Boards are distracting me at present – and two days of strike action next week to further slow progress completing my new module. However, a stand has to be made. Cheers.

      • Richard Murphy says:
        May 19 2016 at 4:55 pm

        Technically I am also on strike next week

        But I would not have been working anyway

  4. Brian O'flanagan says:
    May 20 2016 at 4:46 pm

    For true transparency, isn’t it more appropriate for others to view everyone who is funding your work and for them to decide which of these might be deemed to impact your independence?