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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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.
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.
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
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.
Technically I am also on strike next week
But I would not have been working anyway
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?
I have listed all my funders of any significance on the blog