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I am long  retired after successive careers  as a flight test observer, as a professional engineer, and  as an economist. I have worked in two industrial companies, a research establishment and four government  departments;  and  I have served as economic adviser to four cabinet ministers. As an engineer I was engaged in aeronautical research and development  including  the development of new  manufacturing processes, I took part in the Concorde project and I visited the Apollo project. As an economist I evaluated numerous aerospace projects, I played a part in the development of UK competition policy and I managed a major statistical series. During my working life I contributed to several professional journals and symposiums on subjects including spotwelding, launching aid and project management, and since retirement I have  written several books. One was a book on contemporary economic history and another on competition policy that was published in three editions.  My latest book  ''Mistakes – how they have happened and how some might be avoided'' was published in 2007,  and I am considering  writing a second edition, including  an account of  the mistakes that led to the Great Recession.
I am long  retired after successive careers  as a flight test observer, as a professional engineer, and  as an economist. I have worked in two industrial companies, a research establishment and four government  departments;  and  I have served as economic adviser to four cabinet ministers. As an engineer I was engaged in aeronautical research and development  including  the development of new  manufacturing processes, I took part in the Concorde project and I visited the Apollo project. As an economist I evaluated numerous aerospace projects, I played a part in the development of UK competition policy and I managed a major statistical series. During my working life I contributed to several professional journals and symposiums on subjects including spotwelding, launching aid and project management, and since retirement I have  written several books. One was a book on contemporary economic history and another on competition policy that was published in three editions.  My latest book  ''Mistakes – how they have happened and how some might be avoided'' was published in 2007,  and I am considering  writing a second edition, including  an account of  the mistakes that led to the Great Recession.


==CZ Contributions==
==CZ activities==


===Aims and methods===
My early hopes of collaboration on articles with fellow-economists have been disappointed, but my early aim of filling in the gaps in CZ's coverage of the basics of economics has been met - apart from some tidying-up.  However, I have since realised that people have a need for clarification of  ongoing events, of a sort that is not fully available from the  other media, or from paper encylopedias - a need that  Citizendium is well placed to supply.  I also discovered  that Citizendium's subpage format enables the  otherwise confusingly three-dimensional character of articles that have a global reach, to be dealt with by:-<br>
(a)  an  accessible overview on the main page for the benefit of the general reader  (supported  by  statistics, theoretical analysis and diagrams  on subpages for the benefit of the more sophisticated);<br>
(b)  a  blow-by-blow chronology  on the Timelines subpage with hyperlinks to contemporary accounts to enable researchers to follow up on  matters that are too detailed for inclusion in the main page; and,<br>
(c)  a country-by-country  account on the Addendum subpage to  provide  a chronologically coherent account  of national developments (such as  would be a distracting  interruption of the  account of  global interactions  were it placed  on the main page.)<br>
I have used that format in [[Great Recession]], [[Eurozone crisis]], [[Arab Spring]] and other articles, and I have found the task of keeping such articles abreast of current developments to be a demanding one, that leaves little time for other CZ activities.
===Articles===
I have made substantial contributions to more than 80 CZ articles, of which 5 have been approved.
I have made substantial contributions to more than 80 CZ articles, of which 5 have been approved.
I accept that no more approvals are to be expected and that editorial support to authors in the politics and history workgroups is no longer available. However there is much that can be done to raise existing articles to an acceptable standard of quality.  
I accept that no more approvals are to be expected and that editorial support to authors in the politics and history workgroups is no longer available. However there is much that can be done to raise existing articles to an acceptable standard of quality.  

Revision as of 05:35, 17 November 2011

Biography:

I am long retired after successive careers as a flight test observer, as a professional engineer, and as an economist. I have worked in two industrial companies, a research establishment and four government departments; and I have served as economic adviser to four cabinet ministers. As an engineer I was engaged in aeronautical research and development including the development of new manufacturing processes, I took part in the Concorde project and I visited the Apollo project. As an economist I evaluated numerous aerospace projects, I played a part in the development of UK competition policy and I managed a major statistical series. During my working life I contributed to several professional journals and symposiums on subjects including spotwelding, launching aid and project management, and since retirement I have written several books. One was a book on contemporary economic history and another on competition policy that was published in three editions. My latest book Mistakes – how they have happened and how some might be avoided was published in 2007, and I am considering writing a second edition, including an account of the mistakes that led to the Great Recession.

CZ activities

Aims and methods

My early hopes of collaboration on articles with fellow-economists have been disappointed, but my early aim of filling in the gaps in CZ's coverage of the basics of economics has been met - apart from some tidying-up. However, I have since realised that people have a need for clarification of ongoing events, of a sort that is not fully available from the other media, or from paper encylopedias - a need that Citizendium is well placed to supply. I also discovered that Citizendium's subpage format enables the otherwise confusingly three-dimensional character of articles that have a global reach, to be dealt with by:-
(a) an accessible overview on the main page for the benefit of the general reader (supported by statistics, theoretical analysis and diagrams on subpages for the benefit of the more sophisticated);
(b) a blow-by-blow chronology on the Timelines subpage with hyperlinks to contemporary accounts to enable researchers to follow up on matters that are too detailed for inclusion in the main page; and,
(c) a country-by-country account on the Addendum subpage to provide a chronologically coherent account of national developments (such as would be a distracting interruption of the account of global interactions were it placed on the main page.)
I have used that format in Great Recession, Eurozone crisis, Arab Spring and other articles, and I have found the task of keeping such articles abreast of current developments to be a demanding one, that leaves little time for other CZ activities.

Articles

I have made substantial contributions to more than 80 CZ articles, of which 5 have been approved. I accept that no more approvals are to be expected and that editorial support to authors in the politics and history workgroups is no longer available. However there is much that can be done to raise existing articles to an acceptable standard of quality.

Easily lost links

CZ: Ready for approval#Economics

CZ: The Editor Role

CZ:Markup tags for partial transclusion of selected text in an article

CZ:Article Deletion Policy CZ:Upload

CZ:Statistics#Daily_contributors

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