Dictionary Of Economics

Graham Bannock is a graduate of the London School of Economics and author of several books on finance and business. He has worked in market research for Ford and Rover, and in economic research at the OECD and the Economist Intelligence Unit, of which he was managing director. He is now with Bannock Consulting Ltd., an economic research company in London. He is co-author of The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, and two of his other books, The Juggernauts: the Age of the Giant Corporation and How to Survive the Slump, are also published by Penguin. Ron Baxter graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in economics. He worked first with the International Nickel Company and Hoover Ltd. and, subsequently, at the Electricity Council in London. He was Director of Economics and Statistics at the National Ports Council for many years, where he was engaged in port planning, forecasting international trade and the appraisal of investment projects, as well as the development of port statistics. In 1981 he jointly founded Baxter Eadie Ltd., specializing in the appraisal of port investment projects worldwide. He has acted as economic consultant for a wide range of private corporations and international institutions. Evan Davis graduated in politics, philosophy and economics from St John's College, Oxford in 1984. He continued his studies as a Harkness Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University between 1986 and 1988, obtaining a Master's in Public Administration. He has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and as a member of the faculty at the London Business School. In 1993 he was appointed as an economies correspondent at the BBC. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the think-tank the Social Market Foundation, for which he has published numerous papers and reports.