Read economics at Cambridge and post-graduate economics at Oxford.  Started as an economic forecaster, gave it up because it doesn’t work.  Director, Henley Centre for Forecasting 1982-92, sold the company to the advertising/PR conglomerate WPP Group Plc.  Founded Volterra Consulting in 1998 to develop new ways of thinking about how the economy and society actually work.  Publishes in a wide range of academic journals e.g. Physica A, Mind and Society, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Futures, Economics E-Journal, Economic Affairs.  Writes on a reasonably regular basis for media such as Sunday Times, Prospect, on a variety of topics in political economy.