User:Nick Gardner

Biography:
Nick Gardner is retired after successive careers as a flight test observer, as a professional engineer, and  as an economist. He has worked in two industrial companies, a research establishment and four government departments;  and served as economic adviser to four cabinet ministers. As an engineer he was engaged in aeronautical research and development including  the development of new  manufacturing processes, he took part in the Concorde project and he visited the Apollo project. As an economist he evaluated numerous aerospace projects, he played a part in the development of UK competition policy and he managed a major statistical series. During his working life he contributed to several professional journals and symposiums on subjects including spotwelding, launching aid and project management, and since retirement he has written a book on contemporary economic history and another on competition policy that was published in three editions. His latest book is Mistakes – how they have happened and how some might be avoided. Nick is mainly interested in  how people form beliefs and how they make decisions. Pursuit of that interest has led him to explore published work in the fields of philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, genetics, economics, politics, media studies, religion and decision theory. His CZ contributions have mainly been on the economics and his principal CZ objective has been to attract constructive criticism from fellow-economists and, with their help, to develop articles that provide a wide range of readers with a clearer perception of economic issues than can be gained from other sources.

High priority

 * Macroprudential financial policy complete paragraphs on costs and benefits and policy decisions
 * Recession of 2009 review and update
 * Applied statistics add a paragraph on statistical interpretation.

Medium priority

 * Recession (economics) develop timeline and add Japanese recession
 * bank failures and rescues more on Nordic and Asian crises [].
 * balance of payments expand using Wolf p201
 * cost-benefit analysis add material on limitations of welfare economics
 * crash of 1929 add links to subpages and complete the tutorials subpage and use some of Gillian Tet's material
 * deflation add historical data from Bordo and Filado
 * financial system consider reference to White
 * fiscal policy complete paragraphs on welfare and stabilisation
 * game theory (rename to the more convential "games theory"?) convert stub into article.
 * Liberalism see talk page
 * monetarism
 * money supply add paragraphs on determinants, control and economic effects
 * multiplier effect add text to existing opening

Low priority

 * Market add efficient market hypothesis
 * Justice add material from Sen (2009) "The Idea of Justice"

Past Contributions
Nick has made substantial contributions to CZ articles on:-

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