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Roger Bootle
Born (1952-06-22) 22 June 1952 (age 72)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
SpouseSally Broomfield
Children3
Parent(s)David Bootle (1894-1972)[1]
Florence Denman
AwardsWolfson Economics Prize

Roger Bootle is a British economist and a weekly columnist for the Daily Telegraph.[2] He is currently the Managing Director of Capital Economics, an independent macroeconomic research consultancy.

Background

Roger Paul Bootle was born in Watford.[3] He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford before completing his graduate studies at Nuffield College.[4] Bootle began his career in the academic world as a lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Career

He worked as an economist for Capel-Cure Myers and Lloyds Merchant Bank. From 1989 until 1998, he was an economist at Midland Bank/HSBC, rising to the position of Group Chief Economist of the HSBC group. During the John Major government in the 1990s, he was appointed to the UK treasury’s panel of economic forecasters under Kenneth Clarke.

Bootle founded the consultancy Capital Economics[5] in 1999. It won the Wolfson Economics Prize in 2012.

Bootle is a eurosceptic and a member of Economists for Brexit, a group of independent economists.[6]

Publications

  • Theory of Money, joint author with W. T. Newlyn, 1978, ISBN 0-19-877099-5
  • Index-Linked Gilts - a practical investment guide, 1985, ISBN 0-85941-289-X
  • The Death of Inflation, 1998, ISBN 1-85788-145-1
  • Money for Nothing – Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies and the Economy of the Future, 2003, ISBN 1-85788-282-2
  • The Trouble with Markets - saving capitalism from itself, Second edition, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85788-558-3
  • The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU Isn't Working, How It Can Be Reformed, What Could Take Its Place, 2014, ISBN 978-1-85788-615-3

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Roger Bootle". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  4. ^ Michaelmas Term 1974. Complete Alphabetical List of the Resident Members of the University of Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1974. p. 11.
  5. ^ Gregory, Mark (8 December 2008). "A Lesson in History". BBC. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  6. ^ Shaffer, Leslie (14 June 2016). "Brexit Will Hit the Rest of Europe, Not Britain: Capital Economics' Roger Bootle". CNBC. Retrieved 18 July 2018.


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