Graeme Maxton

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Graeme Maxton

Graeme Maxton at 2nd International Energy Summit, Athens 2008
Born (1960-06-26) 26 June 1960
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation Economist, author
Member of the Club of Rome

Graeme Maxton is a Scottish-born author, economist and Member of the Club of Rome.

Biography

Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 June 1960. After attending George Heriot's School he gained a first class honours degree from The University of Abertay, majoring in economics and operations research. He has an MBA from Cass Business School in London, formally City University and is related to two prominent Scottish Labour Party politicians, James Maxton and John (Lord) Maxton.

Until May 2007 Maxton was a regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit based in Hong Kong. Prior to this he was a founding partner of strategy consultants autopolis, based in London and Singapore. He also spent several years with Booz & Co, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School on the MBA program between 1988 and 2002 where he taught courses on business strategy, retail banking and European integration. Since 2007 he has been a full-time writer, conference moderator and public speaker, based in Hong Kong and Vienna. After being elected a Fellow of the International Center of the Club of Rome in 2012, he was made a Full Member in September 2013.

Works

Maxton was a contributor to The Economist and The Economist's annual 'The World In' publication for many years and now writes for a number of international newspapers and magazines in Europe, US and Asia, including The Irish Times and South China Morning Post.[1] He is also a frequent guest host on the Asian edition of CNBC's morning news program, “Squawk Box”.

His most recent book, The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us (Wiley, 2011) was nominated for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011. The book predicts that the fallout from the 2007 financial crisis will last for decades to come. It also looks at the challenges of overpopulation and resource depletion as well as the consequences of China's emergence as a global power. The central theme of the book is that the economic growth of the last 30 years cannot return, because of excess debt and a shortage of resources, notably energy, food and water. He believes that humankind needs to identify a better and more purposeful means of tracking its progress than economic growth. The book has been translated into Chinese,[2] Czech and German, where it became a top-20[3] best seller within six weeks of being published.

Maxton's previous books include Driving Over a Cliff, (Addison Wesley Longman, 1995) co-written with Dr John Womald and also nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and Time for a Model Change, (also with Dr John Wormald) which was Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year in 2004.

Bibliography

  • Die Wachstumslüge: Warum wir alle die Welt nicht länger Politikern und Ökonomen überlassen dürfen, Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2012
  • KONEC POKROKU : aneb Jak nás moderní ekonomie zradila, Wolters Kluwer 2012
  • The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us, Wiley 2011
  • Time for a Model Change, Cambridge University Press, 2004, co-written with Dr John Wormald
  • Driving Over A Cliff, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1995, co-written with Dr John Wormald
  • Strategic Advice in the Auto Industry, Automotive World Publications, 2000
  • The automotive sectors of Asia-Pacific: After the crisis, The Economist Intelligence Unit, 1998

References

  1. ↑ South China Morning Post article, The West has no reason to be smug Retrieved 22 August 2012
  2. ↑ Books.com Taiwan Retrieved 20 August 2012
  3. ↑ Spiegel Best-seller List Retrieved 24 July 2012

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