Nov 2015 Saxon Brettell - Economics & Financial Planning
Mon, Nov 23rd 2015 at 5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Speaker Saxon Brettell on economics. Speaker Host - Roger Birchinall, Cashier - Maureen, General Host - Richard de Horsey. VENUE - Westminster College.
We start with the Induction of our newest member - Stefanie Kroeber !
Our subject for the evening :
Title: "'The future ain't what it used to be' - a forward-looking history of economic prediction."
This will look (with wry humour) at how well economists and others have anticipated the future and how they might do better.
Speaker: Saxon Brettell is a Cambridge-based consultant economist who has had a long (and mostly well-paid) career advising private and public sector clients on their economic futures. MD Piametrics.
http://www.piametrics.com/about
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