: About Me

At 68 I have recently retired as editor of The SA GOLFER, the organ of The South Australian Golf Association.

Prior to that I taught economics and accounting.

Eventually I became so disillusioned with economics I created The Society of Lapsed Economists. The society has always spoken with one voice.

It surprises friends when I tell them that I admire the discipline of accounting and rank the double entry bookkeeping system as equal to the rules of chess for intellectual beauty!

My passion is ...

Bird watching

I know too much about ...

Orthodox Economics

My parents always told me ...

To listen to my father

My childhood ambition ...

Play football for my school

My favorite memory ...

The first sighting of aan Australasian Grebe

Why I write ...

To test ideas

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Birds outside

My first job ...

Clerk

My best moment ...

Being told I had a way with words and should write

My inspiration ...

My friends

Business > International Business & Trade Globalization: Who benefits from it?

25 of 42

I spent Easter on King Island, off the north west coats of Tasmania. It was at the invitation of a life long friend who was bringing a highly successful career in shipping to an end and had chosen King Island as the spot to spend much of his retirement time. Through his work he covered the globe and could have chosen virtually anywhere to spend that time and as I listened to his reasons for choosing King Island and looked around I have begun to understand the wisdom of his selection. The commercial world he was leaving behind was a world driven by the need to take every opportunity to prof...

More..

• Helium Charter Member