After Trinity College, Oxford, I worked as a business economist in London for a few years, then took posts as an economic advisor in various countries, including Solomon Islands. Fiji, Indonesia and Ethiopia. The standard fare of economic theory taught around the world always seemed an inadequate foundation for advice on economic policies. Starting in 1980, I researched an idea of support-bargaining and money-bargaining at the London Business School as a better explanation not just of how economies function but how societies as a whole function. My first book, 'A Theory of Support and Money Bargaining' (1984) was an outcome of this research. I returned to the theory some time later, publishing 'Getting It Right' in 2004. 'Support-Bargaining: The Mechanics of Democracy Revealed' (2008) is a more comprehensive statement of the theory. The three books published with Routledge (2013, 2016, 2019) are concerned sequentially with the connection of support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection, the evolutionary nature of economics (as opposed to the equilibrium concept of neoclassical theory) and the central role of information. The 'Starter' (2019) is an easy overview of the whole theory. A selection of journal articles, 'Aspects of Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining', is available as an e-book from the World Economics Association. The aim is to convince the world that the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining gives a far superior explanation of human social, political, economic, and intellectual behaviour than any other theory.Read more about this authorRead less about this author