Economics Based Think Tank
The Economic Research Council, Britain's oldest economics-based think tank, is dedicated to discuss, dispute, debate and generally seek enlightenment on economic issues of all kinds.
History
The Economic Research Council was founded in 1943 as the Joint Council for Economic and Monetary Research. Its origins go back at least a decade earlier to the 1930s, when a number of prominent people, concerned at the poverty around them in the midst of plenty, started questioning the use in Britain of a monetary system that had failed the nation in the past and was liable to go on perpetuating the sequence of boom, slump, boom of the 1920s.
If orthodox economics were to blame then its basic tenets should be challenged: and the challengers should be informed citizens who made it their business to learn more about the practical aspects of economics, and to get more people to join them in this process of enlightenment.
The Council is a registered charity
The part the Council seeks to play in the economic life of the nation is to be an agent for change, promoting improvements in the working of the economic system, particularly in regard to money and credit. The activities of the Council are all intended to reflect and develop this role.
Economic Research Council - Officers
President - The Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Chairman - Damon de Laszlo
Vice-Presidents - Professor Tim Congdon, Professor Brian Reading, David B. Smith, Dr Peter Warburton.
Hon. Secretary - Jim Bourlet
Head of Masters Committee - William de Laszlo
Programme Coordinator - Greg Opie
Executive Committee
Damon de Laszlo (Chairman)
Tony Baron
Jim Bourlet
Peter L. Griffiths
Robert McGarvey
Dulcibel McKenzie
Christopher Meakin
Howard Mighell
John Mills
William de Laszlo
Masters Committee
William de Laszlo
Jonathan Butt
Greg Opie
Robyn Scott
David Hobson
Dan Madden
Toby Cross
Maria Palomar
