Gordon Pepper – The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices
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Author Information
Gordon Pepper has the weird mixture of an economics diploma from Cambridge and actuarial coaching. Immediately after he completed taking examinations, he turned a vendor on the Floor of the London Stock Exchange. His ‘postgraduate university’ was the market place, the place he underwent the harshest of disciplines. Forecasts primarily based on standard theories had been usually unsuitable. The inescapable conclusion was that these theories had been both incorrect or incomplete.
Pepper was the joint founder of W. Greenwell & Co’s gilt-edged enterprise (that’s, the UK authorities bond enterprise), which arguably turned one of the main bond-advisory companies on this planet, the recommendation being about each the very best investments and the optimum method to execute enterprise. For greater than ten years he was the premier analyst within the gilt-edged market and was usually described because the guru of that market. He was the principal creator of Greenwell’sMonetary Bulletin, which, within the 1970s, turned one of essentially the most broadly learn financial publications produced within the United Kingdom.
Pepper is the creator of three books and the co-author of a fourth: Money, Credit and Inflation (1990), Money, Credit and Asset Prices (1994), Inside Thatcher’s Monetarist Revolution (1998), and (with Michael Oliver) Monetarism beneath Thatcher – Lessons for the Future (2001). He can be chairman of Lombard Street Research Ltd, which is one of the UK’s main unbiased companies finishing up funding analysis and specialising in evaluation of cash, credit score and flows of funds. Summarising, Pepper’s specific energy is the mixture of practitioner and tutorial. Above all, he writes with nice authority from his data of what truly occurs within the market.
Michael J. Oliver is presently Professor of Economics at École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes and a director of Lombard Street Associates, UK.
He graduated in financial historical past on the University of Leicester and was awarded his PhD in economics and financial historical past from Manchester Metropolitan University. He has held posts on the universities of the West of England, Leeds, Sunderland and has been a Visiting Professor at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania and Colby College, Maine.
He is the creator of a number of books, together with Whatever Happened To Monetarism? Economic Policy-making and Social Learning within the United Kingdom Since 1979 (1997); Exchange Rate Regimes within the Twentieth Century (with Derek Aldcroft, 1998) and Monetarism beneath Thatcher – Lessons for the Future (with Gordon Pepper, 2001). He has simply completed co-editing a ebook (with Derek Aldcroft) entitled Economic Disaster of the Twentieth Century, which is being revealed by Edward Elgar in 2006. He has contributed articles to Economic History Review, Twentieth Century British History,Economic Affairs, Contemporary British History, Economic Review and Essays in Economic and Business History.