The Economic Adviser’s Role: Scope and Limitations

There is not much mystery to the job description for an economic adviser. He is expected to give advice on economic matters. But most job descriptions it conceals more than it reveals. Unlike the Emperor, the economist does have clothes of sorts – although views differ as to whether the garb is that of a dunce, a fool or an undertaker.

 

Alan Walters - Tuesday, 27th October, 1981