Roger Bootle
{{Short description|British economist and columnist}}
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Roger Bootle (born 22 June 1952) is a British economist and a weekly columnist for The Daily Telegraph.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/ |title= Roger Bootle |publisher= Daily Telegraph |accessdate=12 August 2013}} He is the chairman of Capital Economics, an independent macroeconomic research consultancy. He and Capital Economics were awarded the Wolfson Economics Prize in 2012.
Background
Roger Paul Bootle was born in Watford.{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=LA8t8Z1tXZo8G8pYmhc8bQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=13 March 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford before completing his graduate studies at Nuffield College.{{cite book | title=Michaelmas Term 1974 | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=Complete Alphabetical List of the Resident Members of the University of Oxford | year=1974 | page=11 }} Bootle began his career in the academic world as a lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Career
He worked as an economist for Capel-Cure Myers and Lloyds Merchant Bank. From 1989 until 1998, he was an economist at Midland Bank/HSBC, rising to the position of Group Chief Economist of the HSBC group. During the John Major government in the 1990s, he was appointed to the UK treasury’s panel of economic forecasters under Kenneth Clarke.
Bootle founded the consultancy Capital Economics{{cite news |last=Gregory |first=Mark |date=8 December 2008 |title=A Lesson in History |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7771846.stm |work=BBC |access-date=18 July 2018 }} in 1999.{{cite news |last=White |first=Lucy |date=23 March 2018 |title=Roger Bootle's Research Firm Capital Economics Set for £95m Sale to Private Equity |url=http://www.cityam.com/282860/roger-bootles-research-firm-capital-economics-set-gbp95m |work=city a.m. |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718145002/http://www.cityam.com/282860/roger-bootles-research-firm-capital-economics-set-gbp95m |url-status=dead }} He and Capital Economics won the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize in 2012, "for the best plan for dealing with member states leaving the eurozone".{{cite news |last=Gregory |first=Mark |date=5 July 2012 |title=Wolfson Prize for Euro Exit Plan Won by Roger Bootle |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18721155 |work=BBC |access-date=18 July 2018 }}
In 2014, Bootle sold a stake in Capital Economics to part of Lloyds Banking Group; the transaction valued his company at £70 million.{{cite news |last=Kahn |first=Mehreen |date=18 October 2016 |title=Roger Bootle to step down to part-time role at Capital Economics |url=https://www.ft.com/content/a13f289d-840b-3624-ad98-e4f0e16be736 |work=Financial Times |access-date=18 July 2018 }} Two years later, he changed to being part-time chairman. Phoenix Equity Partners purchased a majority stake in the consultancy from Bootle in 2018; this valued the business at £95 million. Bootle retained his role and a reduced financial interest in Capital Economics.
Bootle is a eurosceptic and a member of Economists for Free Trade, formerly called Economists for Brexit, a group of independent economists.{{cite news |last=Shaffer |first=Leslie |date=14 June 2016 |title=Brexit Will Hit the Rest of Europe, Not Britain: Capital Economics' Roger Bootle |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/14/brexit-will-hit-the-rest-of-europe-not-britain-capital-economics-roger-bootle.html |work=CNBC |access-date=18 July 2018 }} The Trouble with Europe is among the books that he has written.{{cite magazine |last=Somerset Webb |first=Merryn |date=13 May 2015 |title=Roger Bootle: Europe Is a Complete Disaster – Britain Must Leave |url=https://moneyweek.com/roger-bootle-interview/ |magazine=MoneyWeek |access-date=18 July 2018}}
Publications
- Theory of Money, joint author with W. T. Newlyn, 1978, {{ISBN|0-19-877099-5}}
- Index-Linked Gilts - a practical investment guide, 1985, {{ISBN|0-85941-289-X}}
- The Death of Inflation, 1998, {{ISBN|1-85788-145-1}}
- Money for Nothing – Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies and the Economy of the Future, 2003, {{ISBN|1-85788-282-2}}
- The Trouble with Markets - saving capitalism from itself, Second edition, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-85788-558-3}}
- The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU Isn't Working, How It Can Be Reformed, What Could Take Its Place, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-85788-615-3}}
- The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1-47369-615-0}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.journalisted.com/roger-bootle Journalisted - Articles by Roger Bootle]
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Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford