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==Biography:==
Nick Gardner is retired after successive careers  as a flight test observer, as a professional engineer, and  as an economist. He has worked in two industrial companies, a research establishment and four government  departments;  and served as economic adviser to four cabinet ministers. As an engineer he was engaged in aeronautical research and development  including  the development of new  manufacturing processes, he took part in the Concorde project and he visited the Apollo project. As an economist he evaluated numerous aerospace projects, he played a part in the development of UK competition policy and he managed a major statistical series. During his working life he contributed to several professional journals and symposiums on subjects including spotwelding, launching aid and project management, and since retirement he has written  a book on contemporary economic history and another on competition policy that was published in three editions.  His latest book is ''Mistakes – how they have happened and how some might be avoided''.
Nick  is mainly interested in  how people form beliefs and how they make decisions. Pursuit of that interest has led him to explore published work in the fields of philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, genetics, economics, politics, media studies, religion  and decision theory. His CZ contributions have mainly been on the economics and his principal CZ objective has been  to attract constructive criticism from fellow-economists and, with their help, to develop articles that provide a wide range of readers with a clearer perception of economic issues than can be gained from other sources.
==Planned contributions==
===Articles to complete or update===
====High priority====
{{rpl|Justice}} '''add material from Sen (2009) "The Idea of Justice"'''
{{rpl|Recession of 2008}} '''update for Q2 2009'''[[http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40104_20090227.pdf]]
{{rpl|Recession (economics)}} '''develop timeline and add Japanese recession [http://www.bis.org/publ/work188.pdf?noframes=1]'''
====Medium priority====
{{rpl|bank failures and rescues}}'''more on Nordic and Asian crises [[http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT00000DDE/$FILE/JT03260699.PDF]]'''.
{{rpl|balance of payments}} '''expand using Wolf p201'''
{{rpl|cost-benefit analysis}}
{{rpl|crash of 1929}} '''add links to subpages and complete the tutorials subpage''' '''use some of Gillian Tet's material''
{{rpl|deflation}} '''add historical data from Bordo and Filado [http://www.bis.org/publ/work186.pdf]'''
{{rpl|financial system}} '''consider reference to White [http://www.bis.org/publ/work193.pdf?noframes=1]'''
{{rpl|Liberalism}} '''see talk page''
{{rpl|money supply}} '''add paragraphs on determinants, control and economic effects'''
{{rpl|multiplier effect}}'''add text to existing opening'''
{{rpl|rent-seeking}}
{{rpl|World Trade Organisation}}
====Low priority====
{{rpl|IS-LM model}} '''develop non-technical main page and transfer maths to subpage'''
{{rpl|Market}} '''add efficient market hypothesis'''
===New articles===
===New articles===


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{{rpl|Impossibility theorem}}
{{rpl|Impossibility theorem}}
{{rpl|Social choice theory}}
{{rpl|Social choice theory}}
==Past Contributions==
Nick has made substantial contributions to CZ articles on:-
{{rpl|antitrust}}
{{rpl|applied statistics}}
{{rpl|balance of payments}}
{{rpl|banking}}
{{rpl|bank failures and rescues}}
{{rpl|Bank for International Settlements}}
{{rpl|Britain, history}}
{{rpl|crash of 1929}}
{{rpl|crash of 2008}}
{{rpl|deflation}}
{{rpl|discount rate}}
{{rpl|comparative advantage}}
{{rpl|competition}}
{{rpl|competition policy}}
{{rpl|economics}}
{{rpl|economic efficiency}}
{{rpl|Elasticity (economics)}}
{{rpl|EU competition policy}}
{{rpl|financial economics}}
{{rpl|Financial Stability Forum}}
{{rpl|Financial system}}
{{rpl|Gold standard}}
{{rpl|Government Sponsored Enterprises}}
{{rpl|Great Depression}}
{{rpl|Great Depression in Britain}}
{{rpl|Great Depression in the United States}}
{{rpl|gross domestic product}}
{{rpl|G20 summit}}
{{rpl|history of economic thought}}
{{rpl|inflation}}
{{rpl|international economics}}
{{rpl|International Monetary Fund}}
{{rpl|macroeconomics}}
{{rpl|microeconomics}}
{{rpl|money supply}}
{{rpl|National Debt}}
{{rpl|New Deal}}
{{rpl|politics}}   
{{rpl|political party}}
{{rpl|philosophy of economics}}
{{rpl|price index}}
{{rpl|production function}}
{{rpl|Public good}}
{{rpl|recession (economics)}}
{{rpl|recession of 2008}}
{{rpl|social capital}}
{{rpl|subprime mortgage crisis}}
{{rpl|supply and demand}}
{{rpl|terms of trade}}
{{rpl|Washington Consensus}}
{{rpl|welfare economics}}
{{rpl|World Bank}}
[[Category:CZ Editors|Gardner, Nick]]
[[Category:Economics Editors|Gardner, Nick]]
[[Category:CZ Authors|Gardner, Nick]]
[[Category:Philosophy Authors|Gardner, Nick]]
[[Category:Economics Authors|Gardner, Nick]]
[[Category:Politics Authors|Gardner, Nick]]
==Easily lost links==
[[CZ: Ready for approval#Economics]]
[[CZ: The Editor Role]]

Revision as of 02:55, 3 November 2009

New articles

  • Stub Taxation: The transfer of resources from the community to the government. [e]
  • Economic governance: Add brief definition or description the work of Olstrom and Williamson
  • Developing Article Fiscal policy: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e]
  • Developing Article Monetary policy: The economic policy instrument that is regularly used to stabilise the economy, and that has sometimes been used as a temporary expedient to relieve severe credit shortages. [e]
  • Developing Article Public expenditure: Spending by the public sector [e]
  • Impossibility theorem: The proof that it is impossible to devise a rational democratic voting system that is guaranteed to produce a consistent set of preferences for a group from the preferences of the people in the group. [e]
  • Developing Article Social choice theory: The study of systems of collective decision-making. [e]