David Henderson (economist)
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David Henderson was the chief economist at the OECD in Paris from 1984 to 1992. Before that he worked as an academic economist in Britain, first in Oxford (Fellow of Lincoln College) and later in University College London (Professor of Economics); as a British civil servant (first as an Economic Advisor in HM Treasury, and later as Chief Economist in the UK Ministry of Aviation); and as a staff member of the World Bank. In 1985 he gave the BBC Reith Lectures, which were published in the book Innocence and Design: The Influence of Economic Ideas on Policy (Blackwell, 1986).
Since leaving the OECD, Henderson has been an independent author and consultant, and has acted as Visiting Fellow or Professor at the OECD Development Centre (Paris), the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), Monash University, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, the University of Melbourne, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, and the Melbourne Business School. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Westminster Business School. Henderson is an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and in 1992 he was made Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
Henderson is prominent as a global warming skeptic and has been critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, particularly the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, and the Stern Review of the economics of global warming. He has also published books that strongly criticize "corporate social responsibility".
[edit] Books (selected)
- Henderson, David (2001). Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility (IEA).
- Henderson, David (2001). Anti-Liberalism 2000 (IEA).
- Henderson, David (2004). The Role of Business in the Modern World (IEA). [Page 8 contains much of the above-quoted bibliographic information.]
