Professor Martin Ricketts is Professor of Economic Organisation and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Buckingham. He is also Chairman of the IEA’s ...view moreProfessor Martin Ricketts is Professor of Economic Organisation and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Buckingham. He is also Chairman of the IEA’s Academic Advisory Council. He has a DPhil from the University of York (1980) and was Research Economist at the Industrial Policy Group from 1970 to 1972 under the direction of John Jewkes. He was Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of York (1974–77). He has published in professional journals on the new institutional economics, the theory of the firm, entrepreneurship, public choice, aspects of public finance and housing policy, and has authored several books. He was Economic Director of the National Economic Development Office (1991–2).view less