Graeme Maxton

Graeme Maxton
at the 2nd International Energy Summit, Athens 2008

Graeme Maxton (born June 26, 1960 in Edinburgh ) is a British economist . From 2014 to 2018 he was General Secretary of the Club of Rome .

life and work

Maxton is related to two prominent politicians in the Independent Labor Party of Scotland - James Maxton (1885–1946), a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era and member of the House of Lords , and John Maxton, Baron Maxton (born 1936), member of the House of Lords since 2004. After completing his studies, he worked from 1988 to 2002 as a visiting professor at the Cass Business School in London. He also worked for the technology consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton , Citigroup and American Express . Until 2007 he was Regional Director of The Economist Group in Hong Kong . In 2013 Maxton became a full member of the think tanks Club of Rome , based in Winterthur . The following year he was elected Secretary General at the general assembly of that institution in Mexico.

The economist's most successful book to date is The End of Progress , published in 2011. The German-language edition was entitled The Growth Lie , subtitled “Why we can no longer leave the world to politicians and economists”, and made it onto the Die Spiegel bestseller list. The book Reinventing prosperity was published in 2016 , which he wrote together with Jørgen Randers . The German-language edition appeared under the title One percent is enough (Fighting social inequality, unemployment and climate change with little growth).

In 2016 he was involved in the Capitalism Tribunal , organized by the Berlin project Haus Bartleby in Vienna.

Book publications (selection)

Driving Over A Cliff , Addison-Wesley Longman, 1995, with John Wormald
Time for a Model Change , Cambridge University Press, 2004, with John Wormald
The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us , Wiley, 2011 (also in Chinese, Romanian, Czech and German)
- The growth lie: Why we can no longer leave the world to politicians and economists , Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2012
- Konec pokroku aneb Jak nás moderní ekonomie zradila , Wolters Kluwer 2012
One percent is enough . Fight social injustice, unemployment and climate change with little growth . Report to the Club of Rome 2016, together with Jørgen Randers , oekom Verlag , Munich, ISBN 978-3-86581-810-2 .
Change! Why we need a radical change. 160 pages, Verlag Complete Media, Grünwald 2018, ISBN 978-3-8312-0474-8 .

Published contributions in other works

If all costs were taken into account. In: Haus Bartleby (ed.): The capitalism tribunal , on the revolution of economic rights (The red book). Edited by Alix Faßmann , Anselm Lenz and Hendrik Sodenkamp . Translated by Corinna Popp, Viktor Kucharski, Anselm Lenz. Haus Bartleby eV, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-70920-220-3 , pp. 95-98.

Awards

1995: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award , nomination for Driving Over a Cliff
2004: Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year for Time for a Model Change
2011: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award , nomination for The End of Progress

Further information

Web links

Commons : Graeme Maxton - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Barry Wintour: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918: A Subject Bibliography of Some Selected Aspects, p. 57, Greenengle Publishing, 2014
↑ America Pink - Graeme Maxton: Biography. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
^ House Bartleby (ed.): The capitalism tribunal , on the revolution of economic rights (The red book). Edited by Alix Faßmann, Anselm Lenz and Hendrik Sodenkamp. Translated by Corinna Popp, Viktor Kucharski, Anselm Lenz. Haus Bartleby eV, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-70920-220-3 , pp. 95-99.
↑ Books.com Taiwan ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 10, 2016 @1@ 2

↑ Spiegel Best-Seller List ( Memento of the original of July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 10, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Maxton, Graeme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British economist, former Secretary General of the Club of Rome
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh , Scotland

[1] Barry Wintour: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918: A Subject Bibliography of Some Selected Aspects, p. 57, Greenengle Publishing, 2014

[2] America Pink - Graeme Maxton: Biography. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .

[3] House Bartleby (ed.): The capitalism tribunal , on the revolution of economic rights (The red book). Edited by Alix Faßmann, Anselm Lenz and Hendrik Sodenkamp. Translated by Corinna Popp, Viktor Kucharski, Anselm Lenz. Haus Bartleby eV, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-70920-220-3 , pp. 95-99.

[4] Books.com Taiwan ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 10, 2016 @1@ 2

[5] Spiegel Best-Seller List ( Memento of the original of July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 10, 2016 @1@ 2