Introduction
Research, teaching, editing, consulting, industry, finance, public service and university administration are the eight principal activities that economists may undertake in their professional careers.
Many do two or three of these. Just a few, at some point or other, might end up having done as many as four or five. But very rarely more. At various stages of his life, John Vickers has done all eight, and with real distinction.The structure of this chapter is as follows. Sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 explore each of those activities. The sequence starts with industrial experience (Section 2) and turns to consulting (Section 3). Then Section 4 goes back to Vickers' early life and studies up to the end of his undergraduate course at Oxford. Section 5 is substantial; it covers research and research partnerships, as well as academic papers specifically within the general area of industrial organisation. Editing, a briefer section, follows at Section 6, and then finance at Section 7. Public service is discussed in Section 8, teaching in Section 9, and the last of the eight activities, university administration, forms the subject matter of Section 10.
P. Sinclair (1946-2020)
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 R. A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_30