Norman Alastair Duncan Macrae (1923 – 11 June 2010) was a British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best
forecasters when it came to economics and society.
Career
Macrae joined ''
The Economist
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'' in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of
nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. He contributed to the books ''The Third World War: August 1985'' (1978) and ''
The Third World War: The Untold Story'' (1982), both attributed to
General Sir John Hackett but mostly written by several collaborators.
Not to get bored, Macrae's first ten years in retirement produced the biography of
John von Neumann
John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...
(the
mathematical
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father of computers and
networks
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Science and technology
* Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
* Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks
Mathematics
...
), a column for the UK ''
Sunday Times'', and a 'Heresy Column' for ''Fortune''.
He was the father of mathematician, marketing commentator, and author Chris Macrae. 2025 REPORT, their joint future history on death of distance first published in 1984, forecast that 2005–2025 would be humanity's most critical decades, irreversibly impacting sustainability. The last update of 2025 Report was published in Swedish in 1993 as Den Nye Vikingen
Honours
*
Order of the Rising Sun, with Gold Rays, 1988.
[Macrae, Norman. (2000)]
''John von Neumann: the Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More'', Random House (1992), reprinted by the American Mathematical Society (2008), p. 406.
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* Commander, Order of the British Empire, 1988.
Books
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* ''John von Neumann
John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...
: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More'' (1992), Random House, reprinted by the American Mathematical Society
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, 2008, .
Notes
External links
The Norman Macrae Archive
A Collection of his Articles and Books
NormanMacrae.com the first fan web
started by scots and friends from Singapore and al
spaces eastNorman Macrae Ning
Where Entrepreneurial Revolution Networks, started in 1976, converge to debate how to make 2010s youth's most productive decade – with access to all Norman's signed surveys but not the other 3000 leaders he wrote for ''The Economist
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''
Entrepreneurial Revolution
For over 4 decades: friends of Norman Macrae have been compiling one of the most complete sources – to map where economics is taking humanity, inspired by the Hippocratic Oath that Keynes demanded of his final alumni conditioned by his finding that the world would increasingly be ruled only by economics.
Future Economists Network
Obituaries and invitations to continue unfinished networking goals like those that Muhammad Yunus
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and Norman complied at 85th birthday party celebrated by 30 Social Business Entrepreneurs at Royal Automobile Club
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and those that a remembrance dinner to norman hosted by japan embassy in dhaka and featurin
Fazle Abed
on the future o
university coalitions
designed to empower women's sustainability development goals
ongoing millennials projects
of Norman Macrae Foundation include family of regional webs aiming to linking reporting of economists of end poverty in time for 175th celebration mediating that in 2018
1923 births
2010 deaths
British business and financial journalists
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
The Economist people
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