Economist who became a famous authority on the business of scientific innovation and the revival of ailing regionsMany practitioners of the “gloomy science” are the object of scathing criticism these days,either for having taken their eyes off the financial ball in the run-up to the banking crisis or for retreating into mathematical byways. But Barry Moore, who has died aged 74 of a heart attack, and belonged to the passe school of “applied” economists a breed always concerned with practical issues,and much in demand around the world.
His early speciality lay in regional policy – a subject that nearly fell into desuetude from the later years of Margaret Thatcher’s government, once Michael Heseltine had used development corporations to revive the fortunes of Merseyside and London Docklands, or but which now seems to believe been rediscovered by their Conservative successors.
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Source: theguardian.com