Tony Curzon Price
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Tony Curzon Price, MA PhD (born 21 February 1967, son of Swiss politician and economist, Victoria Curzon-Price
and economist Gerard Curzon) is an economist and entrepreneur educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (PPE, 1st Class) and University College London (PhD, Economics). He is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy.net and online editor at Intelligence Squared
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founded the game theory consultancy company, Else Co Ltd, that designed the UK 3G telecom spectrum auctions
. His research centred on using evolutionary simulations for market design in the energy sector.
He founded Arithmatica, the electronic datapath design company in 1998 with Sunil Talwar.
While a researcher at the University College London game theory group - the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) - in the late 1990s, he became involved with the Town and Country Forum, founded by left wing activist Anthony Barnett and right wing philosopher Roger Scruton
. The TCF brought together a good part of the team that went on to found openDemocracy.net, which, like the TCF, had the vocation of convening as broadly divergent a political conversation as possible.
Victoria Curzon-Price
Victoria Curzon-Price was Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva and also at the European Institute . Her areas of interest include international trade, economic integration, institutional competition and political economy. Previously she was president of the Mont Pelerin Society...
and economist Gerard Curzon) is an economist and entrepreneur educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (PPE, 1st Class) and University College London (PhD, Economics). He is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy.net and online editor at Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared is a UK based organisation that stages debates around the world. It began in London, but now operates globally in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Ukraine and Nigeria...
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Career
He worked as an economic consultant on energy sector privatisations and with Kenneth BinmoreKenneth Binmore
Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, is a British mathematician, economist and game theorist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol ....
founded the game theory consultancy company, Else Co Ltd, that designed the UK 3G telecom spectrum auctions
Telecoms crash
The 2001 Telecoms crash is often confused with the Dot Com crash which happened at around the same time. Unlike the dot com crash however, the telecoms sector relied on long engineering research and development cycles, and the development companies on the telecom operators buying software...
. His research centred on using evolutionary simulations for market design in the energy sector.
He founded Arithmatica, the electronic datapath design company in 1998 with Sunil Talwar.
While a researcher at the University College London game theory group - the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) - in the late 1990s, he became involved with the Town and Country Forum, founded by left wing activist Anthony Barnett and right wing philosopher Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton is a conservative English philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , and A Political Philosophy: Arguments For Conservatism...
. The TCF brought together a good part of the team that went on to found openDemocracy.net, which, like the TCF, had the vocation of convening as broadly divergent a political conversation as possible.