Scottish Economy Watch

Stars Fell on Stockton

Many apologies to my readers for not posting anything for the last two years! The result of the BREXIT referendum and my retiral from the Fraser of Allander Institute led me to retreat from economics and the Scottish economy.

But I haven't been idle.

I decide to work on and finish my book on my years in a band working for US forces in France more than 50 years ago! A way perhaps of not turning my back on Europe.

The book has now been completed and published. The image of the cover is below:

Clearly, I am in the business of seeking to get people to buy it and read it, so I hope you will forgive me if I tell you that it can be purchased directly from Waterstones here or from Amazon here.

Please read and tell your friends about the book.

Thank you.

Ps I hope to start writing some thoughts on economic and related matters quite soon.

 

"It means war, son; a nuclear war"

(Non-economics post)

Reading for the weekend: my article in the Scotsman today on being a teenage member of a rock band caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The fiftieth anniversary of the start of the crisis is tomorrow.

We were playing at the US Army General Depot, Nancy close to the German border. Here is a map:

And, another photo of me (on the right) with rhythm guitarist Johnny Maunder playing at a US base at Vassincourt, near Bar-Le-Duc, two months before the crisis.