Talk:Mark Littlewood

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Politicial Viewpoint

A change was reverted for a couple of reasons – firstly it covered that he took a classical liberal viewpoint, but the paragraph above covered his being director of a ‘classical liberal’ group, so it’s partly to avoid the duplication. Also the content before it relates to being financially disinterested in the topics the Institute publish on, rather than holding no personal political opinions. The things he said on Twitter about funding obviously weren’t backed up with a link, so I’ll have to assume, but the comments about declaring donations must have related to him personally, on his personal Twitter account, as there’s solid verifiable information that the Institute makes clear that it won’t declare its funding.Marty jar (talk) 10:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Past-tensing Director General position

There have been repeated attempts today to claim that he is no longer in the Director General position.... but the one source that has been provided, from the group itself, says that he remains in position until someone is found to replace him. As such, all such past-tensing and end-dating is premature. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 00:55, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Should he be referred to as an economist?

Whilst I understand he works for the IEA, beyond his UG PPE degree he doesn't seem to have any economics qualifications so the description of him as a 'British economist' seems a bit flimsy. Granted he works for the IEA but has he published any peer reviewed research?

I hope this doesn't sound political as I am trying to make this argument from NPOV but I think it's worth making the comparison with Gary Stevenson. He's listed as a YouTuber and activist on Wikipedia but not an economist yet unlike Littlewood, Stevenson has formal economics qualifications, including an MPhil.

Littlewood would be much better be described as an activist or maybe a political and economic policy commentator? But economist? It makes me think someone connected to him might have been editing the article. Supposed (talk) 10:21, 20 August 2026 (UTC)