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 ''

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'' in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of

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of enterprises, the fall of the

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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 ( ; ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, in ...

(the

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father of computers and

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), a column for the UK ''

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'', 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.
/ref> * Commander, Order of the British Empire, 1988.

Books

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: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More'' (1992), Random House, reprinted by the

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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
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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 ''

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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

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and Norman complied at 85th birthday party celebrated by 30 Social Business Entrepreneurs at

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