Sir Alan Walters | |
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Born | Leicester, England | 17 June 1926
Died | 3 January 2009 | (aged 82)
Nationality | British |
Spouse |
Margaret Patricia Wilson
(m. 1975) |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics |
Institution | |
School or tradition | Monetarism |
Alma mater | |
Influences | Ernest Cassel |
Part of the politics series on |
Thatcherism |
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Sir Alan Arthur Walters (17 June 1926 – 3 January 2009) was a British economist who was best known as the Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1983 and (after his return from the United States) again for five months in 1989.