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Nigel Thrift - encyclopedia article about Nigel Thrift. (676 words) |
 | Professor Nigel Thrift is head of the Life and Environmental Sciences Division and Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, having held numerous posts around the world after graduating from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1971, including posts at the University of Bristol and the University of Wales, Lampeter. |
| Professor Thrift is one of the world's leading human geographers and social scientists, and is credited for coining the phrase soft modernity. |
| Thrift sits on a number of advisory committees for the UK Government, and is a member of the ESRC Research Priorities Board. |
| Paradox of thrift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (487 words) |
| The paradox of thrift is a paradox of economics propounded by John Maynard Keynes. |
| One who does not know about the paradox of thrift would fall into the fallacy of composition. |
| Although exercising thrift might be good for an individual, by enabling that individual to save for a "rainy day", it might not be good for the economy as a whole. |
