Andrew John Scott is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at London Business School,[1] known for his work on longevity and macroeconomics. Previously he was a lecturer at Oxford University, a visiting professor at
Harvard University and a researcher at the London School of Economics.
He worked briefly as an economist for
Credit Suisse First Boston before holding research positions at London Business School and the
London School of Economics. He then took up a lectureship at Oxford University, a visiting assistant professor at
Harvard before joining London Business School, where he is currently professor of economics, having previously served as deputy dean.[3] The first half of his academic career focused on business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy and debt management but since the popular success of his book The 100 Year Life his academic, policy and advisory work has been in the area of longevity and ageing. In 2024, he published The Longevity Imperative.
Alongside his academic career Scott has been a non-executive director for the UK’s
Financial Services Authority and an advisor on monetary and fiscal policy to the House of Commons, the
Bank of England, and
H.M.Treasury. He is currently on the advisory board of the UK’s
Office for Budget Responsibility, a member of the Cabinet Office Honours Committee (Science and Technology) and has been an advisor to a range of organisations around the issue of longevity.
Selected publications
Scott, Andrew J (2024) The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives, Basic Books 2024.
ISBN1-3998-0105-8[4]
The Economic Value of Targeting Aging (with David Sinclair, Martin Ellison), Nature Aging 2021[5]
The Longevity Society and The Longevity Economy, The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2021[6][7]
Government Debt Management: The Long AND the short of it (with Elisa Faraglia,
Albert Marcet, Rigas Oikonomou), Review of Economic Studies 2019[8]
Gratton, Lynda & Scott, Andrew (2016) The 100-year life: living and working in an age of longevity, Bloomsbury 2016.
ISBN978-1-4729-3015-6[9]
Miles, David; Scott, Andrew; Breedon, Francis (9 April 2012). Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN978-1-119-99571-5.
Debt and Deficit Fluctuations and the Structure of Bond Markets (with
Albert Marcet) Journal of Economic Theory, 2009[10]
Consumer Confidence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents' Beliefs Consistent with the Theory? (with
Daron Acemoglu) Economic Journal, January 1994, 104, 1-19[11]
References
^"Andrew Scott". London Business School. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
^Miles, David; Scott, Andrew; Breedon, F.J. (21 May 2012). Macroeconomics : understanding the global economy (Third ed.). Chicester, West Sussex.
ISBN9781119995722.
OCLC756596996.{{
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^Scott, Andrew J. (14 March 2024). The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives. Basic Books.
ISBN978-1-3998-0105-8.
^Scott, Andrew; Oikonomou, Rigas; Marcet, Albert; Faraglia, Elisa (2018). "Government Debt Management: The Long and the Short of It". The Review of Economic Studies.
doi:
10.1093/restud/rdy061.
hdl:10261/175468.
S2CID18583986.
^Gratton, Lynda; Scott, Andrew (2 June 2016). The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity. London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN978-1-4729-3015-6.
^Acemoglu, Daron; Scott, Andrew (1994). "Consumer Confidence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents' Beliefs Consistent with the Theory?". The Economic Journal. 104 (422): 1–19.
doi:
10.2307/2234671.
JSTOR2234671.