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Kevin Dowd (born 1958) is a British economist whose work centres on private money, free banking and the political economy of monetary systems. Since 2012 he has been Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School. He was born in Middlesbrough, attended St Mary’s College there, and went up to the University of Sheffield in 1977 to read economics; he also holds an MA in economics from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in macroeconomics from Sheffield.

Dowd is affiliated with the Cato Institute, the Cobden Centre, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Independent Institute and the Pensions Institute at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He has previously held positions at the Ontario Economic Council, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield and the University of Nottingham. His scholarship sits broadly within the Austrian tradition, with a strong inflection from the Quantity Theory of Money and the work of Milton Friedman and David Laidler.

His public writing has called for the abolition of central banks and an end to state intervention in the financial system, and he has advised Conservative MP Steve Baker on two Private Member’s Bills addressing the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Dowd has also written extensively on financial risk measurement and on pensions and mortality modelling, including a sustained critique of the epistemic foundations of mainstream financial modelling.

Sources

• Wikipedia — Kevin Dowd (article).
• Wikidata Q16209302.

Heritage notes

Family root: diaspora-likely.

The directory threads Kevin Dowd back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.