We may never get the inside dope, but clearly Sir Nicholas Stern's time in Whitehall did not quite turn out quite as he might have hoped. Sir Nick was appointed appointed head of the Government Economic Service and Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury in October 2003, after a stint as Chief Economist at the World Bank.
He was presumably meant to take some of the burden off then-Treasury Permanent Secretary Gus O'Donnell. But before long, he was off heading up the Commission for Africa, followed soon after by his review of the economics of climate change.
Now it is reported that he is to move to a new Professorship at the LSE, heading up a new India Observatory. Stern may not have won the Whitehall turf war, but one can't help thinking that by playing a key role in two vital issues of our time, he may have actually done more good for the world than if he'd stayed tucked behind a desk at Horse Guards Road. A real 'civil service'.
The question is whether he jumped or was pushed.
For a broadly supportive yet critical review of the Stern Report on climate change by an expert environmental economist in this area see the link below.
I suspect, now that the dust is beginning to settle that the government are increasinly unimpressed with the quality of the analysis in the Stern Report.
Make you own minds up by reading the 5000 word Maddison review of the Stern report.
http://globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com/2006/12/maddison-on-stern-critical-review.html
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