Roger E. A. Farmer is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the NBER, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Royal Economics Society,  and an Honourary Fellow of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) where he was Research Director from 2016 to 2019. He divides his time between Britain and America where he is  a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia and an Emeritus DIstinguished Professor and former Chair at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the author/editor of seven books including The Macroeconomics of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Expectations Employment and Prices,  Prosperity for All and How the Economy Works, a book for the general reader that has been translated into multiple languages.