Look, Hugh's talking

The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, Schumpeter and Keynes, Hendry and Odey. All of these comparison and analogies come up in a couple of hours with Eclectica's Hugh Hendry

Eclectica's Hugh Hendry cut his teeth as a fund manager at Odey Asset Management where he was a partner with Crispin Odey before setting up Eclectica. He compares his economics inspiration Joseph Schumpeter to John Maynard Keynes as being like comparing the Rolling Stones to the Beatles. In a recent Radio 4 programme about Schumpeter, narrated and written by Hendry, the man he calls the greatest economist of the 20th Century was said to be the youngest professor of economics at Vienna University, a womanising bigamist who once challenged and won a fencing duel with a librarian who tried t...