But the former member of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee is more than just a provocateur: His "Alice" paper presaged many of the imperfections and deficiencies in the euro's construction that have since become abundantly apparent.
The plan worries theater owners who flew into a collective rage earlier this year when Disney announced it would release Alice in Wonderland on DVD just three months after the 3-D film hit theaters.
Scope chairwoman Alice Maynard said the challenge for London 2012 was to make sure disabled people were involved not just on the track and field but throughout the Games and the celebrations.
One morning, the whole team showed up: Beadle and Blork and the junior-junior doctors whose names Titania could never remember and Alice and the nurse and another two or three mortals whose function, if it was something besides just skulking about, she never did discover.