Prior to that he was head of global growth research at Merrill Lynch from 1998 to 2001, and before that he was head of growth research and strategy at Montgomery Securities from 1995 to 1998.
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One thing you learn from looking at the history of growth is that very dramatic things indeed need to be happening if growth per head is to be kept even as high as 2% in the leading-edge economies.
The manufacturers' organisation, the EEF, said that the Bank's decision to act now, before the third-quarter estimates of GDP and its latest inflation forecast were released, "would indicate that members believed immediate action was warranted in order to head off a deteriorating growth outlook".
Using a variety of tests, they found virtually no correlation between an individual country's GDP growth rate per head and the returns to investors.
But we're both trying to head in the same direction of growth and low deficits.
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Only on carbon emissions (thanks to rising energy consumption per head) did the high-growth countries do worse than the others.
In 2000-10 annual growth of GDP per head averaged only 0.2%.
The World Bank reckons that North Africa and the Middle East need get only 1.2% annual growth in consumption per head to halve poverty in 25 years.
Under the new law this group is to make recommendations to Congress on how to reduce the rate of growth in spending per head in Medicare if that expenditure exceeds a target figure.
Allowing for growth in population of around 1% a year, America's long-term growth in incomes per head is estimated today at between, say, 1.5% (by old-economy stick-in-the-muds) and 3% or more (by new-economy enthusiasts).
However, we are fortunate that the sizable unit development we achieved in 2010 provides us with a head start toward achieving our 2011 profit growth.
"This is one of the most important decisions my government is going to make, because it really improves Finland's competitiveness and will create new jobs, and thus also increase the economic growth, " Mari Kiviniemi, head of the country's centre-right government told AFP news agency.
What should matter, in the view of most economists, is what all this means for our rate of growth and our national income per head - in other words, what should matter is how our relationship with the EU is likely to affect our national prosperity.
Matt A. Barreto, an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington and head of Latino Decisions, said the population growth had produced a higher Latino vote in every presidential election over the last decade, a number that had the effect of masking the political apathy of many Latino voters.
Wal-Mart 's keeping its head above water by keeping prices and its international growth high.
"Provided we act with sufficient speed, we will not have to make a choice between averting climate change and promoting growth and investment, " said CBI head Richard Lambert.
In launching this, Howard Schultz, the head of the company called small business an engine for job growth that has stalled and said small entrepreneurs must have access to credit so they can hire again.
"Investors are attracted to companies that are producing 30%-40% earnings growth per year and are willing to pay a high premium to participate in this kind of growth, " says Vineet Mishra, Southeast Asia head of equity capital markets at J.
The global market has become increasingly competitive and we do not have the luxury of arbitrarily raising the costs of doing business in the U.S. If the president is serious about economic growth, then his administration should address the structural impediments head on, reining in excessive taxes and regulations while fostering an educated workforce poised to harness the benefits of innovation and technology.
If the north can persuade its graduates to stay put, rather than head down to London, it will do a lot to generate new growth.
"In the last three to four years our companies in Asia have been seeing a 20% to 30% average annual growth, reflecting the growth of the economies there, " says Dave Byers, head of ESRI, Asia-Pacific Region.
This is why Wall Street could care less about emerging markets, and cares more about the pitiful growth in the US. Funny, no quotes from the head of the US business or the head of the European business.
In the late 1990s Jared Diamond and David Landes tackled head-on the most vexing questions: why did Europe discover modern economic growth and why is its spread so limited?
Watching the descent of consumer prices this past spring, it looked like CPI growth would approach zero by the end of the summer and then head into negative territory.
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"Oshkosh is meeting weak market conditions head-on by investing in global initiatives to improve distribution in key international growth markets and reducing costs across all businesses, " said CEO Robert Bohn.
Small-cap growth guru Jim Oberweis of the Oberweis Report and Oberweis mutual funds thinks the second-half pick-up is no macroeconomic head fake, but he is letting go of stocks with sub-par growth prospects.
He remains chairman of the investment bank, a key source of growth for the company, and he will take over for Thomson as head of wealth management until a successor for Krawcheck in the chief financial officer role is found.
In an on-camera interview, the Head of Research at Barclays Capital, Larry Kantor, told me that they expect a growth rate of 2.5%-3% for the last quarter of 2010.
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