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What is Mikeconomics?

A website -and related services (publications, seminars, links, contacts...)- aimed at providing maverick views on economics, business and values. Because economics should only work with values.

Who is Mike?

Mike Guillaume is the co-founder and manager of e.com, a company that specializes in listed company reports’ assessment and benchmarking. He has been the editor of the “Annual Report on Annual Reports” (available on www.reportwatch.net) since 1996. With headquarters in Delaware, U.S., e.com-ReportWatch head office is now in London, UK, after years of operation from continental Europe. Prior to that, his track record includes an extensive entrepreneurial (he created an enterprise at the age of 25) and management consulting experience (he worked first as a junior consultant for a Chicago-based U.S. firm); first focused on business planning for local start-ups, then on strategies for international SMEs, and lastly in the financial and energy sectors. Parallel to his career path in the private sector, he did stints in the public sector (as cabinet advisor), public-private partnerships (as manager), and the academics (as visiting professor). That blend has given him good vantage points for watching economies and economics.

Mike has a degree in political science and international economics, and trained in financial management and analysis. He has authored many articles and contributed to various publications, analyses and seminars. Born in Charleroi (Wallonia, Belgium), Mike has lived, worked and consulted in twenty-five countries (of which “just a few adopted ones”) on four continents.

Mike's views?

Mike regards himself as a progressive (or left-of-center) liberal, also close to pro-market social democrats and “Third Way” (mind the definition!) ideas.

“Liberal” also means open-minded and implies pragmatism more than fixed ideas, theories and ideologies.

He is a free-market partisan but considers, like a number of people, that the nature of capitalism has changed and that the system should either get back to its roots (sort of); and/or be reinvented, radically changed, and in any case regulated (not red-taped); and/or not invade the whole society, which needs as many breathing spaces (all meanings) as possible.

Influential figures

Mike’s Weltanschauung has been shaped by three sets of thoughts: the British economists and moral philosophers, the French Enlightenment philosophers and political scientists, and the Founding Fathers of the United States, as well as other influential figures.

Economics that rock

Some readers of Mike's book "The Seven Deadly Sins of Capitalism" have pointed out the number of references to music, musicians, songs and texts. Good point! Mike likes economics but loves music even more. Check here how economics can rock, too.

How to reach Mike?

E-mail: mike.g@mikeconomics.net

More about Mike?

A more detailed résumé is available here.

Invite Mike?

Time and workload permitting, Mike can make himself available for “TIA“ seminars, “TAP“workshops, roundtables, conferences... Drop him an e-mail!