Wynne Godley

Wynne Godley
Wynne Godley
Born	2 September 1926 London, England
Died	13 May 2010(2010-05-13) (aged 83)
Nationality	British
Spouse	Kitty Garman
Academic career
Field	Monetary economics
School or tradition	Post-Keynesian economics
Influences	John Maynard Keynes, Nicholas Kaldor, James Tobin, Francis Cripps
Contributions	Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling Sectoral financial balances

Wynne Godley (26 September 1926 – 13 May 2010) was an economist famous for his pessimism about the British economy and his criticism of the British government. In 2007, he and Marc Lavoie wrote a book about the "Stock-Flow Consistent" model, an analysis that predicted the global financial crisis of 2008. Dirk Bezemer argues that Godley was notable for predicting the nature of the Great Recession of the late 2000s well in advance, and for doing so on the basis of a formal model.