David Hale - a sensei who will be much missed

Tokyo

IF economics was regarded by the Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle as the "dismal science", then David Hale - a highly gifted international economist who died quite suddenly last month at home in Chicago after a brief illness - was someone who helped to change that gloomy perception.

This was partly thanks to his sheer enthusiasm for his chosen profession and his ability to communicate that enthusiasm to others in his prolific writing, lecturing, debating and advising. But it was also because of his warmth and friendliness as an individual.