Biography
He was the Ecology (Green) Party's economics spokesman and press secretary between 1977 and 1980 (the party office at that time being his flat in Hampstead). In 1980 he began studies in economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, completing an MSc in 1982 and a PhD on the economics of the market for positional goods in 1988. In this time, he also helped to organise the influential The Other Economic Summit (TOES).
He was Honorary Treasurer of the Soil Association from 1984, and then became that organisation's Chairman between 1988 and 1991. He was a regular contributor to Country Life magazine, and was published in Prospect and other journals, as well as in academic literature and popular newspapers. He was editor of The Countryside in 2097, published in 1997, and gave the third annual Feasta lecture in 2001.
From 1977 to 1995 he worked as an independent consultant in environmental policy and business strategy for the financial services industry. In this time he edited a manual on the formation and management of investment funds in the Former Soviet Union, which was published in 1995.
From 1995 until his death he wrote and lectured widely on the environmental and social issues which he expected to have a major impact on the global market economy in the 21st century, including oil depletion and climate change.
David Fleming died on the 29th November 2010, in Amsterdam.
For over thirty years Fleming worked on a major book, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. It was completed just before his death and published posthumously on the 7th of July 2011.
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