Career
Butler graduated from the University of St Andrews in the 1970s; he has degrees in philosophy, economics and psychology. He worked on pensions and welfare issues for the United States House of Representatives in Washington DC, before returning to the UK where he served as editor of the British Insurance Broker monthly before devoting himself full-time to the Adam Smith Institute, which he helped found in 1977. His brother is Stuart Butler.
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