Professor of foresight : an interview with Donald Lamberton

This is a record of an interview with Professor Donald Lamberton who is a graduate of Sydney and Oxford and throughout a long and productive career taught in New England, New South Wales, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Case Western, Queensland, Australian National University and numerous other places. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, thirty reports, sixty book chapters, forty articles and in his eighties is still supervising ten PhD students. Shortly after this interview, on Australia Day 2006, Lamberton was honoured with the award of the Order of Australia (Officer in the General Division) by the Governor General 'For service to economics, as a leading academic and researcher in the field of information economics through the multidisciplinary study of the impact of technology, information and society on economic development'. This is his story of an interesting, influential and unorthodox career path.