Anthony Michael Charles Waterman

A.M.C. Waterman (born 4 June 1931) is a Canadian economist known for his research on the eighteenth and nineteenth-century history of Christian theology and economic theory – the same period that C.S. Lewis and J.M. Keynes both identified as that in which Christianity fell away from the British intellectual worldAnna M Carabelli and Mario A. Cedrini, "Great Expectations and Final Disillusionment: Keynes, 'My Early Beliefs' and the Ultimate Values of Capitalism," Cambridge Journal of Economics 2018, 42, 1183-1204; and C.S. Lewis, De Descriptione Temporum (Inaugural Lecture from The Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, 1954), in They Asked for a Prayer: Papers and Addresses (London, 1962, p. 9). 
Waterman is a Retired Fellow in St. John's College, Winnipeg, and Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba. See "A. M. C. Waterman," http://amcwaterman.com for extended biography and complete list of his publications. See Faith, Reason and Economics: Essays in Honour of Anthony Waterman for a collection of essays in his honor.Derek Hum (ed.), Faith, Reason and Economics: Essays in Honour of Anthony Waterman, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2003. 
== Biography ==
Waterman was born in Southampton, England and educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton. Between school and entrance into Cambridge University, he served in the Royal Artillery as a Second Lieutenant. During his last year as an undergraduate at Cambridge, his tutor was the noted economist Joan Robinson. He graduated with Honours.
In 1954, Waterman migrated to Canada and found work as an accounting auditor in Sarnia, Ontario. After his marriage in 1955 to Margaret Elizabeth Sinclair, they moved to Montreal, where Anthony found work as a business economist. In 1959, having decided to test his vocation to the priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada, he and his family moved to Winnipeg, where Anthony joined St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba, lecturing in Economics while studying theology. In 1962, he graduated with a B.Th. and was ordered to the diaconate. Upon his ordination to the priesthood in 1963, the Archbishop of Rupert’s Land decided that Waterman should serve an academic rather than a parochial ministry, indicating that the Church needed his expertise as an economist.
Between 1964 and 1967, a Commonwealth Research Scholarship enabled Waterman to undertake his doctoral research in economics as a Research Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, where he was supervised by Trevor Swan. He also served as a Tutor in Theology at https://stmarks.edu.au/ (1965). In Australia he met Geoffrey Brennan (an undergraduate at the time), which began a lifelong interaction between the two economists regarding the relation of Christian theology and economics (sprinkled liberally with singing). They collaborated on small conferences on the topic of Christian theology and economics, as well as the publication of a collected volume of Paul Heyne’s various essays on the same topic.
Upon his return to Winnipeg in 1967, Waterman resumed his duties as Associate Professor of Economics, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, and also served as Honorary Assistant Priest at several Anglican parishes in Winnipeg. He chaired a national task force on the economy for the Anglican Church from 1973-1977, and served also as a consultant to the World Council of Churches and the Church of England Doctrine Committee. In 1983 he was called upon again by the Anglican Church of Canada to chair a committee and write its brief to the Macdonald Royal Commission, entitled “The Scourge of Unemployment.” At various points, he was called to serve again as a lecturer in theology at St. John's College (1975–1976, 1988, and 2003–2006).
In 1979, he was elected to the Maurice Reckitt Fellowship in Christian Social Thought at the University of Sussex, during which time he studied the emergence of the “economic way of thinking” (the title of Heyne's textbook) out of historical and theological modes of thought. In 1982, Waterman resigned from the priesthood, and devoted the remainder of his career to research on the relation between economic theory and Christian theology, focusing especially on 18th and 19th century English intellectual history. He regards his subsequent research on Christian social and economic thought as a continuation of his vocation as a Christian and an Anglican. He also served his University as Director of its Institute for the Humanities (1992–1995, 1998–2000) and held visiting appointments at Cambridge (Senior Member, Robinson College, 1986 to the present), the Australian National University (1991), and Boston College (2002).
== Recognition ==
In 2007, Waterman's work was recognized by the History of Economics Society with selection as a Distinguished Fellow of the Society. In 2014 he was elected Honorary Member of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought.
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