Frances is a freelance writer and researcher. Her conviction that
intellectual freedom is invariably curtailed by the paymasters in a tenured post
led her to develop a broad portfolio of freelance and voluntary writing,
teaching and activism. In the late 1980s she started to concentrate upon a
postgraduate study of the work of the neglected alternative economist, Clifford
Hugh Douglas. The results of her research into guild socialism and social credit
have provided the basis for her later writing, teaching and activism.
Born in 1941 of Austrian and English parents, Frances graduated from Birmingham University in 1963. After several years engaged in teaching and social work in Africa (Sierra Leone and Zambia) and the UK she settled to family life in Yorkshire. She converted to Roman Catholicism in the mid-1990s and has since became more aware that many of the writers she has studied approached their work from a faith perspective.
As a freelance writer, academic, journalist and social activist, Frances Hutchinson has published papers and articles in academic journals and other periodicals include Resurgence, The Ecologist, and The Tablet. She is co-author of The Politics of Money, available from Pluto.
Frances's paper The Tree of Life offers an inter-faith perspective on globalisation.