Nicholas Barr

British economist at the London School of Economics, and author of "The Phillips Machine" (LSE Quarterly, Winter 1988) — the standard scholarly history of the MONIAC, built from LSE's own institutional archives and James Meade's personal papers. In this vault his article is both the most detailed source available on the machine's construction and funding, and the traceable origin of a widely repeated but uncited "±2%" accuracy figure that Phillips's own primary account and an independent museum-curator's description both contradict.

References

• claim-barr-1988-uncited-2-percent-accuracy-figure-contradicted-by-phillips-and-swade
• claim-moniac-400-pound-figure-is-lse-second-machines-budget-not-original-prototype
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-20-do-the-moniacs-400-build-cost-and-2.md