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He wrote a book that analysed the UK's relationship with the EU back in 2005. It's pretty technical and thorough. It concludes that the UK is better off out, at the cost of its farming,fishing and manufacturing industries. I don't agree with a lot of its content, but it was a thorough and interesting opinion.
The thing is, fast forward to 2019 and Minford is 76 years old and when he speaks about Brexit he just parrots things he wrote in 2005. For me, if an academic hasn't changed his opinions one iota over nearly fifteen years, that's a really big alarm bell.
By all accounts he is a very nice man in person, but you can't help feel that he's just an old man desperately trying to stay relevant and hold on to his past successes.
That said, some people I know say that he's been full of shit since the 80s so maybe I'm being too kind.