About

John O'Connor's lineage, OconEco's research note, and how to work with us.

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About OconEco

OconEco was founded by John O’Connor. The career timeline below spans 60 years of designing decision-support systems for measuring what countries — and later, smaller jurisdictions — actually have.

Career timeline

Year	Role	Institution
1964	Joined as one of the first designers of computerized economic data systems	IMF
1968	Contributor to the System of National Accounts (SNA)	UN Statistical Commission
1970s	Field work on national accounting in Bolivia and other Latin American economies	IMF
1986	Chief of Comparative Analysis and Data; built the World Bank DataBank	World Bank
1995	Led MEP 1995 — the methodological program that pioneered the Changing Wealth of Nations	World Bank
2006–present	Founder, OconEco. Long-form development of the FAND balance-sheet framework.	OconEco
2025–present	FAND public release: 200+ countries, 1950–2025, plus US state and county extensions	OconEco

FAND is the continuation of MEP 1995 — what the Changing Wealth of Nations would look like if you could rebuild it with modern data, modern compute, and the lessons of three decades watching what worked and what didn’t.

AI-augmented research

FAND’s pace and breadth — 128 builder scripts, 200+ countries, 3,258 US counties, a closed balance-sheet identity verified to $0.000000 — would not be possible without close collaboration with AI tooling. The methodological decisions are John’s; the codification, validation, and documentation are done in tight loops with AI assistants. The decision is John’s; the typing is shared. We say this explicitly because the institutional audience deserves to know how the work gets done.

Contact

The contact form lives at /contact/.

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Working with OconEco

OconEco’s commercial work brings the FAND framework to specific decisions where comprehensive wealth accounting outperforms GDP-anchored analysis. Typical engagements include regional balance-sheet assessments for economic-development authorities, place-based capital-allocation reviews for institutional investors, and analytic-tool design for organizations managing natural-resource or human-capital portfolios.

We’re based in NE Florida and take a small number of new engagements per quarter. To discuss whether your problem fits, use the form below — or email Sean O’Connor at sean@oconeco.com directly. Either way, please include a one-paragraph description of the decision you’re trying to inform.