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    Diane Coyle

    Diane Coyle co-directs the Bennett Institute for public policy at the University of Cambridge. She was previously a professor of economics at the University of Manchester, has served on the BBC Trust, the Competition Commission and the Migration Advisory Committee, and is the author of a number of books on economics including GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History.
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    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Permacrisis — Gordon Brown and Mohamed El-Erian’s blueprint for global governance

      Ways to fix a broken system and revamp our approach to economic management

    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      UK industrial strategy
      If the UK doesn’t play the strategic policy game, of course it will lose

      The market will deliver — but only if the government sets a consistent set of rules

      A man walking down a road in an English industrial town in 1970
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Big Con — the case against consultancies

      Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington’s polemic on the need to draw a boundary between state and private activity — and rebuild public sector capability

      A ‘UK Transition’ high visibility vest
    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      UK labour productivity
      Tax cut vows are a distraction from the UK’s woeful productivity

      The contenders to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister are ignoring the bigger issue

      Tory leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss during a televised debate
    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

      The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

      A picture of a train on a raised line passing above a shantytown
    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      ReviewEconomics books
      Cogs and Monsters and The New Economics — quests for a new model

      Two books start with the premise that our present understanding of capitalism is wrong but offer radically different solutions

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Economic forecasting
      Change is needed in the next generation of economists

      The discipline has to update its assumptions in order to meet the biggest challenges facing society

      Black and white photo shows a dentist working on a patient in the dentist’s office in the 1950s
    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Coronavirus economic impact
      The great reopening only emphasises the UK’s divergent fortunes

      We are two nations, and only one will have scope for a roaring 2020s

    • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
      ReviewEconomics books
      Mark Carney and Minouche Shafik — radical visions from the heart of the establishment

      Two new books turn Margaret Thatcher’s notions on society upside down with calls for a new social contract

      A woman holding a banner in front of the Bank of England during an ‘Occupy London’ protest
    • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
      Coronavirus economic impact
      Why optimism about the economy is so important

      Expectations for what happens to the economy shape our decisions today — and so shape the future

    • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Why economics needs to wake up to ageing populations

      Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan forecast a future of secular stagflation in The Great Demographic Reversal

    • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
      UK politics
      Building back better requires systemic shifts

      The first step is to acknowledge the failures of organisation of society and the economy

    • Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
      ReviewEconomics books
      The Economics of Belonging — can globalisation work for the left behind?

      Martin Sandbu’s prospectus is a radical plan, but where is the radical who will do it?

      MONTGOMERY, WEST VIRGINIA - A dog runs through the street in the old coal mining town of Montgomery, West Virginia, Sunday October 14, 2018. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Defining productivity in a pandemic may teach us a lesson

      How should we measure the contribution of a teacher or a health worker during this crisis?

      Lauryn Morley, a lower school substitute teacher for the Washington Waldorf School in Bethesda, Maryland, works from her home due to the Coronavirus outbreak on April 1, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. - Her role in the school changed significantly when Coronavirus hit. She was previously working part time to support teachers when they needed to be absent from the classroom and now she helps them to build skills with new digital platforms so they can continue to teach in the best way for their students and their families.The middle school (grades 6-8) has most regularly been using Zoom and the lower grades have been using Zoom with parents. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Monday, 30 March, 2020
      John Thornhill
      How Covid-19 is accelerating the shift from transport to teleport

      We are fast moving to a world where more economic activity takes place in digital form

      Members of the city commission to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vote during a meeting via Zoom video link in Lviv, Ukraine March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Roman Baluk
    • Sunday, 5 January, 2020
      Technology sector
      Artificial intelligence needs global ground rules

      It is easier to set limits while only a few players can afford the needed technology

      Face detection and recognition of man. Computer vision and machine learning concept.
    • Friday, 27 December, 2019
      UK government spending
      Johnson to overhaul public spending rules to boost UK regions

      Wellbeing of people in poorer areas to be made key investment measure as well as national growth

      MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND - APRIL 09: General view of the Tees Transporter bridge before Artist Mackenzie Thorpe unveils his sculpture ‘Waiting for Me Dad’ on April 09, 2019 in Middlesbrough, England. The bronze sculpture, inspired by the painting of the same name, sees two children standing on the Middlesbrough side of the river waiting for the gondola to return and bring their father home after a hard day’s work in the industry of the area and is a nostalgic look back to the artist’s own childhood memories from Middlesbrough. The sculpture has been created by Mackenzie Thorpe as part of the artist’s 30th year celebrations and as well as the sculpture placement Mackenzie is donating the original painting of ‘Waiting for Me Dad’ to the town. The Transporter Bridge features prominently in many of his pictures and he once worked in the shipyards on the Tees before he became an internationally-renowned artist. Mackenzie Thorpe has also been named official artist for the Tour de Yorkshire 2019 and will tour galleries throughout the UK, America and Japan. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
      Big Data
      Valuing data is tricky but crucial for the public good

      Governments and businesses mismanage what will be a key asset of modern economies

    • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
      Gig economy
      Something is seriously awry in the world of work

      Technology deregulation and the decline of unions lie behind this state of affairs

      A biker working for the Food delivery service Deliveroo cycles off to deliver an order on July 3, 2018 in Saint-Ouen, outside Paris. - Deliveroo, which delivers home-made dishes from neighborhood restaurants, has opened shared kitchens in Saint-Ouen, in the Paris region, enabling restaurateurs to test a new market, a concept that it is declining around the world. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Monday, 12 August, 2019
      Global Economy
      Why we should measure national wealth in assets

      There are problems in using gross domestic product as the metric of economic success

      LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: A woman sits in a hammock while relaxing in hot weather in St James's Park on May 15, 2019 in London, England. Forecasters are predicting days of hot weather with temperatures due to rise as high as 24c. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)
    • Sunday, 14 July, 2019
      Digital economy
      How much is a data gold mine worth?

      Businesses are waking up to the benefits but need to recognise the dangers, too

    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      Advertising
      Online advertising exploits humanity’s malleable tastes

      Traditional cost-benefit methods hide the time cost of digital business models

      19th June 1954: 'How happy is a sandboy?' According to this advertisement, not as happy as you can be in a Hillman Minx convertible, only ?510 plus tax. Original Publication: Picture Post Ad - Vol 63 No 12 P 10 - pub. 1954 (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
      Big tech
      We need tougher scrutiny of Big Tech’s data use and deals

      Tougher regulation can insure digital markets are not controlled by monopolies

    • Tuesday, 6 November, 2018
      UK universities
      A decisive moment for Britain’s universities

      It would be foolish to let institutions fail — higher education is not a market

      BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JULY 31: A general view of Bristol is seen from the roof of the Tobacco Factory on the final day of 'Upfest', Europe's largest street art festival on July 31, 2017 in Bristol, England. The annual event, in the hometown of guerrilla artist Banksy, started in 2008 and is now Europe's biggest street-art festival, attracting more than 350 artists from across the globe to live paint on walls and surfaces in 37 locations around Bedminster and Southville over three days. Some of the graffiti art work is painted on moveable boards and temporary hoardings, but murals on some venues and buildings remain all year until the next festival. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
      Macroeconomics
      Conventional measures pose the wrong productivity question

      Some economists — and the tech community — believe output is being mis-measured

      M8FDFH Vintage computers in use in offices
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