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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, 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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 & policy
      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?

    • 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?

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
      Macroeconomics
      Conventional measures pose the wrong productivity question

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

    • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
      FT AlphavilleUS economy
      What's the matter with GDP?
    • Monday, 9 July, 2018
      Big tech
      We need a publicly funded rival to Facebook and Google

      The BBC stands as a model for how we can fight abuses and improve online services

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