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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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  • 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

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

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

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  • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
    FT AlphavilleUS economy
    What's the matter with GDP?
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