Diane Coyle

Diana Coyle

Diane Coyle CBE (* 1961 in Bury ) is a British economist and journalist . She runs the consulting firm Enlightenment Economics and is Vice Director of the BBC Trust . In 2009 she received the Order of the British Empire for her services in economics .

Life

Coyle first studied philosophy , politics and economics at Brasenose College ( BA , 1981) at Oxford University. In 1983 she received an MA and in 1985 a Ph.D. from Harvard University . From 1985 to 1986 she worked for the British Treasury and Commerce ( HM Treasury ), then for a year for DRI Europe. This was followed by positions at the Economist and the Investors Chronicle . From 1993 to 2001 she wrote for the Independent . From 2001 to 2009 Coyle was a member of the Competition Commission . She is also visiting professor at the University of Manchester and a member of the Migration Advisory Committee.

job

Coyle specializes in competitive analysis and the economics of new technologies and globalization . Among other things, she has published on the effects of cell phones in developing countries . She is also the author of several non-fiction books. In 2014 she published the book GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, a history of the gross domestic product.

Books (selection)

• GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History. Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780691156798
• The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters . Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-691-14518-1 .
• Sex, Drugs & Economics: A Not Everyday Introduction to Economics (German translation). Campus Verlag Frankfurt / New York, 2004. ISBN 3-593-37428-5 .
• The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters . Princeton University Press, 2009 (revised edition). ISBN 0-691-14316-1 .
• Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All . Texere, 2001. ISBN 978-1-58799-082-3 .
• The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy . The MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0-262-03259-7 .

Web links

Commons : Diane Coyle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Coyle at Enlightenment Economics