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February 12, 1961

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Dame Diane Coyle is a British economist, academic and writer. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute.
Coyle's early career as an economist was followed by a period in journalism including being economics editor at The Independent from 1993 to 2001. She was professor of economics at University of Manchester from 2014 to 2018. She was vice-chair of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2016 and a member of the UK Competition Commission from 2001 until 2009.
Coyle has written nine books on economics. ...more

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July – monthly reading round-up

I was full of good intentions about reviewing some books at greater length in July, as term had ended, but it turned out meetings hadn’t ended. In any case, most of the books I read were non-work, listed below. But I did read Jeremy Adelman’s new book, The Capitalist Era. Very long-standing readers of this blog might remember that his biography of Albert Hirschman, Worldly Philosopher, won the sec

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	GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History 3.66 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be 3.64 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex, Drugs & Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics by Diane Coyle, Victoria Tietze Larson (Editor), Myles Thompson (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters 3.43 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters 3.31 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters 3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's the Use of Economics?: Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It turns out from a number of more recent studies that reported happiness is strongly positively linked with the change or growth in GDP per capita from year to year.”
― Diane Coyle, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

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“Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

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“GDP is the way we measure and compare how well or badly countries are doing. But this is not a question of measuring a natural phenomenon like land mass or average temperature to varying degrees of accuracy. GDP is a made-up entity. The concept dates back only to the 1940s.”
― Diane Coyle, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History

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