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Diane Coyle

Diane Coyle is professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge and a research theme lead at The Productivity Institute. 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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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Healthcare
    What the NHS can learn from Formula 1

    Improving the UK health service requires thinking about the entire end-to-end chain of events

    María Hergueta illustration of people tidying up and cleaning the NHS logo
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Measure of Progress by Diane Coyle — has GDP run its course?

    A timely argument that AI, geopolitical tensions and global production networks demand a new statistical infrastructure

    An aerial view of cars awaiting transportation. From this distance they look like an abstract grid made up of small pieces
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    ReviewScience books
    Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty — the case for better evidence in post-evidence times

    Mathematician Adam Kucharski on the trust policymakers place in logic and why algorithms are not always the answer

    A TV gameshow, where the host (a man in a suit) is talking into a microphone next to a 1960s green American car, while a woman and a man contestants (he with a piece of handwritten paper stuck to his chest) stand next to the host
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Global Economy
    How to provide evidence in turbulent times

    Hostility to researchers’ analysis is undermining reasoned policymaking

    U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    ReviewEconomics books
    Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism — Big Tech’s walled gardens

    Philipp Staab’s exploration of how tech giants operate like the colonising East India Company offers a nuanced critique of the fast-developing digital economy

    A streets sign on a New York street advertising Apple products
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    UK Spring Budget 2024
    Jeremy Hunt and the fiscal headroom fallacy

    If the UK chancellor acts on a short-term perspective he will be ignoring the basic dynamics of growth

    Engineers stand on a boring machine during tunnelling work for HS2. Financial markets will not look kindly on the sort of political decision-making that has afflicted the rail project
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Global Economy
    Britain needs a new public body to spur productivity

    This would help in tackling the country’s chronic under-investment and policy churn

    Montage of intermeshed cogs in the foreground with a fed graph line running through them against a background of the UK Houses of Parliament
  • 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

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