About Diane Coyle

Diane Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is a BBC Trustee and member of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the independent Higher Education Funding Review panel, and was for eight years a member of the Competition Commission (until September 2009). She is also visiting professor at the University of Manchester. She has a PhD from Harvard.

What’s the Use of Economics?

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If economics emerges from the Global Crisis unchanged, it will lose all credibility. That is certainly not the view of all economists, but many do think so. There are plenty of examples of criticism of our subject from within and without. Some are ill-informed rants, but others – such as the recent article ‘Economics in [...]