Книга: Diane Coyle «The Weightless World Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy (Obex)»

Diane Coyle, OBE (born February 1961), is a freelance economist, and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission and Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Early life

Coyle was born in Bury, Lancashire^[1][2] and attended a grammar school, where a teacher engaged her "very sceptical and mathematical" mind with the logical way of thinking required in economics.^[2] She did her undergraduate studies at Brasenose College, Oxford reading philosophy, politics, and economics, before gaining an MA and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, graduating in 1985.^[3]

Career

Coyle was an economist at the UK Treasury from 1985 to 1986, and later became the European Editor of Investors Chronicle between 1993 and 2001 and economics editor of The Independent.

She has since written a series of books focused on both educating people about, as well as different aspects of economics. Coyle is Managing Director of Enlightenment Economics,^[4] an economic consultancy to large corporate clients and international organisations, specialising in new technologies and globalisation. Coyle is also visiting Professor at the University of Manchester's Institute for Political and Economic Governance.^[5]

Coyle is: a former member of the UK's Competition Commission;^[6] on the Executive Committee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research; the Royal Economic Society; a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and is a member of the BBC Trust.^[7][8] On 7 April 2011 the Queen approved Coyle's appointment as the Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.^[9]

Coyle was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to economics.^[10][11] She is married to BBC News' Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

Political views

In 1999, Coyle said of Britains opposed to the single European currency "the defenders of sterling are in the main a group of elderly men with more stake in their past than our future. They clothe their gut anti-Europeanism and Little Englandism in the language of rational economic argument." ^[12]

Political aide controversy

In February 2001 Coyle accepted as position as an aide to Labour's shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna. BBC Trust Head of Governance Phil Harrold, suggested "this could potentially be a significant partisan political activity", with Conservative MP Philip Davies stating Coyle's appointment to the BBC Trust had been "an inappropriate choice".^[13]

Published works

• 1997 - The Weightless World - summarised by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank Of England, as: "In sophisticated economies, output weighs less and is worth more than in the past – just like the people who make it."’^[14]
• 2000 - Governing the World Economy
• 2001 - Paradoxes of Prosperity
• 2002 - Sex, Drugs and Economics - One chapter, "Sex: can you have too much of a good thing?", reaches the miserable conclusion, "apparently, people think sex is fun" ^[15]
• 2007 - The Soulful Science: what economists really do and why it matters
• 2011 - The Economics of Enough: How to run the economy as if the future matters

References

External links

• EnlightenmentEconomics.com, Diane Coyle's own website includes list of books and major articles/publications
• BBC Trust biography
• Competition Commission biography^{[dead link]}
• Biography at LSE's economics department
• Interview at 3am magazine
• Diane Coyle articles at Prospect magazine
• Diane Coyle lecture to the Friends of the Earth
• September 2006 podcast interview re mobile phones in Africa