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18 May 2012

Michael Savage’s Trickle Down Tyranny is probably the nuttiest book I have ever reviewed for a mainstream publication. For a start he seriously compares Barack Obama to Lenin. You can read the review here (free registration may be required) or below. It is hard to suppress a frisson of excitement associated with doing something illicit [...]

Tags: America, book, finance, inequality, media appearances, review

Spiked review on Real Clear Books

In: Daniel In The News

10 May 2012

My recent spiked review of Pity the Billionaire is the lead item on Real Clear Books today. The site looks like a useful portal for coverage of non-fiction books.

Tags: America, book, media appearances, review, spiked

Inequality: a middle-class obsession

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18 Apr 2012

My essay on the fundamental distinction between supporting equality and curbing inequality is available on spiked Plus. To read the full essay now you need to contribute to spiked Plus – recommended if possible. Otherwise in time it will be available on spiked itself and on this website.

Tags: inequality, media appearances, spiked

Marco Visscher on the randomistas

In: Daniel In The News

31 Mar 2012

Marco Visscher has quoted me in an article in Ode magazine on the “randomistas”. In Dutch but worth putting through an electronic translator. The randomistas are development economists who focus their work on doing randomised control trials of different development projects. For example, trying to work out how to bolster school attendance or get people [...]

Tags: development, health, media appearances

Book review for Financial Times

In: Daniel In The News

30 Mar 2012

This is the text of my latest book review for the Financial Times. It is the first time I have covered anything to do with classical antiquity in my writing. Is there any way of escaping the terrible rut into which the debate about executive pay has fallen? As things stand, discussions of the subject [...]

Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review, work

Highlights of my Australian tour

In: Daniel In The News|Uncategorized

24 Mar 2012

For those who are interested here are the details of my recent Australian tour. I was invited by World Vision Australia, a worldwide community development organisation with a Christian ethos, to speak at one of the One Just World forums it organises across Australia with the International Women’s Development Agency and AusAid. Given I was [...]

Tags: Australia, china, development, economics, Europe, media appearances, speeches

Spiked review on Arts & Letters

In: Daniel In The News

25 Feb 2012

My latest spiked review on technocratic thinking is listed on Arts & Letters today.

Tags: book, environment, media appearances, review, science

English text of Novo article

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22 Feb 2012

There follows the English language text of my article on the eurozone published German in Novo online on Monday. Much of the discussion of the eurozone crisis bears as much resemblance to reality as a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. It recounts a moralistic battle of good versus evil rather than attempting a reasoned examination of [...]