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Diane Coyle

Economist, Former Advisor to UK Treasury

Diane Coyle is a freelance economist and former advisor to the UK Treasury. She runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She authored the book GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History.

Written by Diane Coyle

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Growing pains

Measure a country purely against its GDP and you neglect the wellbeing of its people. Yet can that be measured?

Diane Coyle