John Rapley

John Rapley has made a vocation of working, and living, at the frontier where theory meets practice. After beginning his career at Oxford University’s International Development Centre, he left for the developing world, where he spent the next two decades working as an academic, journalist and ultimately the co-creator and director of a policy think-tank. Along the way, he worked at universities on three continents and, upon returning to the UK, lectured at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. He now lives in London as a writer.

His most recent book is Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion and How it all Went Wrong (Simon & Schuster, 2017).