Diane Coyle runs the economic consulting firm Enlightenment Economics. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission and a visiting professor at the University of Manchester. Among her books are Sex, Drugs and Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics (Texere, 2002) and The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy (MIT Press, 1998). Her most recent book is The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Recent articles

Economics is an exciting, innovative discipline that has moved far beyond the arid stereotypes of its critics, says Diane Coyle.

‘Get your facts right’ says Diane Coyle to Friends of the Earth (FoE) – business is far from evil or unduly powerful. The bad behaviour of a few companies will be solved by better corporate governance rules. In the fifth of our introductory texts to the debate Corporations: Power and Responsibility, Diane Coyle argues that FoE’s push for heavy regulation on a sector already subject to rising tax burdens would be a spanner in the engine of global growth and prosperity.