William Davies is Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is author of three books, most recently Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World (Jonathan Cape, 2018). His writing is available at www.williamdavies.blog
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe uses and abuses of 'happiness'The happiness 'movement' has the potential to transform society, but do its proponents know what they're doing?...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future MattersDiane Coyle’s The Economics of Enough is an eerily calm introduction to the severity of our economic situation....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHappiness and productionWhat is progress? Could our societies grow richer but everyone get more miserable? Is output the best measure of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho is the fairest of them all? Nick Clegg? A short philosophical report on the torture of a simple wordA brief critique of the abuse of the term 'fairness' in British politics.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBook review: Them and Us by Will HuttonWill Hutton’s latest book on British political economy is uncannily of its time. In arguing that ‘fairness’ should...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDecoupling 'fairness' from class and power in the UK
Fairness is all the rage, it was Gordon Brown's mantra, is claimed by the Lib Dems and advocated by the UK's new...