{"title":"Diane Coyle","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiane Coyle's works delve into the intricate relationships between economics, society, and public policy. Her writing combines sharp analysis with accessible explanations, making complex economic ideas engaging and relevant to contemporary challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful explorations of topics such as market dynamics, the role of government, and new measures of economic progress, all grounded in a clear-eyed understanding of today's global economy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cogs-and-monsters-by-diane-coyle-9780691210599","title":"Cogs and Monsters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In \u003ci\u003eCogs and Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world's crises, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate emergency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are 'cogs'—self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterised by 'monsters'—untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyses. 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In \u003cem\u003eThe Measure of Progress\u003c\/em\u003e, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy? Coyle makes the case for a new framework, one that takes into consideration current economic realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCoyle explains why economic statistics matter. They are essential for guiding better economic policies; they involve questions of freedom, justice, life, and death. Governments use statistics that affect people's lives in ways large and small. The metrics for economic growth were developed when a lack of physical rather than natural capital was the binding constraint on growth, intangible value was less important, and the pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply. Today's challenges are different. Growth in living standards in rich economies has slowed, despite remarkable innovation, particularly in digital technologies. As a result, politics is contentious and democracy strained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCoyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail. 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