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Coming back soon
29 Sep 2021I have stopped updating this site for a while now but I hope to be back with an updated version before too long. What this space. In the meantime you can follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/danielbenami
Debate in Durham
5 Feb 2019I will be debating the efficacy of trade versus aid in development at the Durham Union Society this coming Friday.
- Tags: development, speeches, trade
Crashed: full text of review
19 Sep 2018This is the full text of my review essay published on spiked on 13 September. The bankruptcy a decade ago of Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank, is widely seen as turning point in early 21st-century history. Many view it as a trigger for the global financial crisis, which in turn precipitated the worst […]
Review on financial crisis
18 Sep 2018Spiked has published my review of Adam Tooze’s Crashed, already widely hailed as the definitive work on the global financial crisis. I will upload the full text at a later date.
Elites vs social media
18 Sep 2018This is the full text of my article for the August 2018 edition of the Spiked review. Attitudes towards the internet have shifted incredibly over the past few years. Where many used to praise the supposedly liberatory power of digital technology, now they talk gloomily about its allegedly malign influence. The main focus is on […]
- Tags: book, media appearances, review, spiked, technology
Spiked Entebbe review
10 Jun 2018My review of the recent Entebbe film was published on spiked on 21 May. In 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked Air France Flight 139 and flew it to Entebbe, Uganda. This event touches on some of the thorniest of all political questions, including the Holocaust, anti-semitism, the state of Israel, the plight of the […]
- Tags: film, Middle East, review
Review of Entebbe film
21 May 2018Spiked has published my review of the film Entebbe. I will upload the full text soon.
- Tags: film, Germany, media appearances, Middle East, review
Putonomics review in FT
6 May 2018My latest book review in the Financial Times was published on Friday 4 May Understanding the lives of the wealthy in contemporary Russia is like opening up a traditional matryoshka wooden doll: the distinctive external form clearly shapes the contents. Russia is a world away from the textbook model of a free market in which […]
- Tags: book, inequality, review
Silicon Valley debate podcast
1 Apr 2018On 26 March the Academy of Ideas (formerly the Institute of Ideas) distributed a podcast version of last year’s Battle of Ideas debate on “Silicon Valley from Heroes to Zeroes” in which I was panellist. The session explored the backlash against Silicon Valley in the policy and public debates. A lot has happened in this […]
- Tags: inequality, speeches, technology
The Inheritance of Wealth
10 Mar 2018Yesterday the Financial Times published my latest book review. There is one battle that even the wealthiest person is bound to lose. Even the most advanced medical technology can only postpone, rather than overcome, the inevitability of death. Some argue that, before long, regenerative medicine will transcend this reality but, for the time being at […]
- Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review
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