At present, I am not doing any writing for public audiences, apart from books. You can find some of my past writings below. At The Economist I mostly wrote Free Exchange columns for the Finance and Economics section. None of them have bylines, but most of the ones published from 2015 to 2021 are mine, and so are a bunch of others.
* At The Economist I also wrote other sorts of pieces, like briefings:
On places left behind by globalization (October 21, 2017)
On universal basic incomes (June 4, 2016)
On the oppressive power of land in the economy (April 4, 2015)
On the the troubling growth prospects for emerging markets (September 13, 2014)
On the future of work (January 18, 2014)
On government budgets during the financial crisis (September 18, 2013)
On monetary policy during and after the crisis (September 21, 2013)
On the end of the emerging-market boom (July 27, 2013)
On whether we have lost our ability to innovate (January 12, 2013)
* I wrote two special reports for The Economist:
The next recession (October 13, 2018)
The third great wave (October 3, 2014)
* And this fun Christmas feature:
The baseball-card bubble (December 17, 2014)
* I have written a number of features for 1843, a sister publication of The Economist.
Crafting a life (February/March 2018)
Escape to another world (April/May 2017)
High-pressure parenting (February/March 2017)
Why do we work so hard? (April/May 2016)
* Then there are a large number of other things I have written for various publications, some of which I have collected below.
Then they came for the lawyers (Foreign Policy, July 2018)
A digital capitalism Marx might enjoy (MIT Technology Review, June 2018)
Facebook gathered us all together — and then set a four-alarm dumpster fire (Washington Post, March 2018)
How robots will break politics (POLITICO Magazine, January 2018)
What’s stifling pay raises is also curbing economic growth (New York Times, December 2017)
Making monetary policy great again (Democracy, July 2017)
The digital age needs a new social revolution (Journal of the RSA, April 2017)
Themes of 2016: technology puts millions of jobs in jeopardy (Observer, December 2016)
How land use restrictions block growth (Cato Forum, November 2014)
How Washington went topless (Washington Post, September 2013)
The new geography of jobs (Journal of Economic Geography, June 2013)
More inflation is the cure for the Fed’s impotence (Bloomberg, February 2013)
Older pieces can be found here.
* Finally I have contributed a few book chapters..
“The Great Innovation Debate”, Megatech: Technology in 2050 (Economist Books, ed. Daniel Franklin, 2017)
“The Revolution Will Be Uncomfortable”, Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy (Nesta Books, ed. Stian Westlake, 2014)
Ryan Avent 