Larry Elliott is an English journalist and author who focuses on economic issues. He is the economics editor at ''

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'', and has published seven books on related issues, six of them in partnership with

Dan Atkinson Dan Atkinson (born 1961 in Brighton) is a British journalist and author. Atkinson has been an independent writer and commentator on financial and economic affairs since 2017 after he had been financial editor of Sticky Content since 2013. Befo ...

Early life

Elliott was educated at St Albans School, an independent school for boys in

St Albans St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...

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, in southern

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, followed by

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

, where he read history.

Journalistic career

* '' The Evening Post-Echo'',

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, 1978 to 1983 *

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, 1983 to 1988 * ''

'', 1988 to date Elliott's areas of particular interest are globalisation, trade, Europe, development, and the interface between economics and the environment. He is on the editorial board of ''Catalyst'', on the board of the

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, a council member of the

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and a visiting fellow at the

University of Hertfordshire The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was ident ...

. Elliott's book ''Fantasy Island'' (2007) argued that the

British economy The economy of the United Kingdom is a highly developed social market and market-orientated economy. It is the sixth-largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), ninth-largest by purchasing power pa ...

was weaker than it appeared and that a recession could dramatically damage its base of services. He supported Britain leaving the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

and voted to leave the

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in the 1975 referendum. Elliott, an outspoken critic of the European Union, authored articles for ''

'' such as “Brexit is a rejection of Globalisation”. He stated that the British people's decision to leave the European Union in 2016 is testament to its failure to act on its promises to protect its member states from the worst effects of globalisation, which he considers would have included the funding of more affordable homes and the provision of more employment opportunities.

Works

*''Europe Didn't Work'' by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (Yale University Press, 2017). *''Europe Isn't Working'' by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (Yale University Press, 2016). *
Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014
' by Larry Elliott and

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). *''The Gods that Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets has Cost us Our Future'' by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (The Bodley Head, 2008) . *''Fantasy Island'' by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (Constable, 2007) . *''In or Out: Labour and the Euro'' by Larry Elliott,

Andrew Gamble Andrew Michael Gamble (born 15 August 1947) is a British scholar of politics. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens' College from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of the Department of Politics at the Univ ...

, Janet Bush (Fabian Society, 2002) . *''The Age of Insecurity'' by Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson (Verso Books, 1998) .

References

External links

Larry Elliott's ''Guardian'' profileJournalisted – Articles by Larry Elliott
Academics of the University of Hertfordshire Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge British business writers British male journalists The Guardian journalists Living people People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-journalist-stub