Dan Atkinson (born 1961 in
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
) 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. Before then, he was economics editor of ''
The Mail on Sunday'' since 2000 before which he was for ten years a financial correspondent with ''
The Guardian''. In that role, he specialised in issues of regulation and fraud.
Between 1985 and 1990, he was deputy City Editor of the
Press Association
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, which he joined after an apprenticeship and a stint as business correspondent at the ''
Reading Evening Post''.
He lives in
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
.
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 Dan Atkinson (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).
*''Financial Mail on Sunday Complete Guide to the City'' by Dan Atkinson (
Random House Business Books, 2002).
*''The Age of Insecurity'' by Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson (Verso Books, 1998).
*''The Wrecker's Lamp: Do Currency Markets Leave Us on the Rocks?'' by
Ruth Kelly and Dan Atkinson (
Institute for Public Policy Research, 1994).
References
External links
The blog for Dan Atkinson's most recent bookJournalisted – Articles by Dan Atkinson
1961 births
Living people
people from Brighton
British business and financial journalists
British business writers
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