Dan Atkinson (born 1961 in

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

) 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 ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

''. In that role, he specialised in issues of regulation and fraud. Between 1985 and 1990, he was deputy City Editor of the Press Association, which he joined after an apprenticeship and a stint as business correspondent at the '' Reading Evening Post''. He lives in

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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 Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

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 Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is the chair of Water UK, the trade association representing all of the water and wastewater companies of the United Kingdom. She was previously a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who serve ...

and Dan Atkinson (

Institute for Public Policy Research The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a Progressivism, progressive think tank based in London. It was founded in 1988 by Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick, Lord Hollick and John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, Lord Eatwell, and is an independen ...

, 1994).

References

External links

The blog for Dan Atkinson's most recent bookJournalisted – Articles by Dan Atkinson
1961 births Living people Writers from Brighton British business and financial journalists British business writers {{UK-journalist-stub