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  1. I discussed my recent article, ‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution’, on the New Statesman podcast. Listen on Acastor iTunes. February 7, 20240. ‘Eye-watering taxes are a problem for the Tories – and an even bigger one for Labour’.

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      About – William Davies. I live in London and I am a...

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      Books. I am author of The Happiness Industry: How the...

  2. William Davies (born 1976) is an English writer, political and sociological theorist. His work focuses on the issues of consumerism, happiness, and the history and function of expertise on society.

  3. Professor Will Davies. My research looks at how expert knowledge is deployed politically in neoliberal societies. Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups. Political Economy Research Centre. Position. Co-Head of the Department. Department. Politics and International Relations. Email. w.davies (@gold.ac.uk) Links. Twitter. @davies_will. Website.

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  4. William Davies is a London-based academic who studies the history of ideas and their impact on politics and society. He writes for various publications and is the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

  5. Books. I am author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government & Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing (Verso, 2015) and The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (Sage, 2014), Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, (Jonathan Cape, 2018) and editor of Economic Science Fictions (Goldsmiths Press, 2018).

  6. In this bold and compelling exploration of our new political reality, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing on history, philosophy, psychology and economics,...

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  8. William Davies is a sociologist and political economist who teaches at Goldsmiths and writes for the LRB. He has published essays on topics such as neoliberalism, the happiness industry and the collapse of liberal Britain.