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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.
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.
March 16, 20241. ‘Left Behind: the failed revolutions of the 2010s’. 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’. Comment ...
William Davies Company was a pork processing and packing company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At one time, it was the largest pork packer in the British Empire, and it operated Canada's first major chain of food stores.
About – William Davies. I live in London and I am a Professor in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I am also Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. For more on my academic work, see my page at Academia.edu or Google Scholar.
The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being is a 2015 book written by William Davies, in which the author proposes that the contemporary notions of happiness and well-being are being warped by the forces of numerous governmental and business institutions to transform happiness, as a concept, into something that ...
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,...
Feb 26, 2019 · In this bold and far- reaching book, political economist William Davies argues that our increasing reliance on feeling over fact has transformed democracies. The spread of media technology and...
William Davies, a sociologist and political economist, teaches at Goldsmiths and has written extensively on subjects such as neoliberalism and the ‘happiness industry’. This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain includes several of his essays for the LRB.
Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer ― a wonderful and eminently readable combination. Nervous States covers 400 years of intellectual history, technological innovation and economic development, seamlessly weaving in such disparate intellects as Carl von Clausewitz, Friedrich von Hayek and Hannah ...
