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David Courtney Boyle, born 1958, is a British author and journalist who writes mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business, and culture. He lives in Steyning in West Sussex. He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on, which reported in 2013. He is now co-director of the mutual thinktank New Weather. ==Writing== His book ''Authenticity'' put the phenomenon on the business and political agenda. His previous books ''The Tyranny of Numbers'' and ''The Sum of Our Discontent'' predicted and fermented the backlash against target culture. ''Funny Money'' helped launched the time banks movement in the UK. More recently, his writing has suggested why organisations and public services can be ineffective. He worked with the New Economics Foundation and NESTA on a series of publications about coproduction. His solutions are also published in ''The Human Element''. This (argues ) that organisations have abandoned human skills in favour of numerical targets or IT systems, which frustrate the business of building relationships and making things happen. His history books usually have a business or economic dimension, including ''Blondel's Song'' (UK) and ''The Troubadour's Song'' (USA) about the imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart. His 2008 book ''Toward the Setting Sun'' tells the intertwined story of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci and their race for America in the 1490s. His 2010 book, ''Eminent Corporations'' with (Andrew Simms) has introduced a new genre, the mini-corporate biography, launching the idea of corporate history as tragedy. He has been the editor of several non-peer-reviewed journals including ''New Economics'' and ''Town & Country Planning''. He is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. He was editor of the weekly ''Liberal Democrat News'' from 1992–1998. He edited the Foundation's publications ''New Economics'', ''News from the New Economy'', and then ''Radical Economics'' from 1987–2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Boyle (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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