Will Davies
Professor in Political Economy, Goldsmiths, University of London
I’m a Professor in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. In my work, I explore the way in which economics influences our understanding of politics, society and ourselves.
EXPs by Will Davies
While statistics don’t have very much democratic legitimacy because the people who produce statistics are unelected experts, they also are one of the only ways that modern societies have to weigh the benefits and costs of different courses of action.
Believing that gross domestic product is the most important economic indicator in our society has always had this limitation that it excludes lots of things that most people believe are valuable and includes lots of things that many people believe are not valuable.
The big question for both the viability of liberal democracies and for the capacity to solve social environmental problems is the extent to which people continue to see politics, political parties, political leaders as having any sorts of solutions to the problems that afflict them in their everyday lives.