Daniel Ben-Ami

Daniel has worked as a journalist for over 20 years. He is a regular contributor to spiked and his work has appeared in publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Novo (Germany), Prospect, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times.

He has appeared on numerous radio stations including Australia’s ABC Radio National (Counterpoint programme), Air America Radio (Al Franken Show), BBC Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine Show), BBC Radio 4 (the Today programme and the Moral Maze), BBC Radio 5 Live and Hungarian public radio. His television appearances include Al Jazeera English language television, BBC News 24, BBC World, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN and Sky News.

Ferraris For All, his book defending economic progress, will be published in July 2010. His book on global finance, Cowardly Capitalism (Wiley, 2001), was recommended by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School. Daniel's day job is to edit Fund Strategy, a specialist weekly magazine on investment funds and financial markets, where he also writes a blog on economics.

Daniel's book on global finance, Cowardly Capitalism (Wiley, 2001), argues that the financial markets are characterised by risk aversion rather than the aggressive risk taking generally assumed. Although it was published almost a decade ago it provides a foundation for developing a critique of the way in which the more recent financial crisis is generally understood. It was widely reviewed including by the Financial Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (review in German) and the Independent. The book can still be bought from online retailers and is available in a Kindle edition from Amazon.com.

Daniel also contributed a chapter on "Is Japan different?" to Cultural Differences, Media Memories (Cassell, 1997). In it I argue that it is not useful to understand Japan in terms of supposed cultural differences with the West. The essay was reprinted in Modern Japanese Culture and Society (Routledge 2007), a collection edited by DP Martinez.

One of Daniels spiked essays on happiness was reprinted in Prosperity Index, an Indian collection edited by Asha B Joshi. An extract from another spiked essay on "fat Americans" was quoted as an example of good persuasive writing in the fifth edition of Everything's An Argument (Bedford / St Martin's 2010), a popular textbook on composition for American college students.

Daniels blog posts are also fed through to Twitter.

Please also note that some common biographical claims made about Daniel Ben-Ami in recent years are incorrect:

* He has never worked as a Financial Times (FT) correspondent. To my knowledge this mistaken notion first appeared on the entry for Cowardly Capitalism, my book on global finance, on Amazon.co.uk. He did once work for the FT group, as the editor of a specialist newspaper called Investment Adviser, but not as a correspondent for the FT. He has, however, contributed freelance articles to the FT.

* He is not now nor ever has been a "professional investment adviser" as also claimed on the Amazon.co.uk site (although he thinks this originated with Wiley, the publisher of Cowardly Capitalism). He did, as mentioned above, once edit a newspaper called Investment Adviser.

* He is not an economist although he has written extensively about economics. He calls himself an economics writer rather than an economist.

* He has never written for the Morning Star – a newspaper once linked to Britain's official Communist party. In fact he worked as a London-based senior editor for Morningstar; an American company which provides information on investment funds and stocks.

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