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Richard V. Reeves
Born (1969-07-04) July 4, 1969 (age 55)
Peterborough, UK
OccupationHistorian, writer, philosopher, politician, journalist, political theorist
NationalityBritish & American
Alma materWadham College, Oxford (B.A., 1990);
University of Warwick (PhD, philosophy, 2012)
SubjectHistory, philosophy, liberal politics

Richard V. Reeves (born 4 July 1969)[1] is a British writer and scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Career

Reeves is Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, working principally on issues related to intergenerational mobility, inequality and social change. In 2014, he published a Brookings Essay, Saving Horatio Alger, along with a video in which he used Lego bricks to illustrate levels of social mobility in the U.S. In May 2014, he appeared in a Daily Show segment satirizing how the complaints about the plight of the poorer members of the top 1% distracts from solutions to social mobility.

Until 2012 Reeves was Director of Strategy to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.[2] Previously he had been director of the London-based think tank Demos. Reeves has held positions including Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, a British non-profit organisation, Society Editor of The Observer, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, and policy adviser to Frank Field when he was Minister for Welfare Reform.

Reeves has published three books, including John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007),[3] a biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, and Happy Mondays (2002) about job satisfaction.[4] He co-authored The 80 Minute MBA (2009) with John Knell, a condensed business management book.[5]

Reeves appears regularly on radio and television as a political commentator, and writes for a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Observer. He is also a regular contributor to the online 'Think Tank' section of The Wall Street Journal. In 2005, he co-presented the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy.[6] He writes regularly in British newspapers and magazines[7] on politics, well-being,[8] work and character.[9] In 2008 he argued in The Guardian that social-liberals [a majority of Lib Dem members] should not be involved with the Liberal Democrats, but the Labour Party.[10]

In summer 2010 Reeves left Demos, joining the office of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, as a Special Advisor.[11] In 2012 Reeves urged the Liberal Democrats to choose to become a radical centrist political party, "a hard-driving radical liberal party of the political centre", continuing his campaign for centre left Liberal Democrats to leave, "Any attempt to position the Liberal Democrats as a party of the centre left after five years of austerity government in partnership with the Conservatives will be laughed out of court by the voters – and rightly so. Anybody who wants a centre-left party will find a perfectly acceptable one in Labour. The Liberal Democrats need centrist voters, "soft Tories", ex-Blairites, greens".[12]: 26 

In June 2017, Reeves published a widely-circulated[13] New York Times oped, "Stop Pretending You're Not Rich".[14] Reeves's 2017 book is Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It (ISBN 978-0815729129).

Personal life

Reeves was born in Peterborough, UK.[14]

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Reeves, Richard". LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  2. ^ Spin doctor Andy Coulson earns more than Nick Clegg. The Guardian (10 June 2010). Retrieved on 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ Richard Reeves (2008). John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand. Atlantic. ISBN 978-1-84354-644-3.
  4. ^ Richard Reeves (2002). Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work. Perseus Pub. ISBN 978-0-7382-0659-2.
  5. ^ "The 80 Minute MBA". the-80-minute-mba. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  6. ^ Health | Path to true happiness 'revealed'. BBC News (15 November 2005). Retrieved on 2017-01-06.
  7. ^ Including the New Statesman[1], Prospect[2], The Guardian[3], The Observer, The Sunday Times and Management Today.
  8. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/17/budget2002.economy1
  9. ^ http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10283
  10. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/19/libdemconference.liberaldemocrats
  11. ^ http://www.demos.co.uk/press_releases/demos-appoints-julia-margo-as-acting-director
  12. ^ Reeves, Richard (19 September 2012). "The Case for a Truly Liberal Party". The New Statesman. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  13. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/2017-favorite-columns.html
  14. ^ a b Reeves, Richard V. (10 June 2017). "Stop Pretending You're Not Rich". The New York Times.
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