Adrian Wooldridge
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Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.[1]
Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College, also at Oxford University, where he received a DPhil in 1985. From 1984 to 1985, he was also a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]
Wooldridge worked at The Economist weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years.[3] He was The Economist's Washington bureau chief and the "Lexington" columnist, and the "Schumpeter" columnist (business, finance and management) until the end of 2016.[4] As of June 2021, he was The Economist's political editor and "Bagehot" columnist,[5] which was described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot".[6]
In September 2021, Wooldridge joined Bloomberg Opinion as the global business columnist.[3][1]
Bibliography
- Wooldridge, Adrian (1994). Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England c. 1860–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521395151.
- — (18 April 2015). "Family companies (online:'To those that have')". Special Report. The Economist. Vol. 415, no. 8934.
- — (18 April 2015). "A very British business : some lessons from the success of Britain's elite private schools". Schumpeter. The Economist. Vol. 415, no. 8934. p. 56.
- Greenspan, Alan; Wooldridge, Adrian (2018). Capitalism in America: A History. New York: Penguin Press.
- — (2021). The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World. Penguin. ISBN 9780241391501. The Times Book of the Year.
- — (2026). Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism. Allen Lane. ISBN 9780241758700.
Co-written (with John Micklethwait):
- The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996)
- A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization (2000)
- The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (2003)
- The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004)
- God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (2009)
- The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State (2014)
- The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It (2020)
