About Nat

Nat Dyer is an author based in south-west England. Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray published by Bristol University Press is his first book.

Ricardo’s Dream has been featured in The Financial Times, The Guardian, and Salon as well as a range of podcasts and YouTube videos. Nat has held talks & events on the book for the general public and universities in Bath, Oxford, Warwick, and London. See what others are saying about the book here.

Previously, he worked for the award-winning NGO Global Witness as an anti-corruption investigator and campaign leader for the Democratic Republic of Congo team . His stories have been reported on by Channel 4 News, the BBC and the New York Times among others and have sparked government investigations and sanctions in the US, Canada and Congo. He has also worked for Rainforest Foundation UK and IIED and for Promoting Economic Pluralism (PEP). He’s lived and worked in France and West Africa and has a degree in history and a masters in international politics.

He has a deep interest in the history of ideas, especially in the interplay of ideas between physics, the natural world, the social sciences, and literature. He has written extensively about the founder of global political economy Susan Strange (1923-1998) and helped to organise a conference on her work in London in 2024 and also about the British philsopher Mary Midgley (1919-2018).

He’s a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRSLI). Away from books and screens, he loves cooking, getting out into nature, and playing with his kids.

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