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About Michael Jacobs (economist)
- Michael Jacobs (born 3 December 1960) is currently the director of the Commission on Economic Justice at the Institute for Public Policy Research and a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London.
- He was previously a special adviser to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Co-Editor of The Political Quarterly and the head of the Fabian Society.
- He has three children, each of whom attend, have attended or will attend Oxford or Cambridge.
- Jacobs' published work has ranged across environmental and climate change economics, social democratic and green political thought, and a variety of issues in public policy, particularly economic policy.
- His books include The Green Economy (1991), The Politics of the Real World (1996) Paying for Progress (2000) and Rethinking Capitalism (co-edited with Mariana Mazzucato, 2016).
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