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Richard V.
Reeves

Scholar, author

Richard writes about: Economics, Society

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-directs the Center on Children and Families. His Brookings research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.

Reeves writes for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author most recently of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (2022). His previous books include Dream Hoarders (2017), and John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007), an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.

Dream Hoarders was named a Book of the Year by The Economist, a Political Book of the Year by The Observer, and was shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. In September 2017, Politico magazine named Reeves one of the top 50 thinkers in the US for his work on class and inequality.

A Brit-American, Reeves was director of strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2012. Other previous roles include director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank; social affairs editor of The Observer; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, and research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Reeves is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year and has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.

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