Daniel Ben-Ami

Daniel Ben-Ami is a British journalist, editor, author, lecturer, and researcher. In the past his work has focused on economics, finance, investment, economic development, and political issues. More recently he has focused on antisemitism including on his Radicalism of fools website on rethinking antisemitism. He has written for British and international publications and has held editorial positions in the financial and investment press.

Early life and education Ben-Ami studied politics and social science at the University of Sussex, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree. He subsequently completed a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1986.

Career Ben-Ami began his career as a journalist and later established himself as a writer and editor specializing in economics, finance, investment, and public affairs.

From 2001 to 2004, he served as Senior Editor at Morningstar in London. His responsibilities included writing and editing, providing information to the media, making broadcast appearances, and coordinating with international colleagues on pan-European projects.

In 2004, he became Editor of Fund Strategy, a magazine published by Centaur Media. He remained in that position until 2011, overseeing editorial operations, managing staff, commissioning contributors, and working with commercial departments. He also undertook corporate writing projects for investment-management and legal firms and lectured for organizations including Oxford University's Centre for Continuing Education, Accent International, and the University of East London.

Since 2021, he has worked as an independent researcher focusing on antisemitism. He is the founder of the Radicalism of Fools project, an initiative devoted to research and commentary on contemporary antisemitism, political culture, and related intellectual debates. , finance, investment, economic development, environmental debates, political culture, and antisemitism. Throughout his career he has written for both specialist financial publications and general-interest newspapers and magazines.

His work on economic and financial matters has appeared in publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Prospect, Spiked, Fund Strategy, and Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE).

His work on antisemitism has appeared in Compact, Fathom Journal, The Jewish Chronicle, The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Spiked, and Unherd.

He has also contributed commentary to public policy and intellectual debate forums and has participated in conferences and public discussions in the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, and North America.

These arguments were developed most fully in his 2010 book Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress. In the book, Ben-Ami argues that economic growth has historically been associated with improvements in living standards, health, longevity, and material welfare. He contends that concerns about prosperity, consumption, and development have increasingly displaced earlier confidence in economic progress. The book examines debates over environmental sustainability, inequality, consumer culture, happiness research, and international development.

Ben-Ami has also written on questions of Jewish identity, antisemitism, and contemporary political culture. Since 2021, his research has increasingly focused on antisemitism through the Radicalism of Fools project, which examines historical and contemporary manifestations of anti-Jewish prejudice, including its relationship to political ideologies and social movements. "Cancel Culture verstärkt den Antisemitismus" ["Cancel culture strengthens anti-Semitism"], in Sabine Beppler-Spahl (ed) Cancel Culture und Meinungsfreiheit, Novo Argumente, 2022.