Christopher Snowdon

Not to be confused with Christopher Snowden.

Christopher Snowdon
Born	1976 North Yorkshire
Alma mater	Lancaster University, University of Buckingham
Occupation(s)	Author, journalist

Christopher John Snowdon is a British author and freelance journalist. He is particularly known as a vocal opponent of government intervention in areas such as tobacco, alcohol, and obesity.

Early life

Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998. He was later awarded a Ph.D in economics from the University of Buckingham.

Career

He has written for the Spiked website, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, as well as the Conservative Home website. Snowdon is "Head of Lifestyle Economics" at the Institute of Economic Affairs,

Works

• Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (Self-published, 2009) ISBN 978-0956226501
• The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything (Democracy Institute/Little Dice, 2010) ISBN 978-0956226518
• The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 (Little Dice, 2011) ISBN 978-0956226532
• Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism: Debunking Myths about the Free Market (IEA, 2015) ISBN 978-0-255-36679-3
• Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism (IEA, 2017) ISBN 978-0-255-36750-9
• Polemics (Little Dice, 2020)

(Little Dice appears to be a proxy for self-publishing by Snowden.)

See also

• The Spirit Level (book)