Jonathan Haskel's Blog

An excellent meeting at the Resolution Foundation this morning discussed this point, following their new report, " The growth mindset: ...

Imperial college student webinar, Current economic prospects, 12 May 2020 Some of our Imperial College students organised a webinar l...

We discussed the role of the state in the last section of class on Wednesday. Here is a typically insightful essay by Tim Taylor on what th...

Universities UK alert me to a report, The impact of universities on the UK economy , PDF here , from April 2014. What does it say?  Her...

We have a new paper on this: Goodridge, P., Haskel, J., Hughes, A., and Wallis, G., (2015). The contribution of public and private R&D t...

Here's a new report The economic impact of Russell Group universities http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/uploads/Economic-impact-of-the-R...

1. Economics: the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world? Via Pereia we have this question: Economics: the biggest fraud ever perpet...

A hostile r eport on evidence-based polic y by Jamie Whyte from IEA gives a nice example of adjustment along many margins: Seeking to impr...

I have had the pleasure of working with McKinsey who have done  a report that was presented at the G8 innovation summit 14th June 2013 last ...

To those who think that infrastructure spending will solve our problems, today's FT suggests, to me at least, how hard the politics arou...

Many have argued that governments can improve growth by procuring “well”, that is to say, in such a fashion that will promote innovation...

  A lot of interesting tweets last night from the Royal Society Innovation Debate . (Twitter mark: #innovationdebate ). I couldn't go...