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Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts
Friday, 26 September 2025

How important are intangibles in accounting for productivity growth?

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1. I was asked today: if intangible capital deepening slows, is that a big effect on productivity growth?  This is part of a broader questio...
Tuesday, 22 April 2025

What is a log point? 100*ln(new/old).

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 Nerdy. Often when doing growth in Economics, we use change in natural logs.   For a change to y from x, the log point change = 100*ln(y/x)....
Thursday, 19 September 2024

Will building more houses boost growth?

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An excellent meeting at the Resolution Foundation this morning discussed this point, following their new report, " The growth mindset: ...
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Long run economic growth in the UK

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 A fascinating new paper by Stephen Broadberry, The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence: Recent Findings from Historical National...
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Our new book is "Restarting the Future: how to fix the intangible economy" with Stian Westlake, Princeton University Press, https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211589/restarting-the-future. I am Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, England. My research is on growth, innovation and the knowledge economy. Since September 2018 I have been an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. Views on this blog are my own. My website is http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haskel
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