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Showing posts with label measurement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label measurement. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Defence spending: getting a sense of the numbers

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 1. If we have to spend more on defence, what is the scale of those numbers? 2. The ever brilliant IFS have a " what does the governmen...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025

The Creative Industries

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 I often struggle to remember who is in and out of the official definition of the creative industries. Here is the table: And the source of ...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Does the EU or the US have an investment problem?

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 The recent Draghi report says it's an EU problem : here's their Figure 5 but notice it says "productive investment".  Wh...
Monday, 17 April 2023

GDP and health: stocks, flows, output and outcomes

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 Interesting discussion at Imperial today.   1. The health of a nation can be thought of as an outcome (e.g. premature death) and/or a stock...
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Price indices

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The House of Lords has a report on the problems with the RPI ( Report: Measuring Inflation (PDF) .  They have a neat box explaining some of ...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

Innovation measurement : a survey

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Bronwyn Hall has a very nice piece that I only just saw as part of an overall high-level EU pane l.  She comes out in favor of the growth a...
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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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