Jonathan Haskel's Blog

Here's a fantastic demonstration of price discrimination in the light vehicles industry from  Ana Aizcorbe, Benjamin Bridgman, and Jerem...

1. Economists assume that firms will want to profit maximise or loss minimise.  What about otehr motivations like culture?  Here's why E...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-do-we-care-about-future-generations/ The long term discount rate is 2.5%.  Vital for climate change htt...

We have a new report [pdf], summary page ,  out on 30th April, 2014, "The Economic Significance of the UK Science Base".  It'...

1. Solow's review of Piketty, a brilliant summary . But the case against: 2. Very good outline of the key Piketty issues: net v ...

Is very hard. Here's the Competition Commission, r eviewing a meger in 2001 between Kodak and ColourCare, two photo developing and prin...

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

An incredibly helpful piece from Jonathan Dupont gives the answer and shows how salience is so key in understanding economic policy: bori...

The ONS has helpfully an international productivity comparison page,  here.   What does it show? First, teh UK performance in the 2000...