Jonathan Haskel's Blog

 The BLS has just published an update on US labour and TFP growth .  Heres a graph of  private non-farm business. Red is TFP growth, dark bl...

 1. There are lots of conflicting effects of tariffs on UK inflation and activity.  They are set out by Megan Greene in a very interesting r...

 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)....

 The brilliant Sam Dumitriu ,  points us to the Bristol and Portishead  rail link.  from a brilliant piece by Ben Hopkinson .  The project w...

 Crafts and Harley have a neat guide to some index number problems. 1. they imagine an economy with  Year o: 10 bricks at 1 (io% of current...

 A brilliant podcast with Martin Wolf and Richard Baldwin .  " Martin Wolf talks to Richard Baldwin: What’s the future of global trade...

 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...

 1. This has always struck me as a potentially important critique of standard economic assumptions.  The ever brilliant Chris Dillow notes t...

 Is very downbeat.  My notes are here .

 Very pleased to see this article.  Why has industry concentration risen? Because of intangibles.... Intangibles and Industry Concentratio...