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Turning less into more: Measuring real GDP growth in the green transition (2024)
Journal Article
O'Donovan, N. (2024). Turning less into more: Measuring real GDP growth in the green transition. Ecological Economics, 224, Article 108293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108293

Proponents of degrowth query the compatibility of ecological sustainability with economic growth and a capitalist system predicated on the ongoing expansion of economic output. This article deploys insights from constructivist political economy and r... Read More about Turning less into more: Measuring real GDP growth in the green transition.

Autumn statement: as it happened (2023)
Digital Artefact
McCallion, P., Taylor, A., Shipman, A., Martin, A., Hughes, C., Midgley, G., …Dobbins, T. (2023). Autumn statement: as it happened. [Blog style article and interview]

Transitions to the knowledge economy: path dependence and policy choice (2023)
Presentation / Conference
O'Donovan, N. (2023, September). Transitions to the knowledge economy: path dependence and policy choice. Presented at European Consortium of Political Research annual conference, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

Since at least the early 1990s onwards, developed democracies have self-consciously sought to orient themselves towards the growth of the “knowledge economy”. The widespread adoption of ever-more sophisticated ICTs promised gains in productivity and... Read More about Transitions to the knowledge economy: path dependence and policy choice.

Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation (2022)
Report
Berry, C., & O’Donovan, N. (2022). Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation. TBC

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how innovation happens – for example, recognising the role of the state in fuelling private sector innovation, and of user demand in enabling the generation and dissemination of innovation – the assumpt... Read More about Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation.

2022 Autumn Statement discussion (2022)
Digital Artefact
O'Donovan, N. (2022). 2022 Autumn Statement discussion. [Interview discussing the 2022 Autumn Statement]

Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement (2022)
Digital Artefact
O'Donovan, N. (2022). Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement. [Blog style article]

The 2022 Autumn Statement is Rishi Sunak’s first real opportunity to showcase his plans as Prime Minister. In recent weeks, UK media outlets have carried rumours of fiscal “black holes”, savage spending cuts and dramatic tax rises. Much of this ma... Read More about Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement.

The Regulator’s Trilemma (2022)
Presentation / Conference
O'Donovan, N. (2022, September). The Regulator’s Trilemma. Paper presented at Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum, Competition and Markets Authority/Ofcom, Manchester, England, UK

Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Berry, C., Bailey, D., Beel, D., & O’Donovan, N. (2023). Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 16(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac024

This paper explores the local impact of various forms of fiscal and monetary support for UK-based companies in the context of disruption caused by COVID-19 and associated public health restrictions, including support for household incomes (and theref... Read More about Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Pursuing the Knowledge Economy (2022)
Book
O'Donovan, N. (2022). Pursuing the Knowledge Economy. Agenda Publishing

In the 1990s, the "knowledge economy" was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization – an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing lev... Read More about Pursuing the Knowledge Economy.

High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity (2022)
Digital Artefact
O'Donovan, N. (2022). High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity. [Blog style article]

The government aims to shift the UK towards a high-skill, high-wage growth model, based on investment in education. Nick O’Donovan explores how this ambition was shared by New Labour politicians in the 1990s, and what lessons we can learn from the sh... Read More about High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity.

Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy (2021)
Journal Article
O’Donovan, N. (2023). Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 25(1), 178-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481211058018

Theories of ‘growth models’ explain capitalist diversity by reference to shifting drivers of aggregate demand in different national economies. This article expands the growth models framework beyond its conventional focus on debt-driven and export-dr... Read More about Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy.

One‐off wealth taxes: theory and evidence (2021)
Journal Article
O'Donovan, N. (2021). One‐off wealth taxes: theory and evidence. Fiscal Studies, 42(3-4), 565-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12277

In periods where the national public debt has grown rapidly beyond ‘normal’ levels, the idea of drawing on the stock of national private wealth in order to pay down that debt, whether in whole or in part, has gained currency. ‘Capital levies’ or ‘one... Read More about One‐off wealth taxes: theory and evidence.

Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect (2021)
Book Chapter
O’Donovan, N. (2021). Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect. In Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (74-92). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891325.006

Over recent years, economists, lawyers and regulators have become increasingly interested in the role played by ‘network effects’ in the digital economy: namely, the phenomenon whereby a platform becomes increasingly valuable to its users, the more u... Read More about Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect.