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Transitions to the knowledge economy: path dependence and policy choice (2023)
Presentation / Conference

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.

Political visions (and where to find them) (2022)
Journal Article

Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation (2022)
Report

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

Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement (2022)
Digital Artefact

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.

What Sunak’s Autumn Statement could mean for skills and innovation (2022)
Digital Artefact

Dirigisme without Direction? Mapping the trajectory of the UK’s substitutive state (2022)
Presentation / Conference

The Regulator’s Trilemma (2022)
Presentation / Conference

Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
Journal Article

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

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.

Lessons from ’97: Keir Starmer’s narrative problem (2022)
Digital Artefact

High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity (2022)
Digital Artefact

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

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

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

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.

Making work: The knowledge economy, automation, and industrial strategy (2021)
Book Chapter

Strategy and the splinternet: the political economy of the internet in an age of cyberbalkanisation (2020)
Presentation / Conference

One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history? (2020)
Digital Artefact

Over the last century, a number of countries have tried to introduce one-off wealth taxes or capital levies in response to major crises, with varying degrees of success. These examples offer valuable lessons for policy-makers exploring such an option... Read More about One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history?.

One-off wealth taxes: theory and evidence (2020)
Report

One-off wealth taxes and recurring wealth taxes share many of the same properties, and face many of the same challenges. However, there are also important differences in how they operate, when viewed from the perspective of economic theory, tax admin... Read More about One-off wealth taxes: theory and evidence.

How a one-off tax on wealth could cover the economic cost of the coronavirus crisis (2020)
Digital Artefact