My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at amazon.co.uk/Economics-Crea… and all good bookshops near you! and all good bookshops near you!

My new piece on future of EU and UK cepr.org/publications/f… @cepr_org @POID_LSE

🎃 A Halloween treat! 🌟Our new episode with Eric Zwick (Chicago Booth) is out now! We dive into 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨, his new book with @omzidar, entrepreneurship, inequality, and more. Enjoy!
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Writing for CEPR's #Europe2050 initiative from a UK perspective, @johnvanreenen uses defence as his primary example to set out a Europe of concentric and overlapping circles that offers an alternative to the US and China, and in which non EU countries could become associate oTtoppvhk

My #Budget2026 commentary from yesterday blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… @LSEpoliticsblog

@johnvanreenen's Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation lecture helps us think about how policy designs influence things we care about in science: research conducted, people trained, intellectual property protected (or shared with the public).

The "lightbulb" table from ilwilliams_ & @I_Am_NickBloom provides a quick way to think about the quality of evidence for different innovation policies and their net benefit.

Find John's lecture here (with intro text from @matthewesche): macroscience.org/p/john-van-ree…

IMF WEO has a lot of positive things to say on UK relative economic and fiscal position imf.org/en/publication… Much more so than the last one! torstenbell.substack.com/p/growth-up-de… @TorstenBell

Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper: Measuring the prevalence and direction of Innovation: A pilot approach using LLMs
By @Prashant_Garg_, @pj_lambert, Ralf Martin and Denis Medvedev
poid.lse.ac.uk/_new/publicati…

Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper: A theory of endogenous degrowth and environmental sustainability
By @Ph_Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, @SchwartzmanEcon and Fabrizio Zilibotti

poid.lse.ac.uk/_new/publicati…

🗓️ #LSEEnvironmentWeek: Join the discussion on how innovation can accelerate the transition to a cleaner, secure and sustainable energy future w/@asvalero @sinha_praveer @johnvanreenen Thu 24 Sept, 18:30, Old Theatre #LSEEvents
Register 👉: ow.ly/XTl050ZPEiu

Innovation is changing how we generate, store and use energy. Clean energy needs more than new technology. What will it take to scale innovation and deliver a sustainable energy system? Join Anna Valero, Praveer Sinha (@TataPower) and @johnvanreenen
lse.ac.uk/events/innovat…

Example of a ‘Lost Marie Curie’? She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased From History. Why? nytimes.com/2026/08/29/bus… mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-…

An important paper by Agnes Norris Keiller, Aureo de Palma @PaulaAureo, and John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen. The use of firm beliefs about future inputs and outputs represents a new route to identification under weaker assumptions than have been required in previous research. The excellent associated thread gives details.

Labour share continues to fall in US ft.com/content/6f3ada… Goes alongside rise of superstar firms academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab… This is not happening everywhere, though: in UK productivity & wages continue to move together johnvanreenen.com/_files/ugd/b45…

Good @resfoundation report on UK productivity rebound (spoiler: it's not due to tax rises ) theguardian.com/business/2026/… Consistent with our @POID_LSE analysis - update here
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

Interesting new initative led by Mario Draghi, @patrickc (CEO of @stripe) and @lugaricano.

With an excellent group of names including Nobel Price @Ph_Aghion, Andreu Mas-Colell @_alice_evans, @alexandraroulet, @bastinominacher, @bweder, @BCoeure, @BrunoLeMaire, @johnvanreenen, @matthewclifford, etc

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The Equilibrium Impact of Credit Frictions: Evidence from Default Risk Using Firm-Level Data l Tim Besley, @pj_lambert , Isabelle Michalski-Roland & @johnvanreenen write for @nberpubs
nber.org/papers/w35552

This is strong planning reform from Labour government to give default ‘yes’ to housing around commuter rail stations. Builds on our planning reforms in Dec 2024 that OBR scored to raise GDP by >£100bn.

economist.com/britain/2026/0…

By popular demand, here's the updated UK productivity numbers incorporating @ONS data through 2026Q2 released this week. Very similar to our last report cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/… @asvalero @Sam1Fleming ft.com/content/6c358c…

How can the UK get back to stronger #productivity growth?

In his #RES2026 keynote, Prof. @johnvanreenen OBE explored how innovation policy can support growth, from industrial strategy and defence R&D to inequality and AI.

Read more: bit.ly/4xNVeZH

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People finally accepting that UK showing productivity improvement - me in @FT
ft.com/content/6c358c…
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