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The urgency of addressing climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation continues to rise, highlighting the need for research in this area.Read more....
EEE, IGC and POID convened the third Environment Camp at the LSE on 14-15 May 2025 to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity present new research on environmental issues.Read more....
This biweekly podcast aims to generate easily accessible and engaging academic discussions on cutting edge research on innovation and diffusion. Read more....
Philippe Aghion, a French economist, professor at the Collège de France and 2025 Nobel Prize winner, argues that innovation is the driving force behind the development of countries. Watch the interview at E... Read more...
10 January 2026
Research by economists Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager shows that a 1.0 percent increase in U.S. imports from China leads to a 1.9 percent drop in American consumer prices. Read more at CGTN. ... Read more...
13 December 2025
On December 10, the Nobel Foundation will host its prize-giving ceremony in Stockholm. The three recipients of the 2025 prize in economics have each tackled a question first set down by Adam Smith 249 years ago: what are... Read more...
5 December 2025
At the core of Philippe Aghion's work and his theory of growth through "creative destruction" is a single key concept: innovation. Watch the documentary at ARTE.tv. ... Read more...
“And for companies, quits are hugely expensive,” said Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University. The sweet spot for companies, he said, is hybrid work. “That seems to be ab... Read more...
2 December 2025
John Van Reenen, growth adviser to chancellor Rachel Reeves, is among economists whose research found use of the clauses to be more widespread in the UK than the US or Europe, with about one worker in four subject to the... Read more...
28 November 2025
“Winning the Nobel Prize is very good,” says Philippe Aghion, as the recently crowned economics laureate eyes up the dim sum options at a quiet pan-Asian restaurant on Paris’s left bank. “But the ... Read more...
21 November 2025
The current Nobel Prize in Economics has been given to three economists — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt — who have studied the role of technological change and creative destruction in economic... Read more...
11 November 2025
French Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion reflects on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth. Click to open. ... Read more...
13 October 2025
These too seem open to disruption. But in the interim AI may be the middle manager's friend. Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School notes that effective middle managers can boost the uptake of corporate t... Read more...
5 October 2025
Eleven of the world's leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, urge governments to recognize and defend the economic value of public interest media in the age of AI. Philippe Aghion is one of the signatories. E... Read more...
28 September 2025
In an interview with Les Echos, Xavier Jaravel, deputy president of the Council of Economic Analysis (CAE) and professor at the London School of Economics, develops similar arguments. The economist proposes in particular... Read more...
24 September 2025
To fill the state's coffers, the European Tax Observatory led by Gabriel Zucman proposes a tax on billionaires and a tax on multinationals that could generate twenty billion according to the author and five billion accor... Read more...
The London School of Economics revisited the subject earlier this year, calling it a "productivity puzzle" while concluding that the U.K. had "had the worst contraction in labour productivity after the financial crisis" ... Read more...
23 September 2025
On the other front, conservative French media such as Le Figar or label the aforementioned rate as "delusional". Philippe Aghion, professor of economics at Insead and the London School of Economics and considered Macron'... Read more...
21 September 2025
A recent report from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that between 2011 and 2019 productivity grew by 0.5 per cent a year in the UK compared with 0.8 per cent in the US. Read m... Read more...
19 September 2025
Jonathan Haskel highlights the shift from tangible to intangible economics, driven by outsourcing and demand for diverse goods. Read more at The Economic Times. ... Read more...
18 September 2025
"There is …path dependency. Firms are very reluctant to change the type of technology, and focus on incremental improvements instead," notes Antonin Bergeaud of HEC Paris, a business school. Read more at The Econ... Read more...
"A stressed worker cannot perform well," Pissarides told me during the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Paradoxically, his research suggests that new AI tools may be beneficial but the constant pressure to adapt is having ... Read more...
17 September 2025
"It is difficult to anticipate evasion strategies," warns Xavier Jaravel, professor at the London School of Economics and deputy president of the Council of Economic Analysis. But the behavioral response is likely to be ... Read more...
16 September 2025
Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University. "So what it seems like is there's a growing gap between what firms are asking and what's actually happening on the ground." Listen to the interview at Marketpla... Read more...
15 September 2025
Seven economists, including Philippe Aghion, Christian Gollier and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau, say in an op-ed for Le Monde that the 'Zucman tax' would not yield the expected revenue and would face legal, economic and behavi... Read more...
9 September 2025
Philippe Aghion, professor at the College de France and the London School of Economics, predicts a rise in productivity thanks to the new cycle of AI, which will range between 1.3 percentage points for the electric revol... Read more...
7 September 2025
Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves appointed London School of Economics Professor John Van Reenen as an adviser on economic growth, the government said in a statement on Monday. Read more at Reuters. ... Read more...
1 September 2025
Jonathan Haskel, professor of economics at Imperial College London, adds that scale and, in turn, concentration can become “supercharged” by network effects. For instance, as more buyers and sellers join Amaz... Read more...
10 August 2025