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Huw Spencer

@huwspencer.bsky.social
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Economic development practitioner and Policy Fellow at the Productivity Institute. Regional growth, democracy and industrial policy.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 10/11/2024
I’m working on an industrial policy starter pack — here’s a first stab. Send suggestions! go.bsky.app/Ej9XsNu
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Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thought-provoking essay on locally-driven innovation. For my two cents I wrote about the sorts of infrastructure that could be required for inclusive technological diffusion here: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/two-hun...
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Two hundred years on from their creation, what can Mechanics' Institutes tell us about how to get the UK economy moving again? - The Productivity Institute
How 19th-century institutions committed to hands-on learning and technological diffusion could be adapted to the modern age.
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Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Great to see Sam and @jpspencer.bsky.social bring attention to this (and see the brill work of former colleagues recognized). An underrated aspect of piloting/scaling programs through MCAs is how they can build up local capacity- within CAs but also through new relationships between LAs
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 02/10/2024
👀🔍We’re looking for a Research Associate & a Research Assistant to join our team to work on UK productivity performance as part of the @productivity.bsky.social programme. For more details & to apply by 13 Oct 2024 visit: bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...
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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Paper 4, session 3 #UEA2024. Another LSE colleague - looking at the election cycle in UK planning decisions. Refusal rates go up 2 percentage points (on an 18% baseline) in the quarter just before local authority elections. www.felipecarozzi.com
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Felipe Carozzi
Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Economic Geography.
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Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Great to have our latest report out with Reimagining the Economy on how the UK can navigate upcoming trade-offs in green industrial policy. In short: devolve where practicable, use distinct policy tools for distinct objectives, invest in local capacity to deliver www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
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Renewing Britain | Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
An unenviable industrial in-tray: The new UK government faces the task of developing a new green industrial strategy at the same time as accelerating growth in an economy that has experienced the seco...
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
A call for New Mechanics' Institutes: huwspencer.substack.com/p/the-new-me...
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Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Really pleased to have contributed to this issue on modern supply side economics, exploring what it would take to create a good-jobs economy in the UK with @drodrik.bsky.social
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George Dibb @georgedibb.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
The issue features pieces from UK and intl leading thinkers on all aspects of the new emerging economic consensus Including 👉@drodrik.bsky.social & @huwspencer.bsky.social on productivism 👉Greg Clark MP, David Edgerton, @asvalero.bsky.social & @johnvanreenen.bsky.social on industrial strategy
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Anna Valero @asvalero.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
A new special edition of @IPPR Progressive Review on modern supply side economics is out today. Includes my piece with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social on how to embed green industrial policy in a growth strategy, and lots more... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25732331...
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Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Pleased to have written an article (with the fantastic @jcaustin.bsky.social & @jefeja.bsky.social) in IPPR Progressive Review on what a Labour Industrial Strategy can learn from US. Edited by @georgedibb.bsky.social it’s very timely given focus on £28bn. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25732331...
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IPPR Progressive Review: Vol 30, No 3
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Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Really enjoyed breaking my duck on substack for the TxP progress prize. Riffed on my favourite article from the Mill last year to talk about Mechanics' Institutes, technological diffusion and chicken burgers huwspencer.substack.com/p/the-new-me...
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