Huw Spencer

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...

thanks Luke! v pleased it resonates

I’m working on an industrial policy starter pack — here’s a first stab. Send suggestions!

go.bsky.app/Ej9XsNu

The Industrial Commons

That's brilliant- think there's a lot to takeaway from flexible learning models past and present + the sorts of institutions that can embed them into communties. Big fan of the work Industrial Commons do in North Carolina for e.g.. www.theindustrialcommons.org And strongly agree on libraries!

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...

V helpful framing. Would love to see a good-jobs strategy that created Catapults for retail or construction sectors, for instance

interested in this, think scaling done well is less extractive (place A drags and drops solution from place B), more symbiotic (growing/developing public service through mutual learning between places). Would love your sense on what alternative model could look like though

So central govt encouraging local experimentalism good both in terms of finding out what works in public services but also generating local & regional govt capacity along the way

The DfE's innovations in children's social care program helped spark a new wave of collaboration in GM that laid the foundations for the more locally driven joined-up innovations we're seeing now. Relational capabilities (e.g. trust) develop alongside strategic capabilities (e.g. monitoring + eval)

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

👀🔍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...

Felipe Carozzi Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Economic Geography.

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

Refusal Rates of Planning Applications by Region

Agreed! London LAs post 2010 particularly interesting here

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...

A call for New Mechanics' Institutes: huwspencer.substack.com/p/the-new-me...

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

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

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...

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...

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...