Jonathan Haskel will discuss how the economy is turning from one where firms invest in tangible assets, such as machines to intangible assets such as software, design, branding and R&D. How do we measure this and what might the effects be on economic growth.
Professor Jonathan Haskel - Jonathan Haskel is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, where he has been since 2008. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London; Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA and Stern School of Business, New York University, USA. His research interests are productivity and growth.
He has published in academic journals and written, with Stian Westlake, two non-technical books, Capitalism Without Capital: the Rise of the Intangible Economy (Princeton, 2017) and Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy (Princeton 2022).
In addition to his academic activities, he has been an External Member of the Reporting Panel of the Competition and Markets Authority (2001-2009); a non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority (2016-2022) and an External Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (2018-2024).
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