John Van Reenen

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 keynote on growth policy at this year's Royal Economic Society Conference lnkd.in/eebDuCBD Basic message: innovation is crucial! Slides here: lnkd.in/e2icrZ64

Fab presentation at British Academy lachisingh.com/ba-exhibition-… @LSEEcon grad student Lachi Singh on street vendors

Did Brexit make us better at communicating economics? Me @LSEImpactBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Really enjoyed #RES2026 and presenting work on growth and innovation policy johnvanreenen.com/_files/ugd/b45… Thanks to all who came to the last session of the conference (& cocktails!)

My interview on Making Defence Spending Pay lnkd.in/efKsx99c with @timsvengali from @cepr_org

My piece in @FT today on the case for keeping Chancellor in place ft.com/content/61042a…

I agree with @johnvanreenen. @FT Letter: Why Burnham should keep Reeves as chancellor - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac… via @FT

📢 Call for Papers: #LSEEnvironmentWeek (21-24 Sept 2026). Fifth conference co-hosted by #LSE_EEE #LSE_GSOS @The_IGC. All PhD students interested in environmental and energy economics are invited to submit papers. 📅 Deadline 5/07/26 (23:59 GMT) Submit 👉 ow.ly/7cNN50ZfNc1

🎙️🌟New episode is out! Our guest is @juhreka13 from British Columbia and we talked about her academic journey, favorite econ books/papers, recent QJE paper on industrialization, Meiji Japan, and more! Enjoy! 🥳 @POID_LSE @CEP_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter

Job vacancy: GSoS is hiring a RA to work with Anna Valero on cutting-edge research on clean tech innovation to inform industrial strategies for sustainable growth. @asvalero @johnvanreenen @LSEnews 📅 deadline: 1 July 2026 (23.59 UK time) Apply 👉: ow.ly/o9nb50ZfASP

📢 Call for Papers: #LSEEnvironmentWeek (21-24 Sept 2026). Fifth conference co-hosted by #LSE_EEE #LSE_GSOS @The_IGC. All PhD students interested in environmental and energy economics are invited to submit papers. 📅 Deadline 5/07/26 (23:59 GMT) Submit 👉 ow.ly/7cNN50ZfNc1

Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Technological progress can be fostered through long-run investments in R&D, education & national security, @voxeu evidence from two centuries of patent data & leverages filings in multiple patent offices, @johnvanreenen & colleagues cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

A good FT piece from Martin Wolf arguing, rightly imv, that at root of UK's political woes is a 20 yr long slowdown in productivity growth "a good economy — one with widely shared economic growth — is a necessary condition for political stability in a liberal democracy"...

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Stromberg @xueping_sun Raphael Wargon & Karoline Westin examine how US restrictions under the China Initiative affected the volume, quality and direction of Chinese research. Read: ow.ly/cakU50P2yn0

Measuring national technological trajectories using 200 years of international patent data By @a_bergeaud @ruveyda_gozen & @johnvanreenen via @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Enough negativity! Underlying UK productivity is stronger than thought and policy has helped blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Philippe Aghion: explaining sustained growth through creative destruction - @johnvanreenen @CEP_LSE cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publicati…

Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outlined their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

✨ March-special episode is out! ✨Our guest is @landais_camille (LSE) and we talked about his academic journey, family economics, gender inequality, child penalty, gender roles and more. Enjoy! 🥳 @CEP_LSE @POID_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter