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Working Papers

2024

1. Converging to Mediocrity: Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute

2023

2. Investment in the UK - Longer Term Trends
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute
3. Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview, Fiscal Studies, John Wiley & Sons (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
4. Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (2)
5. Why isn’t digitalisation improving productivity growth?
   Insight Papers, The Productivity Institute

2022

6. Are digital-using UK firms more productive?
   Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (3)
7. Diagnosing the Uk Productivity Slowdown: Which Sectors Matter and Why?
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Diagnosing the UK productivity slowdown: which sectors matter and why?, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2023) View citations (8) (2023)
8. Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction
   Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE)
   See also Chapter Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2024) (2024)
9. Healthcare as social infrastructure: productivity and the UK NHS during and after Covid-19
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (1)
10. You’re not speaking my language - policy discontinuity and coordination gaps between the UK’s national economic strategies and its place-based policies
    Working Papers, The Productivity Institute

2021

11. Potential social value from data: an application of discrete choice analysis
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (2)
12. Productivity in UK healthcare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
    Working Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article PRODUCTIVITY IN UK HEALTHCARE DURING AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2021) (2021)
13. The Data Economy: Market Size and Global Trade
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (7)
14. The idea of productivity
    Working Papers, The Productivity Institute
15. UK’s Industrial Policy: Learning from the past?
    Insight Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (1)
16. Uber and Beyond - Policy Implications for the UK
    Insight Papers, The Productivity Institute

2020

17. Free goods and economic welfare
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (3)
18. Telecoms Deflators: A Story of Volume and Revenue Weights
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Telecoms Deflators: A Story of Volume and Revenue Weights, Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE) (2022) View citations (3) (2022)
19. Valuing Goods Online and Offline: the Impact of Covid-19
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (3)

2019

20. No plant, no problem? Factoryless manufacturing and economic measurement
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (1)
21. The Imperial Treasury: Appraisal Methodology and Regional Economic Performance in the UK
    Economics Discussion Paper Series, Economics, The University of Manchester View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article The imperial treasury: appraisal methodology and regional economic performance in the UK, Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) View citations (6) (2020)
22. Toward a Framework for Time Use, Welfare, and Household Centric Economic Measurement
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia View citations (2)
    Also in Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) (2019) View citations (3)
23. Understanding the Sharing Economy
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE)

2018

24. Cloud Computing and National Accounting
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (11)

2017

25. A Comparison of Approaches to Deflating Telecoms Services Output
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (11)
26. Do-it-yourself digital: the production boundary and the productivity puzzle
    Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) View citations (4)
27. Homo Economicus, AIs, Humans and Rats: Decision-Making and Economic Welfare
    Economics Discussion Paper Series, Economics, The University of Manchester

2016

28. The Political Economy of National Statistics
    Economics Discussion Paper Series, Economics, The University of Manchester View citations (1)

2015

29. Talking about the National Accounts: Statistics and the Democratic Conversation
    Economics Discussion Paper Series, Economics, The University of Manchester View citations (1)

1984

30. Conditional Projection by Means of Kalman Filtering
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (15)
    Also in NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1984) View citations (14)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Old Wine in New Digital Bottles: The Challenges of Measuring the Digital Economy
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71, (2)
2. The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations
   Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2025, 18, (1), 17-24

2024

3. 21st century progress in computing
   Telecommunications Policy, 2024, 48, (1) View citations (2)
4. A real options approach to data valuation
   Business Economics, 2024, 59, (4), 227-234
5. Everything Everywhere All At Once: competition policy and industrial policy choices in an era of structural change
   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40, (4), 718-728
6. Productivity and Industrial Policy by Design: The UK Experience
   International Productivity Monitor, 2024, 47, 20-38
7. Recent trends in firm‐level total factor productivity in the UK: new measures, new puzzles
   Economica, 2024, 91, (364), 1320-1348
8. What is the value of data? A review of empirical methods
   Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38, (4), 1317-1337 View citations (1)

2023

9. Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies
   European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 79, (C) View citations (1)
10. Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state
    Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2023, 16, (1), 31-48 View citations (1)
11. Diagnosing the UK productivity slowdown: which sectors matter and why?
    Economica, 2023, 90, (359), 813-850 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Diagnosing the Uk Productivity Slowdown: Which Sectors Matter and Why?, Working Papers (2022) View citations (3) (2022)
12. ECONOMIC PROGRESS AND ADAM SMITH’S DILEMMA
    National Institute Economic Review, 2023, 265, 5-11
13. Free Digital Products and Aggregate Economic Measurement
    Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2023, (539), 27-50 View citations (1)
14. Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview
    Fiscal Studies, 2023, 44, (2), 109-121 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
15. Levelling up policies and the failure to learn
    Contemporary Social Science, 2023, 18, (3-4), 406-427
16. „Wir wissen nicht wirklich, wie die auf digitalen Märkten entstehende Wohlfahrt zu verbuchen ist“: Ein Gespräch über faire Kritik an der Ökonomik, gesellschaftliche Normen und soziales Kapital, das BIP als Wohlfahrtsindikator sowie Wettbewerb und Kartellrecht
    Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2023, 24, (1), 98-109

2022

17. Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel (eds.): Measuring and accounting for innovation in the twenty-first century (NBER studies in income and wealth, volume 78)
    Business Economics, 2022, 57, (1), 23-24
18. No plant, no problem? Factoryless manufacturing, economic measurement and national manufacturing policies
    Review of International Political Economy, 2022, 29, (1), 23-43 View citations (1)
19. Shaping successful mega-project investments
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38, (2), 224-236 View citations (2)
20. Telecoms Deflators: A Story of Volume and Revenue Weights
    Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2022, (530-31), 43-59 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Telecoms Deflators: A Story of Volume and Revenue Weights, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (2) (2020)
21. Time Use, Productivity, and Household-centric Measurement of Welfare in the Digital Economy
    International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 42, 165-186
22. To them that hath: economic complexity and local industrial strategy in the UK
    International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 29, (2), 358-377 View citations (9)

2021

23. Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how it can be fixed
    (Capitalism, Laws, and the Need for Trustworthy Institutions)
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37, (4), 637-649 View citations (4)
24. Natural capital in climate models
    Nature Sustainability, 2021, 4, (2), 81-82 View citations (4)
25. PRODUCTIVITY IN UK HEALTHCARE DURING AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
    National Institute Economic Review, 2021, 258, 90-116
    See also Working Paper Productivity in UK healthcare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, Working Papers (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2020

26. A Comparison of Deflators for Telecommunications Services Output
    Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2020, (517-518-519), 103-122 View citations (3)
27. Economists must collaborate courageously
    Nature, 2020, 582, (7810), 9-9 View citations (5)
28. Preface – National Accounting: Old Questions Revisited, Plus Some New Ones
    Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2020, (517-518-519), 5-7
29. The imperial treasury: appraisal methodology and regional economic performance in the UK
    Regional Studies, 2020, 54, (3), 283-295 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper The Imperial Treasury: Appraisal Methodology and Regional Economic Performance in the UK, Economics Discussion Paper Series (2019) View citations (13) (2019)

2019

30. , AIs, humans and rats: decision-making and economic welfare
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2019, 26, (1), 2-12 View citations (2)
31. Cloud Computing, Cross-Border Data Flows and New Challenges for Measurement in Economics
    National Institute Economic Review, 2019, 249, (1), R30-R38 View citations (6)
    Also in National Institute Economic Review, 2019, 249, R30-R38 (2019) View citations (5)
32. Do‐it‐yourself Digital: the Production Boundary, the Productivity Puzzle and Economic Welfare
    Economica, 2019, 86, (344), 750-774 View citations (7)
33. Measuring Progress: A Review Essay on The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life by Eli Cook
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2019, 57, (3), 659-77 View citations (1)
34. Review of Economic indicators for professionals by Charles Steindel
    Business Economics, 2019, 54, (1), 100-101
35. When capitalisms collide
    Nature, 2019, 574, (7778), 322-324

2018

36. Summer reads: Darwin’s dilemma on sexual selection, ecology versus empire, and the dark side of the greater good
    Nature, 2018, 559, (7714), 328-330

2017

37. All to play for in measuring the economy
    Journal of Cultural Economy, 2017, 10, (1), 122-125
38. Philipp Lepenies, The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), pp. 208, $30. ISBN: 978-0-23117-510-4
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 39, (4), 610-611
39. Precarious and Productive Work in the Digital Economy
    National Institute Economic Review, 2017, 240, R5-R14 View citations (7)
    Also in National Institute Economic Review, 2017, 240, (1), R5-R14 (2017) View citations (18)
40. The Future of the National Accounts: Statistics and the Democratic Conversation My thanks to Dave Giles, James Grant, Magnus Henrekson, Johannes Hirata, Alice Nakamura, Peter Sinclair and Geoff Tily for comments on an early draft, and to participants at the conference of the IARIW at the OECD, Paris, April 2015. I would also like to thank the referees for their careful attention and comments. All responsibility is of course mine. Diane.Coyle@manchester.ac.uk
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63, S223-S237
41. The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
    Quantitative Finance, 2017, 17, (11), 1655-1657

2016

42. Economics: GDP in the dock
    Nature, 2016, 534, (7608), 472-473 View citations (1)
43. Summer books
    Nature, 2016, 535, (7611), 228-230

2015

44. Commentary: Modernising Economic Statistics: Why It Matters
    National Institute Economic Review, 2015, 234, (1), F4-F7 View citations (2)
    Also in National Institute Economic Review, 2015, 234, F4-F7 (2015) View citations (1)

2013

45. Comment on David Colander article
    International Review of Economics Education, 2013, 12, (C), 84-85

2012

46. The paradox of popularity in economics
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2012, 19, (3), 187-192 View citations (2)
47. Verweisen wirtschaftliche Krisen auf Krisen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften?
    Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2012, 61, (1), 103-117 View citations (2)

2007

48. How to Tackle Poverty
    World Economics, 2007, 8, (3), 1-5 View citations (1)

2005

49. THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR IMMIGRATION
    Economic Affairs, 2005, 25, (1), 53-55 View citations (2)

2003

50. Pride and Prejudice
    World Economics, 2003, 4, (1), 1-6

Books

2015

1. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History (Revised and Expanded Edition)
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (28)

2014

2. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (101)

2012

3. The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (14)

2010

4. The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters: Revised Edition
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (6)

2002

5. Making Sense of Globalization: A Guide to the Economic Issues
   Monographs in Economics, University of Munich, Department of Economics View citations (19)

1999

6. The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (24)

Chapters

2024

1. Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction
   A chapter in Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth, 2024
   See also Working Paper Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) (2022) (2022)
2. Measuring for the Future, Not the Past
   A chapter in Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, 2024, pp 35-59
3. State and Markets: Not Whether But How
   Springer

2014

4. Introduction
   A chapter in The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance, 2014

2012

5. Overview
   A chapter in The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters, 2012

2010

6. Introduction
   A chapter in The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters: Revised Edition, 2010

2007

7. Introduction to The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
   A chapter in The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters, 2007 View citations (9)