Highly interesting! "The software complexity of nations" by Sándor Juhász, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski, and César A. Hidalgo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This looks like a must-read! "A.I. and Our Economic Future" by Charles I. Jones "What if machines — A.I. for cognitive tasks and A.I. plus advanced robots for physical tasks — can perform every task a human can do but more cheaply?" web.stanford.edu/~chadj/AIand...

Highly recommended! "Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion" by Jones, Tonetti "Two key findings emerge. First, automation leads economic growth to accelerate over the next 75 years. Second, the acceleration is remarkably slow." web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Jones...

Highly relevant! "The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" by Sascha O. Becker, Christian Dustmann, and Hyejin Ku. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Highly relevant! "The first 1000 days and beyond: The process of child development" by Orazio Attanasio. www.nber.org/papers/w34651

Super interesting! "Renewable Energy Expansion: Key Challenges and Emerging Opportunities" by Koichiro Ito. "This article reviews recent economic studies and identifies three central challenges and corresponding opportunities for scaling up renewable energy..." www.nber.org/papers/w34644

Highly relevant! "How to AI-proof your job: The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market" by John Burn-Murdoch. www.ft.com/content/5e25...

Super interesting! "Urban-Biased Structural Change" by Horng Chern Wong, Dennis Novy, Carlo Perroni, and Natalie Chen. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Food for thought! "Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030" (WEF) "Human capital strategies and investments prioritized today will determine how well societies and individual businesses can adapt to – and lead in – the new economy." www.weforum.org/publications...

Highly relevant! "O-Ring Automation" by Joshua S. Gans and Avi Goldfarb. "The relevant object is not average task exposure but the structure of bottlenecks and how automation reshapes worker time around them." www.nber.org/papers/w34639

Super interesting food for thought! "AI Changed Work Forever in 2025" by Erik Brynjolfsson. "...the judgment to know what to ask, why it matters, and how to evaluate if the AI has actually succeeded. We will be the architects; the AI will be the builders." time.com/7342494/ai-c...

Super interesting! "The Allocation of Time and Remote Work" by Christos Makridis. "...productivity gains reflect reallocation toward more productive, remote intensive industries and selection of relatively productive workers into those industries." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Highly recommended! "The Economics of Climate Innovation: Technology, Climate Policy, and the Clean Energy Transition" by Eugenie Dugoua and Jacob Moscona. www.nber.org/papers/w34601

This looks like a must-read! "Human Capital and Development" by Philippe Aghion, Ingvild Almås, and Costas Meghir. www.nber.org/papers/w34602

This was a highly relevant read in 2025! "The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century" edited by Tim Besley, Irene Bucelli, and Andrés Velasco. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

This was a super interesting paper in 2025! "Integrating Climate Change into Macroeconomic Analysis: A Review of Impact Channels, Data, Models, and Scenarios" by various authors from the IMF. www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...

Super interesting! This was a highlight of 2025! "The Data Economy: Tools and Applications" by Isaac Baley and Laura L. Veldkamp. amzn.to/4p5U2vX

Food for thought! "The Power of Proximity to Coworkers" by Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Highly relevant! "Measuring Natural Resources in the National Accounts" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June. Deadline: 31 January 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... @rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social #EconSky

Very valuable! "Mapping the global quantum ecosystem: A comprehensive analysis based on innovation, firm, investment, skills, trade and policy data" by the OECD and the European Patent Office. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

This looks like a must-read! "The Digitalist Papers: The Economics of Transformative AI" by Daniel Susskind, Erik Brynjolfsson, Anton Korinek, Alex Pentland, Ajay Agrawal, and others. Online: www.digitalistpapers.com/volume2 Amazon: amzn.to/3YwlHLH

Food for thought! "Why working from home varies across countries and people" by Pablo Zarate, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Cevat Giray Aksoy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Highly recommended! 2025 prize lectures in economic sciences: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. They explore the historical context and future implications of technological progress, including creative destruction and institutional challenges. www.youtube.com/live/jQCkCcu...

Food for thought! "The scale and limits of migration in offsetting population ageing" by Pablo García Guzmán, Federica Coelli, and Emily Nilsson. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Highly recommended! "Imperfect Oracle" by Cass R. Sunstein. "The promise is that in important ways AI is better than we are at making judgments. Its limits are evidenced by the fact that AI cannot always make accurate predictions..." amzn.to/48KERSQ

Interesting piece by ESCoE Leadership Executive member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @michaelkenny.bsky.social ( @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk ).

Highly relevant! "The economics of water scarcity" by Jon Frost, Carlos Madeira, and Serafín Martínez Jaramillo. www.bis.org/publ/work131...

Super interesting! "The Innovation Race: Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies" by Zoë B. Cullen, Ester Faia, Elisa Guglielminetti, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Concetta Rondinelli. www.nber.org/papers/w34532

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt received the Nobel Prize for their work on innovation and economic growth. The official award ceremony will take place on December 10. It's high time to read interesting books like this one: "The Enlightened Economy" by Joel Mokyr amzn.to/4pNc5Yz

Highly relevant! "Navigating Motherhood: Endogenous Penalties and Career Choice" by Sena Coskun, Husnu Dalgic, and Yasemin Ozdemir. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4xp48...

Looking forward to reading this book! "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity" by Daron Acemoglu. amzn.to/3XtC77d

Very valuable! There are quite a few innovation indicators. Each one has its pros and cons. And each one is valuable. Innovation Indicator 2025 www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/...

Highly recommended! "Is the SNA Still Useful? A Review Article on The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters" by Paul Schreyer. www.csls.ca/ipm/49/Schre...

Highly relevant! "Adult Skills and Productivity: New Evidence from PIAAC 2023" by Dan Andrews, Balázs Égert, and Christine de La Maisonneuve. www.csls.ca/ipm/49/Andre...

Highly recommended! 2025 Remote Work Conference The Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) co-hosted a conference on the implications of remote work. Recordings and slides are available here: www.hoover.org/events/2025-...

Food for thought! "The Global Value of Cities" by Aakash Bhalothia, Gavin Engelstad, Gaurav Khanna, and Harrison Mitchell. www.nber.org/papers/w34503

Food for thought! "Economic Development According to Chandler" by Niklas Engbom, Hannes Malmberg, Tommaso Porzio, Federico Rossi, and Todd Schoellman. www.nber.org/papers/w34483

This text about Philippe Aghion is highly recommended! Lunch with the Financial Times: Economist Philippe Aghion "For Aghion,...the key comes from inclusive but innovative economic growth. “We cannot distribute what we have not produced,” he says." www.ft.com/content/d9a5...

Highly recommended! "The Economics of Climate Innovation: Technology, Climate Policy, and the Clean Energy Transition" by Eugenie Dugoua and Jacob Moscona. "This chapter examines the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Highly relevant! "The ENV-FIBA Model for Climate Risk Analysis" by Marco Gross, Jinhyuk Yoo, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Zulma Barrail, Salim Dehmej, and Hannah Sheldon. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Highly recommended! "Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People" by Pablo A. Peña. Chicago University Press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Amazon: amzn.to/4i7f3EB

Highly relevant! "Occupations, Human Capital Accumulation and Inequality" by Andrés Erosa, Luisa Fuster, Gueorgui Kambourov, and Richard Rogerson www.nber.org/papers/w34481

Highly relevant! "Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience" by Jesse Bruhn, Jacob Fabian, Luke Gallagher, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, and Aaron R. Phipps. www.nber.org/papers/w34463

Wow, highly relevant! Looking forward to reading this book. "What Should My Children Do? A Human's Guide to the Age of AI" by Daniel Susskind. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812111...

Super relevant! "Making European Reforms a Success on the Ground" IMF Regional Economic Outlook Europe. Structural reforms and lowering intra-European Union cross-border barriers "would raise EU productivity by 20.2 percent." www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Highly relevant! Seven Questions about Creativity and Creative Thinking "This report examines what makes ideas creative across country-language groups...and how successfully students can think creatively in multiple tasks..." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Highly relevant! "Unveiling the J-curve: How Intangibles Drive Productivity Mismeasurement" by Gert Bijnens, Jozef Konings, and Aaron Putseys. cepr.org/publications...

Super interesting! "Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks" by Alexander Bertermann, Wolfgang Dauth, Jens Suedekum, and Ludger Woessmann. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Food for thought! "The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance" by Luis Garicano, Bengt Holmström, and Nicolas Petit. constitutionofinnovation.eu