This week, during Public Service Recognition Week of all weeks, my social feeds are filled with tributes and reflections from friends and colleagues leaving federal service because they were either forced out or saw the writing on the wall. We are collectively losing decades upon decades of expertise and knowledge that up until now has […] The post Public Service and Imagining the Future Public Sector appeared first on Center for Public Enterprise.| Center for Public Enterprise
How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper, available here in open access, Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, Jonathan Chapman and I show that Justices of the Peace (JPs) — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth. The paper is also available as a … Continue reading Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution→| Economic Growth in History
I’ve been too busy to even post new papers here as they come out or get published, but will now share two recent Lewis Lab working paper releases for anyone interested: State capacity and exe…| Economic Growth in History
From the polycrisis to the pace of technological change, our old ways of governing are struggling. But a new ‘how’ is taking shape, argues James Plunkett. It combines missions, relational practices, and internet-era methods to create a new type of state. One that is both more technically adept and more human.| Renewal
Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it’s a parlour game. What remains underexplored, however, is the more tractabl…| pseudoerasmus