Experts

Robin Adams is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Economic History, Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests include the careers of business elites, popular political fundraising, and the economic history of modern Ireland. His book, Shadow of a Taxman: Who funded the Irish Revolution? is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is particularly interested in the future of work and innovation, his recent books include ‘Humans as a Service: the Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy’ (OUP 2018) and ‘Great Debates in EU Law’ (MacMillan 2021). Since April 2021, Jeremias leads a five-year research project on Algorithms at Work, funded by the European Research Council and a 2020 Leverhulme Prize. He tweets

Arun is a Direct of the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and has affiliations with the International Inequalities Institute and CAGE Research Centre. He studies issues of inequality, tax compliance, and tax design, with a focus on those with high incomes or wealth. He is also co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to increase the diversity of people

Matthew Agarwala leads the Bennett Institute for Public Policy’s Wealth Economy project at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include: wealth accounting, natural and social capital, economic measurement, and the economics of wellbeing. Matthew’s work spans sectors and disciplines, with co-authors including ecologists, economists, conservationists, social anthropologists, civil servants, members of UK Parliament, and Nobel Laureates in peace, medicine, physics, and

Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France and at INSEAD, and a centennial professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the economics of growth and innovation. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth paradigm. Much of this work is summarized in their joint book Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998). More recently Philippe Aghion produced a new book entitled The Power of Creative destruction (Harvard University Press) joint with C.

Gabriel Ahlfeldt is a quantitative spatial economist. His primary field is urban economics, but his research cuts across many fields such as environment, finance, labour, political economy, and real estate. He is Professor of Econometrics at Humboldt University in Berlin, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, faculty of the Berlin School of Economics, a research fellow at IAB, and an affiliate of the Centre for Economic Performance, CESifo, and CEPR.