Nick Crafts memorial collection
Professor Nick Crafts CBE FBA (9 March 1949 – 6 October 2023) was a well-respected economist and economic historian whose influential research into the British Industrial Revolution provided a careful framework for thinking about the timing, scale and impact of industrialisation. In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and, in 2014, was awarded a CBE for services to economics.
After retirement from full-time academe, during which time he had established the ESRC Research Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick and held posts at Exeter, Berkeley, Oxford, Leeds and the LSE, he became a part-time Professor of Economic History at the University of Sussex. In 2020, he was elected as Chair of Council of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), and in 2022 was President of the Royal Economic Society.
This virtual special issue - a tribute to Nick’s academic career – comprises a collection of some of the works that Professor Crafts published in the National Institute Economic Review. His work was read widely, not only for the detail of his scholarship but also for its accessibility – and for its relevance to today’s big economic policy challenges.
The NIER articles below are free to read until the end of 2023.
Research Articles
Persistent Productivity Failure in the UK: Is the EU Really to Blame?
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 247 / 2019
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- 01 January 2020, pp. R10-R18
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Long-Term Growth in Europe: What Difference does the Crisis Make?
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 224 / 2013
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- 26 March 2020, pp. R14-R28
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UK Economic Growth since 2010: Is it as Bad as it Seems?
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 231 / 2015
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- 01 January 2020, pp. R17-R29
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IS THE UK PRODUCTIVITY SLOWDOWN UNPRECEDENTED?
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 251 / 2020
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- 05 February 2020, pp. R47-R53
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Notes and Contributions
Predicting Medium-Term TFP Growth in the United States: Econometrics vs ‘Techno-Optimism’
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 242 / 2017
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- 01 January 2020, pp. R60-R67
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Recent European Economic Growth: Why Can't it be Like the Golden Age?
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 199 / 2007
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- 26 March 2020, pp. 69-81
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UK Real National Income, 1950-1998: Some Grounds for Optimism
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- National Institute Economic Review / Volume 181 / 2002
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- 26 March 2020, pp. 87-95
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