Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company.

His work has been covered in a range of media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Economist and Financial Times. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Career Award, the Bernacer Prize, the EIB Prize and the Frisch Medal. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from UCL.

On the personal side he is English living with his Scottish Wife and American kids - a multi-lingual English household on Stanford campus

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Who Benefits From New Technologies?

Article | Jun 22, 2020

Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?

The Geography of New Technologies

Paper Working Paper | | Jun 2020

Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?