Economics in business

Tackling the talent crunch

By Nick C Jones, Director, Public Sector Research Centre Talent shortages are having a real impact on growth and profitability. As PwC’s latest Annual Global CEO Survey shows, about a quarter of CEOs (29%) were unable to pursue market opportunities last year as a consequence and 43% of CEOs have...

What can leaders learn from the field of behavioural economics?

By David Lancefield, Economics Partner Advances in behavioural economics – the combination of psychology, and real world experiments, with traditional economic theory – tell us something about the agenda for leaders of the future. Naturally, people have emotions, prejudices and biases. And often we’re not fully aware of them when...