Neil Lee

CASE Associate and Professor of Economic Geography

Expertise: economic development, innovation, labour markets, public policy

Email:

n.d.lee@lse.ac.uk

Room:

CKK 4.23

Connect:

Twitter
Website

Links:

CASE
Department of Geography and Environment

Biography

Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography and a CASE affiliate. He joined LSE and CASE in 2013, having run a research team in a think-tank. He has been an academic visitor at Columbia, Oxford, Science Po Toulouse, and the University of Inland Norway.

Neil Lee's current research interests are:

Economic development
Inequality
Spatial inequality

Neil's latest projects include:

Latest

Blog

How to make Labour's National Wealth Fund work

12 February 2025

Cassandra Chong and Neil Lee

Labour's plans for growth include the creation of a National Wealth Fund. A closer look at the proposals reveals that this is not like other Sovereign Wealth Funds, but is in fact more like a Green Investment Bank, meant... Read more...

Blog

City Talks: Why we are seeing a boom in urban economics research (Podcast)

12 September 2024

Andrew Carter, Neil Lee, Max Nathan and Helen Simpson

We are constantly finding out more about where people live and work, how people move around, where businesses choose to locate, and where people spend their money - all of which adds more depth to our picture of cities. ... Read more...

Blog

What economists think of Labour's economic policy

20 May 2024

Neil Lee

The UK will soon have an election and, if the polls are right, Labour will take power for the first time since 1997. There are many similarities between now and then. As in 1997, the Conservative party look tired, voters... Read more...

Blog

City Talks: Sharing the benefits of a high-tech economy (podcast)

07 May 2024

Neil Lee

Centre for Cities chief executive Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Neil Lee, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and author of Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the... Read more...

External publications

Labour Economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

22 April 2024

Timothy Besley, Aveek Bhattacharya, Jagjit Chadha, Paul Cheshire, Neil Lee, Alan Manning, Andrew McNeil, Margarida Bandeira Morais, Henry G. Overman, David Soskice, Anna Valero, Giles Wilkes and Alison Wolf

With the Labour Party having vowed to achieve the fastest growth in the G7, the Social Market Foundation has brought together leading economic experts to provide independent analysis of the party's proposed approach - an... Read more...

Blog

Book Review: Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy by Neil Lee

24 March 2024

Neil Lee

In 'Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy' Neil Lee proposes abandoning the Silicon Valley-style innovation hub, which concentrates its wealth, for alternative, more equitable mode... Read more...

Chapter

Inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems

14 March 2024

Max Herbertson and Neil Lee

Cities and regions with the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems are often marked by high levels of inequality. These inequalities have, however, often been overlooked in policy and academic circles. Seeking to remedy th... Read more...

Journal article

Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography

08 March 2024

Neil Lee

Two of the canonical approaches in regional studies are global production networks (GPNs) and evolutionary economic geography (EEG). Recent geopolitical and economic events have shown the importance of both theories in e... Read more...

Journal article

Spatial Labour Market Inequality and Social Protection in the UK

01 March 2024

Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham and Neil Lee

Spatial inequality in economic outcomes is increasingly seen as a problem for national economies. This paper considers spatial inequality in the UK labour market, its causes, and potential policy solutions. Relative to o... Read more...

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

Cultural Diversity, Cities and Innovation: Firm Effects or City Effects?

06 December 2013

Neil Lee (LSE)