I'm an economist based in London with interests in climate, macroeconomics, and public policy.
See below for my projects for accessing economic data and applied research.
econstack: AI-powered economic analysis
econstack is a set of Claude Code skills that handle the mechanical parts of economic analysis: live macro and fiscal briefings, market research, policy briefing notes, pre-appraisal longlisting, full cost-benefit analysis, and methodology audit. 7 skills designed to work on the inputs and checks around a policy decision, so you can focus on the judgement calls. Supports HM Treasury Green Book, EU Better Regulation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Australian Treasury (Victoria) frameworks with framework-native output.
/macro-briefing: Pull live macro data for the UK, US, Euro area, or Australia into one briefing/fiscal-briefing: Pull live public finances data and produce a deficit, debt, and fiscal rules briefing/market-research: Produce a source-cited industry report with sizing, competition, Porter's Five Forces, and outlook/briefing-note: Draft a one or two-page policy briefing note for a minister, board, or committee/longlist: Brainstorm all the benefits and costs for a project before you start modelling anything/cost-benefit: Compute economic and financial NPV side by side (backed by thegreenbookR package)/econ-audit: Review any economic analysis for methodology errors and return a RAG scorecard with fixes
buildRpackage: ship R packages to CRAN
A Claude Code skill for the full CRAN submission workflow, built from shipping 25+ R packages to CRAN.
- Pipeline: ideate, name, plan, build, check, audit, submit, resubmit
- Common rejections handled: cache rules, globalenv manipulation, URL 404s, version discipline
- Audit modes: academic (literature, formulas, test adequacy) and code (edge cases, numerical stability, cross-platform)
| Package | Source |
CRAN | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| ons | UK Office for National Statistics | ||
| boe | Bank of England | ||
| hmrc | HM Revenue & Customs | ||
| obr | Office for Budget Responsibility | ||
| ukhousing | UK Land Registry, EPC, Planning | ||
| fred | US Federal Reserve (FRED) | ||
| readnoaa | NOAA Climate Data | ||
| readecb | European Central Bank | ||
| readaec | Australian Electoral Commission | ||
| ato | Australian Taxation Office | ||
| aemo | Australian Energy Market Operator | ||
| cer | Australian Clean Energy Regulator | ||
| readoecd | OECD | ||
| readimf | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | ||
| comtrade | UN Comtrade | ||
| carbondata | Carbon market data | ||
| aieconindex | Anthropic Economic Index (AI usage) |
| Package | Purpose |
CRAN | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| nowcast | Economic nowcasting | ||
| inflationkit | Inflation analysis | ||
| inflateR | Inflation adjustment | ||
| mpshock | Monetary policy shock series | ||
| yieldcurves | Yield curve fitting | ||
| debtkit | Debt sustainability analysis | ||
| greenbook | Cost-benefit analysis primitives | ||
| magentabook | Policy evaluation primitives | ||
| climatekit | Climate indices | ||
| inequality | Inequality and poverty measurement | ||
| predictset | Conformal prediction | ||
| ivcheck | Instrumental variable tests |
econprofile.com : Economic profiles for 391 UK local authorities. Interactive maps, IO impact calculator, compare tool.
Macroeconomics with R : 14-chapter applied macro textbook. UK, European, and international data. Uses the packages above.