UK Economics Consultancy Database
Explore firm and practice records, selected checked financial observations and people coverage, with sources, reporting dates and downloadable data.
/leɪθ/ — rhymes with faith
I'm an economist working in regulatory finance at Smart DCC, the company running Britain's smart meter data network. Previously, I spent six years at the British Business Bank, where I helped secure over £1bn in government funding and led programmes that supported over a million businesses during the pandemic. I also serve as a Non-Executive Director at Wenta, a social enterprise supporting small businesses, and sit on the Council of the Society of Professional Economists.
I grew up in Austria, studied economics in Vienna and Nottingham, and now live in London. This site is where I share what I'm reading, thinking about, and working on. I'm interested in economics, regulation, business, language, history, and philosophy.
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Practical tools, translations, Chrome extensions, and data dashboards — spanning family logistics, the Financial Times, YouTube, Letterboxd, used-car markets, and Soviet textbooks.
The fire that never sleeps — and the question of whether we should let it burn
From Peter Thiel's contrarian take on monopolies to Girard's mimetic desire — an essay on competition across sport, philosophy, economics, and everyday life.
Things I've built — practical tools, translations, Chrome extensions, and data projects.
Explore firm and practice records, selected checked financial observations and people coverage, with sources, reporting dates and downloadable data.
A week-by-week summer holiday planner for families in and around Walthamstow. KidSorted brings 47 local camps into one searchable directory with verified dates, prices, hours and free HAF places — then helps parents turn a shortlist into a complete six-week plan and budget.
What would one original S&P 500 share be worth today if every later stock split were reassembled? NeverSplit connects issuer-backed split histories, raw IPO share prices, market capitalisation, index weight and an attributed Kaggle history into one traceable research interface.
A visual journey through 1,872 Criterion catalogue entries, 410 Closet visits, and 272 written guest Top 10 lists. Scroll from the whole collection to the films people choose. Compare creative professions, wander through decades, open a box set, and follow a guest to your next film.
A complete English digitisation of A.P. Kiselev's Arithmetic (1938 edition) — the standard Soviet mathematics textbook used across Russia for decades. Translated from Russian and formatted as a navigable web document with sidebar table of contents.
An interactive value-for-money analysis of 499 used Škoda Octavias on sale at UK approved retailers. Two takes on the same dataset: a regression-residual ranking (v1) that flags cars priced below their predicted value, and a weighted-preference dashboard (v2) that lets you tune what matters — body, trim, fuel, gearbox, mileage, age, dealer location.
A wider browser across the full Škoda UK used market, sourced from Marketcheck. Filter by model, trim, body, fuel, transmission, price, mileage, model year, and dealer/city — then layer on weighted preferences to surface what matters most.
A Chrome extension that brings back the classic Financial Times comment experience. The FT's current comment system collapses all replies by default, making it tedious to follow discussions. This extension lets you expand or collapse all comments with one click, or set it to auto-expand every time.
A Chrome extension that sorts your YouTube video tabs by duration — shortest videos on the left, longest on the right. Built for those moments when you have a dozen YouTube tabs open and only a few minutes to spare.
A swipe-style interface and local profile database for Letterboxd (formerly Vypode). Browse films as a card deck — swipe to mark as watched, like, watchlist, or skip — while a local-only, searchable database of your watched history builds on your device. Actions happen in the background so you never leave the deck.
Things I'm actively building, writing, or training for. Some are close to launch, others are still taking shape.
A reading community built around Stripe Press titles — 19 books on technology, economics, science, and civilisation, read across four seasonal quarters in 2026.