​We are a consortium of  independent experts,
with some history of collaboration.  We bring
advanced training and decades of industry
​experience in economics to bear on policy
analysis, asset and ​contract evaluation, expert
​testimony, and ​scholarly research.  We explain 
quantitative analysis and forecasts of energy,
labor, housing, and financial markets, and
macroeconomic activity, using plain language,
orthodox economic theory, and econometric
and mathematical techniques.  

The word "utility" in the name refers to a few 
things:  Our work is useful to our clients; much
of that work concerns public utilities; the ideas
of utilitarian philosophers feature prominently
in economic theory; and that ​theory ​​comes
alive ​when used ​to understand events.