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Do Expectations Drive Big Events?
Michael Hatcher - A key distinction between economies and physical systems, like the weather, is that economies consist of individuals who form expectations about the future.
15 November 2018
Welcome to Rebuilding Macroeconomics
Rebuilding Macroeconomics is a diverse and extensive network of mainstream and heterodox economists and academics from anthropology, biology, complexity, finance, history, philosophy, physics, psychology, sociology. Our Network brings together academics, policy makers, representatives of civil society and interested members of the public. Our aim is to transform macroeconomics into a policy-relevant social science.
Rebuilding Macroeconomics is a research network structured around a concept of Research Hubs. Each Hub addresses a specific “real world” macroeconomic issue and aims to ask relevant questions, chosen after extensive consultation with academics and the public. Hubs are settings for scholars and practitioners to explore and learn from each other, and to consider possible new methods of investigation.
Does inequality undermine macroeconomic performance?
Will technology be fundamentally disruptive to our way of work?
How can we improve macroeconomic models for policy?
Upcoming events and dates
15 Nov
Can Globalisation Benefit All? 2nd Workshop
The Globalisation Hub held its first workshop on 21 May 2018 to inform its research call. From this discussion, several interesting points were raised about the distributional aspect to globalisation and we are holding this workshop to investigate these issues further.
Latest updates
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- Rebuild Macro Blog
Central Banking: When Communication is the Policy
The psychological and behavioural economics literature has had a transformative impact on how we understand people’s financial and personal decision-making. Studies have shown that more information isn’t always better, that defaulting people into saving can help them save more, and sending a letter to customers about the best tariffs for them can increase the chance of energy switching.
13 November 2018
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Financial Resilience
Ekaterina Svetlova - Why ‘financial resilience’ rather than ‘financial stability’? We believe that resilience shows greater appreciation of the evolution of the underlying economy and the need for the financial system to respond and adapt, while at the same time being robust to shocks.
05 November 2018
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Bringing Psychology & Social Sciences into Macroeconomics: Summary
Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first annual conference at HM Treasury, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, maths, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, physics, climate science, game theory and, of course, macroeconomics.
24 October 2018