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Rebuilding Macroeconomics sees the economy as a living system for creating and using knowledge, often embedded in goods and services. Our emphasis on knowledge makes clear that we live in a world of fundamental uncertainty. Yet far from being powerless to act, it is our ability to harness uncertainty which makes us such a resourceful species.

This shift in emphasis to knowledge creation allows us to return to the time-honoured big macroeconomic questions of creativity, agency, sustainability, coordination and institutions.

Rebuilding Macroeconomics is part of the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP)University College London (UCL). We have a new PhD scheme in Social Macroeconomics and teach an MSc module on the New Economics of Prosperity at IGP.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Creativity and Innovation
    Creativity and Innovation
    Date TBC
    Location TBC
    Date TBC
    Location TBC
    “Our robust finding is that research productivity is falling sharply everywhere we look” (Bloom et al., 2020) is one explanation for the productivity slowdown. This event will look at the reasons why, the nature of creativity and what conditions are most conducive to greater creativity.
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RESEARCH

LATEST BLOGS

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

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Forecasting and Policy When “We Simply Do Not Know”

Angus Armstrong, William Hynes, Alan Kirman

January 30, 2025

Working Paper No 70

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Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics II: Core Themes of the Multilevel Paradigm

Dennis J. Snower and David Sloan Wilson

December 16, 2024

Working Paper No 69

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The Dark Side of Escaping the Middle-Income Trap:
A SAGE Study of Asian High-Income Countries

Fernanda Ortega and Dennis J. Snower

December 05, 2024

Working Paper No 68

PAST EVENTS

  • Green Industrial Policies
    Green Industrial Policies
    Fri 20 Sept
    UCL & Online
    20 Sept 2024, 14:00 – 15:30
    UCL & Online
    This inter-disciplinary seminar in association with the World Bank, Coalition for Capacity on Climate Action (C3A) - https://www.climatecapacitycoalition.org/en - will debate the key components of a successful green industrial strategy.
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  • Book launch: Making Sense of Chaos by J. Doyne Farmer
    Book launch: Making Sense of Chaos by J. Doyne Farmer
    12 Jun 2024, 17:00 – 18:20 BST
    UCL & Online
    This event celebrates the launch of Professor J. Doyne Farmer's new book, Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
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  • A New Economics for Economic Security
    A New Economics for Economic Security
    03 Jun 2024, 14:00 – 15:30 BST
    Zoom Webinar
    Speakers included Benedetta Berti (NATO), Elizabeth Baltzan (Office of the United States Trade Representative), David Adler (American Affairs) and Brian Kettenring (The Global Fund for a New Economy). The event was part of IGPs 10th year anniversary.
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  • Polycrises and Policy Frameworks
    Polycrises and Policy Frameworks
    Thu 21 Mar
    LT 1.02 Malet Place Engineering Building
    21 Mar 2024, 13:00 – 16:00 GMT
    LT 1.02 Malet Place Engineering Building, 2 Malet Pl, London WC1E 7JE, UK
    This conference explored and discussed the implications of multiple overlapping crises for policy frameworks with a keynote from Professor Michael Muthukrishna (LSE), author of 'A Theory of Everyone'. The conference was part of IGPs 10th year anniversary.
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  • ABM for Macroeconomics
    ABM for Macroeconomics
    Tue 13 Jun
    Bank of England, Moorgate Auditorium
    13 Jun 2023, 14:00 – 17:30
    Bank of England, Moorgate Auditorium
    We co-hosted an event about Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) with the Bank of England and Professor Giovanni Dosi on 13 June in London. The event was tailored to the needs of policy-makers and policy economists.
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  • Festschrift for Alan Kirman
    Festschrift for Alan Kirman
    16-17 March 2023
    Bank of England, Moorgate Auditorium
    16-17 March 2023
    Bank of England, Moorgate Auditorium, 20 Moorgate, London EC2R 6DA, UK
    We hosted a Festschrift to celebrate the career and research of Professor Alan Kirman on 16-17 March 2023 in London. Keynote speakers included Sam Bowles, Jim Heckman, Lucrezia Reichlin and Joe Stiglitz.
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