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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
Building Back Better”: Economic Boost or Private Profiteering?
Kate Bayliss, Ben Bowles and Elisa Van Waeyenberge Successive governments have attached considerable weight to infrastructure spending....
May 13, 20214 min read
Economists Work in Communities, and this Shapes the Incentives for Research
by Carlo D’Ippoliti Other social scientists accuse economists of picturing human beings as anti-social egoistic individuals – and of...
May 5, 20213 min read
The REF and UK Academic Macroeconomics: Friends or Foes?
Research evaluation exercises and metrics are an inherent part of academic life. But how do they affect individual research decisions, as...
Apr 29, 20215 min read
Excavating the Academia-Policy pipeline: the history of economic research at the Bank of England
by Beatrice Cherrier In 2012, Andrew Haldane, who was to become Bank of England chief economist two years later, wrote a VoxEu column...
Feb 25, 20214 min read
Cultures of Model Use
by Ekaterina Svetlova The Economist (14 November 2020) highlighted the, sometimes tetchy, debate between epidemiologists and economists...
Dec 21, 20204 min read
Third Annual Conference: Understanding Social Macroeconomics
If we were to choose two words to summarise, they would be ‘social’ and ‘interaction’ between people...
Oct 20, 20205 min read
Our prehistoric brain in the laboratory: encouraging cooperation through identity-bias
by Yvan Russell - Biologists define “social” and “cooperation” with a very wide ambit: “social” refers to organisms that clump together...
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Institutional Supercycles: An Evolutionary Macro-Finance Approach
Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Jo Michell - we draw on under-exploited insights from Minsky to provide an analysis of evolutionary Macro
Jul 30, 20203 min read
The Inexact Science of Research Assessments and Why Macroeconomics Should Worry About It
Danielle Guizzo & James Walker -- It is often said that academics and university research managers are obsessed with research rankings.
Feb 19, 20204 min read
Why Households Matter for Understanding the Macroeconomy
Johnna Montgomerie and Ryan Davey - Almost all of us live in a household. Yet there is surprisingly little agreement about what ...
Jan 8, 20203 min read
A Marketplace of Economic Ideas
Carlo D'Ippoliti - Citations are the new metric in the marketplace of economic ideas. They are part of parcel of meeting the requirements...
Dec 17, 20193 min read
So. Farewell then PFI, what next for infrastructure finance?
Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Benjamin Bowles & Kate Bayliss - The UK’s infrastructure needs investment. From potholes to HS2...
Jul 11, 20193 min read
What Is Money Today? Legal and Economic Perspectives
Rosa Lastra, Jason Grant Allen and Michael Kumhof - Money today is different to money even a decade ago. The use of cash is declining and m
Jun 26, 20194 min read
Do Central Bankers use Economic Analysis?
Beatrice Cherrier - Economists have recently exhibited considerable anxiety regarding their influence on policy-makers and citiz...
May 28, 20193 min read
Who Leads the Change in Macro-Prudential Thinking?
Matthias Thiemann
What is the role of applied economists working in central banks and international organizations?
May 13, 20193 min read
Labour without energy is a corpse; capital without energy is a sculpture
Professor Steve Keen - With the simple insight that “labour without energy is a corpse, and capital without energy is a sculpture...
May 7, 20194 min read
Including Human Interaction in Macroeconomics
Maxim Gusev and Dimitri Kroujiline - Macroeconomic models rarely make explicit how people actually interact. When this
Mar 25, 20193 min read
Minsky Was a Shadow Banker
Daniela Gabor, Yannis Dafermos, Jo Michell - How did shadow banking contribute to the global financial crisis? Is a stable shadow ban...
Jan 22, 20193 min read
Women in Economics: Why it Matters – Part II
Carolina Alves - Some may think that the gender balance in economics is fine and gradually improving. Yet the proportion of women in eco
Dec 19, 20184 min read
Women in Economics: Why it Matters – Part I
Carolina Alves & Gavin Hassall - Rebuilding Macroeconomics (RM) hosted its Women in Economics event at NIESR recently, as part of the...
Dec 19, 20183 min read
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