Kate Bayliss, Ben Bowles and Elisa Van Waeyenberge Successive governments have attached considerable weight to infrastructure spending....

by Carlo D’Ippoliti Other social scientists accuse economists of picturing human beings as anti-social egoistic individuals – and of...

Research evaluation exercises and metrics are an inherent part of academic life. But how do they affect individual research decisions, as...

by Beatrice Cherrier In 2012, Andrew Haldane, who was to become Bank of England chief economist two years later, wrote a VoxEu column...

by Ekaterina Svetlova The Economist (14 November 2020) highlighted the, sometimes tetchy, debate between epidemiologists and economists...

If we were to choose two words to summarise, they would be ‘social’ and ‘interaction’ between people...

by Yvan Russell - Biologists define “social” and “cooperation” with a very wide ambit: “social” refers to organisms that clump together...

Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Jo Michell - we draw on under-exploited insights from Minsky to provide an analysis of evolutionary Macro

Danielle Guizzo & James Walker -- It is often said that academics and university research managers are obsessed with research rankings.

Johnna Montgomerie and Ryan Davey - Almost all of us live in a household. Yet there is surprisingly little agreement about what ...

Carlo D'Ippoliti - Citations are the new metric in the marketplace of economic ideas. They are part of parcel of meeting the requirements...

Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Benjamin Bowles & Kate Bayliss - The UK’s infrastructure needs investment. From potholes to HS2...

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

Beatrice Cherrier - Economists have recently exhibited considerable anxiety regarding their influence on policy-makers and citiz...

Matthias Thiemann What is the role of applied economists working in central banks and international organizations?

Professor Steve Keen - With the simple insight that “labour without energy is a corpse, and capital without energy is a sculpture...

Maxim Gusev and Dimitri Kroujiline - Macroeconomic models rarely make explicit how people actually interact. When this

Daniela Gabor, Yannis Dafermos, Jo Michell - How did shadow banking contribute to the global financial crisis? Is a stable shadow ban...

Carolina Alves - Some may think that the gender balance in economics is fine and gradually improving. Yet the proportion of women in eco

Carolina Alves & Gavin Hassall - Rebuilding Macroeconomics (RM) hosted its Women in Economics event at NIESR recently, as part of the...