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....
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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
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...
- Apr 29, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Dec 21, 2020
- 4 min
Cultures of Model Use
by Ekaterina Svetlova The Economist (14 November 2020) highlighted the, sometimes tetchy, debate between epidemiologists and economists...
- Oct 20, 2020
- 5 min
Third Annual Conference: Understanding Social Macroeconomics
If we were to choose two words to summarise, they would be ‘social’ and ‘interaction’ between people...
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
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...
- Jul 30, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Feb 19, 2020
- 4 min
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.
- Jan 8, 2020
- 3 min
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 ...
- Dec 17, 2019
- 3 min
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...
- Jul 11, 2019
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 26, 2019
- 4 min
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
- May 28, 2019
- 3 min
Do Central Bankers use Economic Analysis?
Beatrice Cherrier - Economists have recently exhibited considerable anxiety regarding their influence on policy-makers and citiz...
- May 13, 2019
- 3 min
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 7, 2019
- 4 min
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...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
Including Human Interaction in Macroeconomics
Maxim Gusev and Dimitri Kroujiline - Macroeconomic models rarely make explicit how people actually interact. When this
- Jan 22, 2019
- 3 min
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...
- Dec 19, 2018
- 4 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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