What are the Reasons for the Lack of Overall Convergence in the EU? A Structuralist View
by Claudius Gräbner and Jakob Hafele With its recently proposed €750bn recovery and resilience facility the EU aims to tackle the adverse...
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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
What You Exported Matters: Persistence in Productive Capabilities across Two Eras of Globalization
Isabella Weber, Tom Westland and Maya McCollum “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the...
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
Developing an Economy of Belonging
by Henrietta Moore The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the systemic fissures and failures of the social fabric through economic...
- 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...
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
Globalisation and Rent Sharing
Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin & David Soskice -- Rising wage dispersion, a falling labour share of income and stagnating real wages have...
- Jan 31, 2020
- 5 min
Globalisation and Rent Sharing
Steve Machin & Pawel Bukowsky -- Do workers benefit from the firm’s success? This is a highly relevant macroeconomic question in our world..
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
Does Inequality Stoke Support for Nationalism?
Steven Bosworth - It can have escaped no one that the political institutions in western democracies are going through
- 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...
- Apr 15, 2019
- 4 min
Why Europe is Drifting Apart and What to do About it
Claudius Gräbner - The Eurozone, once celebrated as a ‘convergence mechanism’, has instead experienced economic
- Apr 8, 2019
- 3 min
How Do We Come to Empathise With Distant Others?
Alice Evans - How do we come to empathise with distant others: not just feel sorrow for their suffering...
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
Blowback
Henrietta Moore - The CIA use the term “blowback” to refer to the unintended consequences of an operation
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
Globalisation and Labour Share
Pawel Bukowski - According to the Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014) the global labour share of output fell from 65% in 1980 to 59% in 2012.
- Jan 7, 2019
- 3 min
What Drives Specialisation?
Isabella Weber - Globalisation has coincided with specialisation and wealth accumulation on unprecedented scales. By bringing togethe...
- Oct 24, 2018
- 5 min
Bringing Psychology & Social Sciences into Macroeconomics: Summary
Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first annual conference at HM Treasury, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, maths, neur...
- Jun 4, 2018
- 4 min
The Institutions of Globalisation: Globalisation Hub Workshop Summary
Stephen Kinsella & Gavin Hassall – Globalisation is the increased interconnection of markets for goods, services, capital, labour and id...
- Mar 6, 2018
- 4 min
How to End Poverty with Globalisation
Stephen Kinsella & Gavin Hassall – Economists have been thinking about the economics of trade for at least two centuries. In fact, it’s...
- Dec 13, 2017
- 5 min
Can Globalisation Benefit All?
Stephen Kinsella - If we are to rebuild macroeconomics, we must understand one of the fundamental forces shaping our economies.
- Oct 10, 2017
- 3 min
Public Discussion: Can Globalisation Benefit Everyone?
Angus Armstrong - On 27th September, Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first Discovery Meeting at The Lowry in Salford, near Manc...
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