Apr 11, 20213 minEverything FlowsThe concept of stocks and flows feels like a rare fragment of economic solidity in a sea of conceptual turbulence. Things flow, and these...
Mar 25, 20214 minUnderstanding Educational Progression at the Local Level: Portsmouth, The Northern City on the South Coast by Jo Blanden, Héctor Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura In Boris Johnson’s...
Mar 24, 20213 minHow a Zero-Sum View of the World may be Hurting our Economies, our Democracies and our Healthby Patricia Andrews Fearon & David Good Back in 2004, game designer Matt Leacock and his wife had a problem. As much as they enjoyed...
Mar 19, 20212 minMacroSocial Feedback Effects – Firm Structure and Political Economy Consequencesby Steven Bosworth It is a strange time to be writing this. Joe Biden’s supporters are eagerly awaiting his imminent declaration as...
Mar 11, 20215 minManaging Cultural Evolution in Rugged Adaptive Landscapesby David Sloan Wilson One of the most venerable visual metaphors of evolutionary theory is the multi-peaked adaptive landscape, where...
Jan 25, 20214 minDeveloping an Economy of Belongingby Henrietta Moore The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the systemic fissures and failures of the social fabric through economic...
Jan 18, 20214 minIf the North is Levelled Up the Same Way the South Opened the Gap, Don’t Expect Well-Being to RiseBy Stephen Fisher, Martha Kirby and Eilidh Macfarlane The government have pledged to “level up all parts of the United Kingdom,” because,...
Jan 18, 20213 minDecentralised Reciprocityby Colin Mayer The objective behind this programme of research was to understand the role that local and decentralized financial systems...
Jan 14, 20213 minPutting in Effort for the Benefit of All: The Role of Reward and Effort Requirementsby Magda Osman It is probably fair to say that behaving in ways that are societally responsible and developing practices that are...
Dec 11, 20204 minUK Regional and Urban Inequalitiesby Philip McCann This research programme in the Social Macro hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics aims to improve our understanding of the...
Oct 20, 20205 minThird Annual Conference: Understanding Social MacroeconomicsIf we were to choose two words to summarise, they would be ‘social’ and ‘interaction’ between people...
Sep 7, 20204 minOur prehistoric brain in the laboratory: encouraging cooperation through identity-biasby Yvan Russell - Biologists define “social” and “cooperation” with a very wide ambit: “social” refers to organisms that clump together...
Apr 30, 20204 minUnderstanding Vocational/Technical Pathways to Inform Policy at the Local LevelJo Blanden and Sandra McNally - This project will be helpful for policy makers to improve the operation of vocational training
Jan 8, 20203 minWhy Households Matter for Understanding the MacroeconomyJohnna Montgomerie and Ryan Davey - Almost all of us live in a household. Yet there is surprisingly little agreement about what ...
Oct 23, 20193 minNorth and South: Why so Divided?Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
Oct 9, 20193 minDecentralised ReciprocityColin Mayer & Philip McCann - The UK is one of the most centralised, top-down and space-blind governance systems in the industrialised world
Oct 3, 20193 minCan Social Control Make Us Stop Climate Change?Magda Osman & Agata Ryterska - How can people be encouraged to put in more effort for a common good like fighting climate change?
Jul 29, 20193 minNew Foundations for MacroeconomicsDavid Sloan Wilson - Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have...
Jul 24, 20193 minThe Role of Banks: What Can We Learn from Behavioural Macroeconomics?Yuemei Ji & Paul De Grauwe - What were the causes of the global financial crisis in 2007-08? What economic policies should economists
Jul 4, 20193 minWhat if We’re Playing the Wrong Game?David Good and Patricia Andrews Fearon - Since von Neumann and Morgenstern’s seminal work Theory of Games and Economic Behavior