Everything Flows
The concept of stocks and flows feels like a rare fragment of economic solidity in a sea of conceptual turbulence. Things flow, and these...
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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
- Mar 25, 2021
- 4 min
Understanding 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, 2021
- 3 min
How a Zero-Sum View of the World may be Hurting our Economies, our Democracies and our Health
by 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, 2021
- 2 min
MacroSocial Feedback Effects – Firm Structure and Political Economy Consequences
by Steven Bosworth It is a strange time to be writing this. Joe Biden’s supporters are eagerly awaiting his imminent declaration as...
- Mar 11, 2021
- 5 min
Managing Cultural Evolution in Rugged Adaptive Landscapes
by David Sloan Wilson One of the most venerable visual metaphors of evolutionary theory is the multi-peaked adaptive landscape, where...
- 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...
- Jan 18, 2021
- 4 min
If the North is Levelled Up the Same Way the South Opened the Gap, Don’t Expect Well-Being to Rise
By Stephen Fisher, Martha Kirby and Eilidh Macfarlane The government have pledged to “level up all parts of the United Kingdom,” because,...
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
Decentralised Reciprocity
by Colin Mayer The objective behind this programme of research was to understand the role that local and decentralized financial systems...
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Putting in Effort for the Benefit of All: The Role of Reward and Effort Requirements
by Magda Osman It is probably fair to say that behaving in ways that are societally responsible and developing practices that are...
- Dec 11, 2020
- 4 min
UK Regional and Urban Inequalities
by Philip McCann This research programme in the Social Macro hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics aims to improve our understanding of the...
- 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...
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4 min
Understanding Vocational/Technical Pathways to Inform Policy at the Local Level
Jo Blanden and Sandra McNally - This project will be helpful for policy makers to improve the operation of vocational training
- 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 ...
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
- Oct 9, 2019
- 3 min
Decentralised Reciprocity
Colin Mayer & Philip McCann - The UK is one of the most centralised, top-down and space-blind governance systems in the industrialised world
- Oct 3, 2019
- 3 min
Can 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, 2019
- 3 min
New Foundations for Macroeconomics
David Sloan Wilson - Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have...
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
The 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, 2019
- 3 min
What 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