Green Product Differentiation and Innovation in the Transition to a Clean Economy
by Marion Dumas Does the environmental concern of consumers stimulate firms to innovate and offer more sustainable products? Once...
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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
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...
- 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...
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
Integrating Macroeconomics and Ecology via Energy and the Laws of Thermodynamics
by Steve Keen One of the glaring weaknesses of economic models of production, from all schools of economic thought, is the absence of any...
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
Modelling Transition Risk
by Tim Jackson The world is now hotter than at any time in the last 12,000 years. The year 2020 tied with 2016 for the dubious honour of...
- 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...
- 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
- Nov 21, 2019
- 3 min
Beyond the Green Growth Hype
Marion Dumas - Businesses that innovate to produce more ecological products generally see an increase in their revenue, but why?...
- Jul 2, 2019
- 4 min
A Shift in Temperature: The Financial Challenge of a Zero-Carbon Economy
Tim Jackson and Andrew Jackson - The most fundamental challenge to the finance sector that we face is the need to support the
- 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...
- Feb 22, 2019
- 4 min
When Does One of the Central Ideas in Economic Theory Work?
Marco Pangallo, Torsten Heinrich, J Doyne Farmer - The concept of equilibrium is central to economics. It is one of the core assumptions...
- 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...
- Dec 22, 2017
- 4 min
How can we achieve a sustainable economy?
Ida Sognnaes -How can we achieve a sustainable economy? This was the question posed at Rebuilding Macroeconomics Sustainability hub’s...
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