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Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.


Imagining a Resilient Future of Equity Finance
Richard Bronk - The current crisis highlights the need for corporate resilience in the face of unpredictable threats to supply and demand...
Apr 17, 20204 min read


Equity Finance: Matching Liability to Power
by Charles Goodhart and Rosa Lastra - The Covid 19 pandemic has once again illustrated the dangers of excessive debt ratios...
Apr 9, 20204 min read


Managing Evolution in Response to the Pandemic and Beyond
by David Sloan Wilson - People use words such as “evolve” and “adapt” all the time to express their need for positive change, but seldom...
Apr 8, 20202 min read


How Directed are Decentralised Economies?
R.S. MacKay, S. Johnson, and B. Sansom -- Many economic relationships have a direction: the flow of goods and services from suppliers to ...
Feb 27, 20205 min read


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.
Feb 19, 20204 min read


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..
Jan 31, 20205 min read


Macroeconomic Fluctuations as Emergent Behaviour
by Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia and Franck Portier -- We, as human beings, like ups and downs on a roller coaster, but only on a roller coaste
Jan 27, 20202 min read


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 ...
Jan 8, 20203 min read


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...
Dec 17, 20193 min read


Stock Markets and the Economy
Michael Hatcher - A major challange for macroeconomics is to model the linkages between financal markets and the economy...
Dec 11, 20194 min read


Patterns in the Noise in Financial Markets: Where do they come from?
by Nick Chater, Adam Sanborn, Zhu Jianqiao & Jake Spicer - Financial markets are, of course, notable for their unpredictability...
Nov 29, 20194 min read


Beyond the Green Growth Hype
Marion Dumas - Businesses that innovate to produce more ecological products generally see an increase in their revenue, but why?...
Nov 21, 20193 min read


Beyond Individualism
David Sloan Wilson - The hardest thing for a fish to see is water. This adage aptly expresses the difficulty we have understanding our own..
Nov 1, 20195 min read


North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
Oct 23, 20193 min read


What can the Daily Mail teach us about the crisis of capitalism?
Tony Curzon Price, Gavin Hassall, Jeremy Davies and James Couper -The "crisis of capitalism" is now a term heard in the political mainstream
Oct 16, 20195 min read


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 9, 20193 min read


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?
Oct 3, 20193 min read


New Foundations for Macroeconomics
David Sloan Wilson - Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have...
Jul 29, 20193 min read


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 24, 20193 min read


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...
Jul 11, 20193 min read


Can Artificial Intelligence be used to Integrate Money Creation into Macroeconomics?
Mingli Chen, Andreas Joseph*, Michael Kumhof* & Aruhan Shi - In our project for Rebuilding Macroeconomics, we bring together two princ...
Jul 9, 20194 min read


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
Jul 4, 20193 min read


Does Inequality Stoke Support for Nationalism?
Steven Bosworth - It can have escaped no one that the political institutions in western democracies are going through
Jul 3, 20193 min read


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
Jul 2, 20194 min read
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