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Welcome to the Rebuild Macro Blog
Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Noisy Brains & Unsettled Markets
Nick Chater - Noise is one of the most striking and ubiquitous properties of the human brain. Each individual brain cell, or neuron,
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Nov 15, 20184 min read
Do Expectations Drive Big Events?
Michael Hatcher - A key distinction between economies and physical systems, like the weather, is that economies consist of individuals who
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Nov 13, 20184 min read
Central Banking: When Communication is the Policy
The psychological and behavioural economics literatures have had a transformative impact on how we understand people’s financial and persona
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Oct 24, 20185 min read
Bringing Psychology & Social Sciences into Macroeconomics: Summary
Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first annual conference at HM Treasury, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, maths, neur...
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Jun 17, 20183 min read
What do Economic Agents Know?
David Tuckett - Can we develop a reliable way to assess how the role of changing narratives influences the macroeconomy?
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Apr 18, 20185 min read
Where are Women in Macroeconomic Models?
Özlem Onaran - In a recent article in the Financial Times, Gemma Tetlow asked “Where are all the female economists?”
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Feb 23, 20184 min read
Of Minds & Money
David Orrell – In 2017, when the ESRC announced that it was setting up a network of experts from different disciplines to “revolutionise”...
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Jan 11, 20184 min read
A Response to ‘Why Does Economics Get so Much Stick?’
Sheila Dow - Simon Wren-Lewis’s misunderstanding of my argument (The culture of expertise in macroeconomics) shows where
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Jan 8, 20184 min read
Culture of Expertise in Macroeconomics
Sheila Dow - Why has macroeconomics been dominated by a particular approach for so long? Granted, mainstream macroeconomics has continued to
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Dec 11, 20174 min read
Do Institutional Networks Support a Monoculture in Macroeconomics?
Richard Bronk – As Mark Anthony might have said, I come to praise the standard economic paradigm and academic or practitioner networks...
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Dec 1, 20176 min read
How do Macroeconomics Ideas Become Dominant?
Beatrice Cherrier -One concealed yet problematic feature of the booming “current state of macro” genre is the systematic reliance on inco...
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Nov 24, 20174 min read
Do we have confidence in our economic institutions?
Jack Wright - This is the question a collection of economics-related academics and representatives from charities, think tanks, government a
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Oct 25, 20174 min read
Do Macroeconomists have Morals?
Laura Bear - As an anthropologist among the tribe of macroeconomists in the Rebuilding Macroeconomics network I have been impressed...
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Oct 17, 20175 min read
Getting Real About Macro
David Tuckket - My ideas come from a mix of old fashioned economics, sociology, psychoanalysis and two streams of empirical research...
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Oct 2, 201712 min read
Refereeing: Do we have Confidence in Economic Institutions?
Roger Farmer - Like most academics, I spend much of my time asking for money from research councils.
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