What are the Reasons for the Lack of Overall Convergence in the EU? A Structuralist View
by Claudius Gräbner and Jakob Hafele With its recently proposed €750bn recovery and resilience facility the EU aims to tackle the adverse...
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Feb 11, 20214 min read
What You Exported Matters: Persistence in Productive Capabilities across Two Eras of Globalization
Isabella Weber, Tom Westland and Maya McCollum “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the...
Jan 25, 20214 min read
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...
Oct 20, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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...
Aug 24, 20203 min read
Globalisation and Rent Sharing
Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin & David Soskice -- Rising wage dispersion, a falling labour share of income and stagnating real wages have...
Jan 31, 20205 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..
Oct 23, 20193 min read
North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
Jul 3, 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
May 7, 20194 min read
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...
Apr 15, 20194 min read
Why Europe is Drifting Apart and What to do About it
Claudius Gräbner - The Eurozone, once celebrated as a ‘convergence mechanism’, has instead experienced economic
Apr 8, 20193 min read
How Do We Come to Empathise With Distant Others?
Alice Evans - How do we come to empathise with distant others: not just feel sorrow for their suffering...
Apr 1, 20193 min read
Blowback
Henrietta Moore - The CIA use the term “blowback” to refer to the unintended consequences of an operation
Jan 28, 20193 min read
Globalisation and Labour Share
Pawel Bukowski - According to the Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014) the global labour share of output fell from 65% in 1980 to 59% in 2012.
Jan 7, 20193 min read
What Drives Specialisation?
Isabella Weber - Globalisation has coincided with specialisation and wealth accumulation on unprecedented scales. By bringing togethe...
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...
Jun 4, 20184 min read
The Institutions of Globalisation: Globalisation Hub Workshop Summary
Stephen Kinsella & Gavin Hassall – Globalisation is the increased interconnection of markets for goods, services, capital, labour and id...
Mar 6, 20184 min read
How to End Poverty with Globalisation
Stephen Kinsella & Gavin Hassall – Economists have been thinking about the economics of trade for at least two centuries. In fact, it’s...
Dec 13, 20175 min read
Can Globalisation Benefit All?
Stephen Kinsella - If we are to rebuild macroeconomics, we must understand one of the fundamental forces shaping our economies.
Oct 10, 20173 min read
Public Discussion: Can Globalisation Benefit Everyone?
Angus Armstrong - On 27th September, Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first Discovery Meeting at The Lowry in Salford, near Manc...
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