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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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Mar 14, 20184 min read
Ergodicity: Rebuild Macro’s Instability Workshop Summary
Roger Farmer - Last Thursday on March 8 2018, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and I held the first meeting of the Rebuilding Macroeconomics proje...
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Mar 12, 20184 min read
Volatility is Back!
Stefan Lenis - Since the beginning of this year, we have experienced what some market commentators have called the “return of volatili...
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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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Feb 14, 20183 min read
Rebuild Macro’s Instability Hub: An Introduction
Roger Farmer – Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and I are pleased to be leading a research hub devoted to understanding why economies...
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Dec 20, 20174 min read
Macroeconomics with Human Actors?
David Tuckett – In my last blog, I wrote about how economic theory needs to be ecologically valid – meaning that it needs to model agents...
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Nov 16, 20173 min read
Making Sense of Chaos with the Windy-Boat
Roger Farmer – Last week my Rebuild Macro colleague Doyne Farmer, asked “Are Business Cycles Chaotic?” Doyne’s answer is....
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Nov 2, 20174 min read
Are business cycles chaotic? (part I)
J. Doyne Farmer – What causes business cycles? Mainstream macroeconomics says the primary cause are “shocks”.
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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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