Nick Chater - Noise is one of the most striking and ubiquitous properties of the human brain. Each individual brain cell, or neuron,

Michael Hatcher - A key distinction between economies and physical systems, like the weather, is that economies consist of individuals who

The psychological and behavioural economics literatures have had a transformative impact on how we understand people’s financial and persona

Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its first annual conference at HM Treasury, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, maths, neur...

David Tuckett - Can we develop a reliable way to assess how the role of changing narratives influences the macroeconomy?

Roger Farmer - Last Thursday on March 8 2018, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and I held the first meeting of the Rebuilding Macroeconomics proje...

Stefan Lenis - Since the beginning of this year, we have experienced what some market commentators have called the “return of volatili...

David Orrell – In 2017, when the ESRC announced that it was setting up a network of experts from different disciplines to “revolutionise”...

Roger Farmer – Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and I are pleased to be leading a research hub devoted to understanding why economies...

David Tuckett – In my last blog, I wrote about how economic theory needs to be ecologically valid – meaning that it needs to model agents...

Roger Farmer – Last week my Rebuild Macro colleague Doyne Farmer, asked “Are Business Cycles Chaotic?” Doyne’s answer is....

J. Doyne Farmer – What causes business cycles? Mainstream macroeconomics says the primary cause are “shocks”.

David Tuckket - My ideas come from a mix of old fashioned economics, sociology, psychoanalysis and two streams of empirical research...

Roger Farmer - Like most academics, I spend much of my time asking for money from research councils.