Everything Flows
The concept of stocks and flows feels like a rare fragment of economic solidity in a sea of conceptual turbulence. Things flow, and these...
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Mar 25, 20214 min read
Understanding Educational Progression at the Local Level:
Portsmouth, The Northern City on the South Coast by Jo Blanden, Héctor Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura In Boris Johnson’s...
Mar 24, 20213 min read
How a Zero-Sum View of the World may be Hurting our Economies, our Democracies and our Health
by Patricia Andrews Fearon & David Good Back in 2004, game designer Matt Leacock and his wife had a problem. As much as they enjoyed...
Mar 19, 20212 min read
MacroSocial Feedback Effects – Firm Structure and Political Economy Consequences
by Steven Bosworth It is a strange time to be writing this. Joe Biden’s supporters are eagerly awaiting his imminent declaration as...
Mar 11, 20215 min read
Managing Cultural Evolution in Rugged Adaptive Landscapes
by David Sloan Wilson One of the most venerable visual metaphors of evolutionary theory is the multi-peaked adaptive landscape, where...
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...
Jan 18, 20214 min read
If the North is Levelled Up the Same Way the South Opened the Gap, Don’t Expect Well-Being to Rise
By Stephen Fisher, Martha Kirby and Eilidh Macfarlane The government have pledged to “level up all parts of the United Kingdom,” because,...
Jan 18, 20213 min read
Decentralised Reciprocity
by Colin Mayer The objective behind this programme of research was to understand the role that local and decentralized financial systems...
Jan 14, 20213 min read
Putting in Effort for the Benefit of All: The Role of Reward and Effort Requirements
by Magda Osman It is probably fair to say that behaving in ways that are societally responsible and developing practices that are...
Dec 11, 20204 min read
UK Regional and Urban Inequalities
by Philip McCann This research programme in the Social Macro hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics aims to improve our understanding of the...
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...
Apr 30, 20204 min read
Understanding Vocational/Technical Pathways to Inform Policy at the Local Level
Jo Blanden and Sandra McNally - This project will be helpful for policy makers to improve the operation of vocational training
Jan 8, 20203 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 ...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
Oct 9, 20193 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 3, 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?
Jul 29, 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 24, 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 4, 20193 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
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