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Apr 11, 20214 min read

Green Product Differentiation and Innovation in the Transition to a Clean Economy

by Marion Dumas Does the environmental concern of consumers stimulate firms to innovate and offer more sustainable products? Once...

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Apr 11, 20213 min read

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...

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Feb 25, 20214 min read

Integrating Macroeconomics and Ecology via Energy and the Laws of Thermodynamics

by Steve Keen One of the glaring weaknesses of economic models of production, from all schools of economic thought, is the absence of any...

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Feb 10, 20214 min read

Modelling Transition Risk

by Tim Jackson The world is now hotter than at any time in the last 12,000 years. The year 2020 tied with 2016 for the dubious honour of...

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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...

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Jul 30, 20203 min read

Institutional Supercycles: An Evolutionary Macro-Finance Approach

Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Jo Michell - we draw on under-exploited insights from Minsky to provide an analysis of evolutionary Macro

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Nov 21, 20193 min read

Beyond the Green Growth Hype

Marion Dumas - Businesses that innovate to produce more ecological products generally see an increase in their revenue, but why?...

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Jul 2, 20194 min read

A Shift in Temperature: The Financial Challenge of a Zero-Carbon Economy

Tim Jackson and Andrew Jackson - The most fundamental challenge to the finance sector that we face is the need to support the

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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...

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Feb 22, 20194 min read

When Does One of the Central Ideas in Economic Theory Work?

Marco Pangallo, Torsten Heinrich, J Doyne Farmer - The concept of equilibrium is central to economics. It is one of the core assumptions...

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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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Dec 22, 20174 min read

How can we achieve a sustainable economy?

Ida Sognnaes -How can we achieve a sustainable economy? This was the question posed at Rebuilding Macroeconomics Sustainability hub’s...

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