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...

Nicholas Beale, Richard Gunton, Sam Johnson, Marcus Miller, Bazil Sansom, Robert MacKay Two things we think are crystal clear Especially...

by Henrietta Moore The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the systemic fissures and failures of the social fabric through economic...

by Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia and Franck Portier Flocking birds is a famous natural life example of emergent phenomena —i.e. aggregate...

By Stephen Fisher, Martha Kirby and Eilidh Macfarlane The government have pledged to “level up all parts of the United Kingdom,” because,...

by Colin Mayer The objective behind this programme of research was to understand the role that local and decentralized financial systems...

by Magda Osman It is probably fair to say that behaving in ways that are societally responsible and developing practices that are...

by Ekaterina Svetlova The Economist (14 November 2020) highlighted the, sometimes tetchy, debate between epidemiologists and economists...

by Philip McCann This research programme in the Social Macro hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics aims to improve our understanding of the...

If we were to choose two words to summarise, they would be ‘social’ and ‘interaction’ between people...

by Alice Evans Many activists are caught in a despondency trap (working paper here). Never seeing radical reform, they lower their...

by Yvan Russell - Biologists define “social” and “cooperation” with a very wide ambit: “social” refers to organisms that clump together...

by Fabian Schuppert -- The emergence of COVID19 in small corner of our complex global food network and transmitted via human contamination..

Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin & David Soskice -- Rising wage dispersion, a falling labour share of income and stagnating real wages have...

Yuemei Ji & Paul De Grauwe - A number of pro-cyclical features in the behaviour of banks if left unchecked can destabilize the economy...

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

by David Tuckett, Douglas Holmes, Alice Pearson and Greame Chaplin - Probability-based models lead to to ignore radical uncertainty and ...

by A. Kleinnijenhuis, P. Nahai-Williamson, T. Wetzer & D. Farmer - seemingly localised shocks can amplify systemic importance...

Ivan Boldyrev - Policy makers’ response to COVID-19 shows how much they can depend on a scientific advice...

Roger Farmer - Exploiting the properties of non-ergodic random variables to understand how people behave when the future cannot be predicted

by Webb Keane - The trolley problem describes various scenarios in which you must choose between two, and only two, courses of action...

Jo Blanden and Sandra McNally - This project will be helpful for policy makers to improve the operation of vocational training

by David Tuckett et al. -- To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision-makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis

by Dennis J. Snower, Co-leader of Social Macroeconomics Hub and President of the Global Solutions Summit We are currently in the midst of...