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Stories and articles made for people who want to rebuild.


Imagining a Resilient Future of Equity Finance
Richard Bronk - The current crisis highlights the need for corporate resilience in the face of unpredictable threats to supply and demand...
Apr 17, 20204 min read
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Equity Finance: Matching Liability to Power
by Charles Goodhart and Rosa Lastra - The Covid 19 pandemic has once again illustrated the dangers of excessive debt ratios...
Apr 9, 20204 min read
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Managing Evolution in Response to the Pandemic and Beyond
by David Sloan Wilson - People use words such as “evolve” and “adapt” all the time to express their need for positive change, but seldom...
Apr 8, 20202 min read
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How Directed are Decentralised Economies?
R.S. MacKay, S. Johnson, and B. Sansom -- Many economic relationships have a direction: the flow of goods and services from suppliers to ...
Feb 27, 20205 min read
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The Inexact Science of Research Assessments and Why Macroeconomics Should Worry About It
Danielle Guizzo & James Walker -- It is often said that academics and university research managers are obsessed with research rankings.
Feb 19, 20204 min read
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Globalisation and Rent Sharing
Steve Machin & Pawel Bukowsky -- Do workers benefit from the firm’s success? This is a highly relevant macroeconomic question in our world..
Jan 31, 20205 min read
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Macroeconomic Fluctuations as Emergent Behaviour
by Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia and Franck Portier -- We, as human beings, like ups and downs on a roller coaster, but only on a roller coaste
Jan 27, 20202 min read
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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 ...
Jan 8, 20203 min read
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A Marketplace of Economic Ideas
Carlo D'Ippoliti - Citations are the new metric in the marketplace of economic ideas. They are part of parcel of meeting the requirements...
Dec 17, 20193 min read
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Stock Markets and the Economy
Michael Hatcher - A major challange for macroeconomics is to model the linkages between financal markets and the economy...
Dec 11, 20194 min read
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Patterns in the Noise in Financial Markets: Where do they come from?
by Nick Chater, Adam Sanborn, Zhu Jianqiao & Jake Spicer - Financial markets are, of course, notable for their unpredictability...
Nov 29, 20194 min read
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Beyond the Green Growth Hype
Marion Dumas - Businesses that innovate to produce more ecological products generally see an increase in their revenue, but why?...
Nov 21, 20193 min read
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Beyond Individualism
David Sloan Wilson - The hardest thing for a fish to see is water. This adage aptly expresses the difficulty we have understanding our own..
Nov 1, 20195 min read
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North and South: Why so Divided?
Stephen Fisher - There have long been anxieties about regional inequalities in Britain...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
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What can the Daily Mail teach us about the crisis of capitalism?
Tony Curzon Price, Gavin Hassall, Jeremy Davies and James Couper -The "crisis of capitalism" is now a term heard in the political mainstream
Oct 16, 20195 min read
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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 9, 20193 min read
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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?
Oct 3, 20193 min read
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New Foundations for Macroeconomics
David Sloan Wilson - Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have...
Jul 29, 20193 min read
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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 24, 20193 min read
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So. Farewell then PFI, what next for infrastructure finance?
Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Benjamin Bowles & Kate Bayliss - The UK’s infrastructure needs investment. From potholes to HS2...
Jul 11, 20193 min read
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Can Artificial Intelligence be used to Integrate Money Creation into Macroeconomics?
Mingli Chen, Andreas Joseph*, Michael Kumhof* & Aruhan Shi - In our project for Rebuilding Macroeconomics, we bring together two princ...
Jul 9, 20194 min read
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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
Jul 4, 20193 min read
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Does Inequality Stoke Support for Nationalism?
Steven Bosworth - It can have escaped no one that the political institutions in western democracies are going through
Jul 3, 20193 min read
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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
Jul 2, 20194 min read
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