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Beatrice Cherrier - Economists have recently exhibited considerable anxiety regarding their influence on policy-makers and citiz...

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Professor Steve Keen - With the simple insight that “labour without energy is a corpse, and capital without energy is a sculpture...

Sayantan Ghosal, Marcus Miller, Leaza McSorley & Ekkehard Ernst - Once again, the people of Britain are living in interesting times; and...

Claudius Gräbner - The Eurozone, once celebrated as a ‘convergence mechanism’, has instead experienced economic

Alice Evans - How do we come to empathise with distant others: not just feel sorrow for their suffering...

Henrietta Moore - The CIA use the term “blowback” to refer to the unintended consequences of an operation

Maxim Gusev and Dimitri Kroujiline - Macroeconomic models rarely make explicit how people actually interact. When this

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

Ekaterina Svetlova - Rebuilding Macroeconomics’ Finance Hub held its second workshop to discuss the interdisciplinary approaches to finan...

Robert MacKay & Marcus Miller ---The question posed for the Rebuilding Macroeconomics’ Instability Hub is “Why are economies...

Pawel Bukowski - According to the Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014) the global labour share of output fell from 65% in 1980 to 59% in 2012.

Daniela Gabor, Yannis Dafermos, Jo Michell - How did shadow banking contribute to the global financial crisis? Is a stable shadow ban...

Isabella Weber - Globalisation has coincided with specialisation and wealth accumulation on unprecedented scales. By bringing togethe...

Carolina Alves - Some may think that the gender balance in economics is fine and gradually improving. Yet the proportion of women in eco

Carolina Alves & Gavin Hassall - Rebuilding Macroeconomics (RM) hosted its Women in Economics event at NIESR recently, as part of the...

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

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Ekaterina Svetlova - Why ‘financial resilience’ rather than ‘financial stability’? We believe that resilience shows greater appreciation

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

Paul Collier & Dennis J. Snower - The social foundations of our economies are being tested. Fragmentation – by class, race, ethnicity...

Ekaterina Svetlova - Since the Global Financial Crisis, there has been a growing movement to reconsider the tools and methods used by the...