Latest Documents - New Approaches for Economic Challenges

5-March-2020

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Integrative Economics

If we want to put people at the centre of economic policy, then economics has to study people. It has to understand how their thoughts, feelings, aspirations, history, and culture interact inside them to produce the decisions and actions visible to the outside world. Understanding people to understand the economy is at the core of NAEC, and is the central issue of this conference on integrative economics.

27-February-2020

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Systemic Thinking for Policy Making

We are living in a period of profound systemic change. We have to identify actions that will shape change for the better, and help to build resilience to the inevitable shocks inherent in, and generated by, the complex system of systems constituted by the economy, society and the environment.

14-February-2020

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The Triumph of Injustice - Gabriel Zucman

The Triumph of Injustice calls on historical and economic analysis to examine the choices that led to tax injustice, tax evasion, and the spiral of international tax competition. It proposes a visionary but pragmatic overhaul of taxation to bring concrete solutions to today’s inequality challenges and reconcile globalisation and economic justice.

21-January-2020

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Econophysics and Policy

Econophysics has tended to concentrate on financial markets, and these represent an ideal laboratory for testing economics concepts using the terabytes of data generated every day by financial markets to compare theories with observations. The dynamics of financial markets, and more generally of economic systems, may reflect the same underlying mechanisms that are familiar to physicists.

13-January-2020

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Persistent Low Inflation and the Failure of Institutional Political Economy - Adam Posen

The orthodox institutional view of political economy has dominated the design of the Euro Area and macroeconomic surveillance of advanced economies and it has failed in both policy terms and as an explanatory framework.

20-November-2019

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The Crisis of the Global Order - Martin Wolf

The history of the liberal global order, the post-war world economy in an era of profound transformation where institutions and assumptions have become fragile. The central characteristics of this new transitional era are: the rise of China , the rise of populism, and the break-up of the post-war western alliance. We need to create a stable, global and co-operative order based on multiple values and shared commitments.

30-October-2019

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Measuring Economic Performance and Social Progress

The High Level Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (HLEG) argues that we need to develop dashboards and tools to examine the factors that determine what really matters for people and the places in which they live: who is benefitting from growth, whether that growth is environmentally sustainable, how people feel about their lives, what factors contribute to an individual’s or a country’s success.

14-October-2019

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Big Business - Tyler Cowen

We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From sceptical politicians to millennials, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently malevolent? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of our economies?

17-September-2019

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Averting Systemic Collapse

This conference examined the potential for financial, economic, environmental and societal collapse and crucially the interconnections between these different systems. It explored the latest scientific findings on the extent of stress on these systems as well as the policies that could place them on a sounder footing by building buffers, safeguards and systemic resilience.

11-September-2019

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