Latest Documents - New Approaches for Economic Challenges

30-May-2022

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Financing Resilient Health systems: Is There a Trade-off between Efficiency and Resilience?

Building more resilient health systems will require smarter investments to be better prepared for future crises. Smart investments in health resilience protect economies from destabilising shocks, and protect people from premature death. The challenge is to make these investments whilst maintaining the financial sustainability of health systems.

21-April-2022

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Next Generation Analytical Approaches to Policy

World experts on state-of-the-art policy applications emerging from new analytical tools and techniques show how methodological innovations and interdisciplinary approaches could contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and interaction of our economic, financial, social and environmental systems.

5-April-2022

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New Approaches to Understanding and Managing Inflation

What does the upsurge in inflation tell us about the effect of the pandemic on the economy? What were the demand, supply and structural factors at work? How much inflation is useful for the economy in current conditions? This seminar discusses the prospects for inflation given current economic and geopolitical dynamics and what it tells us about how well we understand the macro economy.

10-February-2022

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The Resilient Society - Markus K. Brunnermeier

"The Resilient Society" addresses business leaders, policymakers, and concerned global citizens and argues that the only way to protect our social and economic institutions from climate change, cyberattacks, and other shocks to come is to build resilience and invest in mechanisms for bouncing back.

27-January-2022

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Taming the Crazy: Mitigating Infodemics with the Science of Mental Immunity - Andrew Norman

Epidemics of cognitive contagion present an existential threat in a globalised world. Understanding the mind's immune system - cognitive immunoloy - can help tackle "infodemic" problems of weaponised social media, conspiracy theories, distrust of public institutions and science denial.

24-November-2021

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Public Debt in a Post Pandemic World - Barry Eichengreen

Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted warnings about the dangers of heavy debts on economic growth and the burden for future generations.

4-November-2021

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Launch of Government Economists for New Economic Systems (GENESYS)

NAEC has established Government Economists for New Economic Systems (GENESYS) as a platform for debating, experimenting and discussing policy alternatives and the analytical approaches which underpin them.

29-October-2021

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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy - Adam Tooze

Social organisation, political interests, and economic policy interact with devastating human consequences, from the local hospital to the World Bank, Tooze analyses what the unintended consequences of the vaccine race might be, the role climate change played in the pandemic, and how no unilateral declaration of ‘independence” or isolation can extricate any modern country from the global web of travel, goods, services, and finance.

29-September-2021

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Are the Estimates of Economic Damages from Climate Change Erroneous?

The seminar reviews the empirical work in economics on climate damages and discuss the extent to which economic sectors are exposed to climate change and how to incorporate important features such as tipping points.

1-September-2021

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Value(s): Building a Better World for All - Mark Carney

Mark Carney discusses the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.