Dear Colleague,

At the height of the Covid pandemic, Rebuilding Macroeconomics worked with international partners to convene a group of students and young professionals to address policy problems posed by policy makers with a view to devising strategies for a systemic recovery.

The results of this collaboration will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, including a paper co-authored by our former colleague Carla Coburger. The programme underpinned a high-level discussion at the OECD with Paul Krugman, Gita Gopinath, Mark Carney, and Ken Rogoff.

We are pleased to distribute the early recording of our colleague David Tuckett’s recent conference on Confronting Radical Uncertainty held at the Royal Society. Speakers include Gerd Gigerenzer and Erica Thompson who has just had her book Escape from Model Land published. Our colleague Doyne Farmer delivered an excellent lecture at an ESCOE conference recently on Agent Based Modelling.

Our Director of IGP, Henrietta Moore takes a deeper look into the cost-of-living crisis beyond energy, as a deeper livelihood crisis of rising food, transport and energy prices combined with high levels of inequality and how this might be addressed through Universal Basic Services as a social protection system for the 21^st century.

Finally, we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Festschrift to celebrate the career and research of Professor Alan Kirman on 16-17 March 2023 in London. Alan’s interests have evolved from general equilibrium theory to seeing markets as complex adaptive systems where aggregate behaviour emerges from interaction between agents with limited knowledge.

Please save the date and we will issue sign-up details in the New Year.

Thank you for your support and warm seasonal greetings.
 
Angus Armstrong
Director, Rebuilding Macroeconomics