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About Us
Rebuilding Macroeconomics is a research network part of the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). It was previously funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The network explores the self-organising (not necessarily self-stabilising) order that grows from the direct interactions between millions of people as they seek to discover better frameworks to make sense of their changing world. We ask fundamental questions about macroeconomics in the ‘real world’ and encourage rigorous, innovative and interdisciplinary research.
We take fundamental uncertainty as ubiquitous, and that we respond through our social interactions. This shifts the emphasis to knowledge creation and allows us to return to the time-honoured big macroeconomic questions of wealth creation, sustainability, distribution, power, coordination and institutions.
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The RM network was initially funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council in 2017. We began at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and moved to our new home at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP), University College London in mid-2021.
We ask fundamental questions about macroeconomics in the ‘real world’ and encourage rigorous, innovative and interdisciplinary research. We take fundamental uncertainty as ubiquitous, and that we respond through our social interactions. This shifts the emphasis towards questions of generation, innovation and sometimes crises, and away from systems that must always be in equilibrium.
Meet the Management Team
Dr. Angus Armstrong
Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics.
In addition, Angus also assumes the role of Chief Economic Adviser to Lloyds Banking Group.
Prof. Dennis J. Snower
Dennis is founder and President of the Global Solutions Initiative and Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability at the Hertie School in Berlin.
Prof. J. Doyne Farmer
Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
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