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09 Apr 21

'Middle-Out: More than a Slogan' - Eric Beinhocker interviewed in Democracy Journal

Professor Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director of INET Oxford, was interviewed alongside Nick Hanauer for the journal Democracy this week. In the interview...

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08 Apr 21

Climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay COVID debts

Most governments’ borrowing during the pandemic pays scant attention to the effects that climate change could have on their ability to repay...

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06 Apr 21

'Reflections on how basic narratives about capitalism influence economic research' - Linus Mattauch Seminar

In his final seminar as Deputy Director of INET's Economics of Sustainability Programme, Linus Mattauch reflected on how basic societal narratives (such...

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05 Apr 21

INET Oxford COVID-19 Research

During the pandemic, this page will post work and notes by INET Oxford researchers with data, analyses and views on the crisis...

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24 Mar 21

'British housing is expensive and its supply must increase': FT's Martin Wolf discusses INET Oxford research

In this week's Financial Times, Martin Wolf drew on research by our Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer to analyse problems with the...

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15 Mar 21

Achieving net zero: INET researchers provide Parliamentary evidence

In 2019, the UK Government set itself a monumental challenge – achieving a target of net zero emissions by 2050. It is...

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12 Mar 21

Preventing insurance industry ‘bankruptcy cascade’ requires more diverse risk models

To build a more robust and profitable industry – and to prevent a cascade of bankruptcies – catastrophe insurers should use a...

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25 Feb 21

Janine Aron & John Muellbauer profiled in BankIndaba

BankIndaba, the in-house magazine of the South African Reserve Bank (‘SARB’), have profiled INET Oxford Senior Research Fellows Janine Aron and John...

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10 Feb 21

Global heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru: Guardian feature on new INET Oxford research

The Guardian has featured new research by Doctoral Student Rupert Stuart-Smith (INET Oxford and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Professor...

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08 Feb 21

'Can complexity economics save the world? It has to': Eric Beinhocker at SFI

In November 2019, Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director of INET Oxford, gave a lecture at the Santa Fe Institute’s (SFI’s) annual trustees’ symposium...

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28 Jan 21

'The revolutions under way in macroeconomics': FT's Martin Sandbu on INET Oxford research

In today's Financial Times, Martin Sandbu talked to David Vines, INET Oxford's Director of Ethics and Economics, about his latest work on...

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20 Jan 21

Targeted support needed to prevent automation hitting low wage workers hardest

Low-wage workers face a double blow from automation, a new Oxford University study has found; they are both more likely to lose...

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19 Jan 21

21st century crises, from the global financial crisis to COVID, demand new economic understanding, say top economists

Leading economists, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Argentina's Minister of Economy Martin Guzman, and academics from Oxford, Yale, Columbia, and UCLA, are...

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14 Dec 20

INET Oxford research inspires new 'Green Recovery Now' movement

Research led by Cameron Hepburn, INET Oxford’s Economics of Sustainability Director and Director of the Smith School, and jointly conducted by INET...

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11 Dec 20

Female-breadwinner families on the breadline

Since the 1990s, there has been a rise in the number of households in which women are working more hours than their...

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10 Dec 20

Bringing women on board: How government policies can improve gender diversity in top jobs

The issue of women’s board membership has become hotly contested in recent years. Achieving a ‘critical mass’ of women on boards matters...

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09 Dec 20

Report: Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions

Alongside the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC’s) work on the Sixth Carbon Budget, the CCC convened an expert policy advisory group to...

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07 Dec 20

INET Oxford’s Linus Mattauch wins Robert Bosch Junior Professorship

Deputy Director of INET Oxford’s Economics of Sustainability programme Dr Linus Mattauch has been awarded the prestigious Robert Bosch Junior Professorship. The...

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04 Dec 20

World's first universal jobs guarantee experiment - Business Insider feature on INET Oxford research

This week Business Insider talked to INET Oxford economist Lukas Lehner and Oxford economist Professor Maximilliam Kasy about their work designing and...

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30 Nov 20

Perpetual bonds as a way out of EU fiscal paralysis - George Soros in Project Syndicate

With Hungary & Poland vetoing the European Union's budget and Covid-19 recovery fund, George Soros makes a strong case for member states...

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30 Nov 20

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

New conference volume co-edited by INET Oxford Executive Director Eric Beinhocker.

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20 Nov 20

FT interview: Prof Doyne Farmer on using contracts to gauge economic health

Prof Doyne Farmer talked to the Financial Times this week about measuring contract volumes to gauge the health of an economy. “GDP...

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20 Nov 20

20th November is Equal Pay Day

Today is ‘Equal Pay Day’, meaning that from today until the end of the year, women will effectively work for free because...

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02 Nov 20

Press release: World’s first universal jobs guarantee experiment starts in Austria 

The world’s first universal jobs guarantee experiment, designed by Oxford University economists and run by the Austrian Public Employment Service, has just...

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23 Sept 20

CFM Interview: Professor Eric Beinhocker

INET Oxford’s Executive Director Professor Eric Beinhocker discusses the new economics movement, the US’s broken social contract, and the need for transformative...

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11 Aug 20

Five lessons from COVID-19 for reducing carbon emissions

What should climate policy after COVID-19 look like? In their new research, published in Environmental and Resource Economics, Franziska Funke, Linus Mattauch...

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06 Aug 20

Intergenerational wealth transfers drive inequality in Britain

Wealth inequality is central to current debates about inequality & fairness in Britain & across rich countries. This study is the first...

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24 Jul 20

Immediate action needed to stem the flow of plastic into the ocean finds report

A new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, Ellen MacArthur...

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23 Jul 20

We still don’t know if warmer weather slows down the spread of COVID-19

The arrival of summer in the Northern Hemisphere has caused increased interest, from both the research community and the public at large...

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10 Jul 20

François Lafond Appointed Deputy Director, Complexity Economics

We are very pleased to announce that François Lafond has been appointed Deputy Director of the Complexity Economics Programme.  

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02 Jul 20

INET Oxford at the Young Scholars Initiative COVID-19 Webinar

INET Oxford academics speak in the YSI COVID-19 webinar series.

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11 Jun 20

Foundations of System-Wide Financial Stress Testing with Heterogeneous Institutions

In a highly connected financial system, seemingly localised shocks can be amplified and propagated to take on systemic importance.