Featured Publications:

No. 2021-17 - Social Class and Earnings Trajectories in 14 European Countries

INET Working Paper 13 Jul 21
In this paper, we seek to contribute to ongoing discussions of the relationship between income and c...

Economic Inequality

Zero-Emissions Shipping: Contracts-for-difference as incentives for the decarbonisation of international shipping

Report 28 Jun 21
Pressure is growing from multiple directions for the shipping industry to decarbonise. Alternative f...

Economics of Sustainability

No. 2021-16 - Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC

INET Working Paper 28 Jun 21
In this paper we bridge the gap between two different approaches to measure inequality: one based on...

Economic Inequality

How market ecology explains market malfunction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 28 Jun 21
We develop the mathematical analogy between financial trading strategies and biological species and ...

Financial System Stability

The Economist as Scientist, Engineer, or Plumber?

Journal of the History of Economic Thought 11 Jun 21
Some well-known economists suggest that a good economist should act like an engineer, a surgeon, a d...

Foundations of Economics

No. 2021-13 - A Productivity Commission: A Proposal for an Australian-style approach to creating a Policy-Reform Process for the UK

INET Working Paper 19 May 21
The UK now faces many fundamental political-economy choices. his paper argues that there is a need f...

Foundations of Economics Financial System Stability

Recent Publications:

Jul 2021 Journal	Comparing expert elicitation and model-based probabilistic technology cost forecasts for the energy transition in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jing Meng, Rupert Way, Elena Verdolini, Laura Diaz Anadon
Jul 2021 Journal	Participatory complexity in tourism policy: Understanding sustainability programmes with participatory systems mapping in Annals of Tourism Research Jenny Suno Wu, Peter Barbrook-Johnson, Xavier Font
Jul 2021 Journal	Population network structure impacts genetic algorithm optimisation performance in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '21) Aymeric Vié
Jul 2021 Journal	Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research in International Journal of Social Research Methodology Peter Barbrook-Johnson, Jayne Carrick
Jul 2021 INET Working Paper	No. 2021-17 - Social Class and Earnings Trajectories in 14 European Countries Leonie Westhoff, Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe
Jul 2021 Journal	Emergent inequality and business cycles in a simple behavioral macroeconomic model in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Yuki Asano, Jakob J. Kolb, Jobst Heitzig, J. Doyne Farmer
Jun 2021 Report	Zero-Emissions Shipping: Contracts-for-difference as incentives for the decarbonisation of international shipping Alex Clark, Matthew Ives, Byron Fay, Ronan Lambe, Johanna Schiele, Lukas Larsson, Jessica Krejcie, Leah Tillmann-Morris, Peter Barbrook-Johnson, Cameron Hepburn
Jun 2021 INET Working Paper	No. 2021-16 - Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC Rafael Carranza, Brian Nolan, Marc Morgan
Jun 2021 Journal	How market ecology explains market malfunction in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Maarten Scholl, Anisoara Calinescu, J. Doyne Farmer
Jun 2021 Briefing	Deciding how to 'change big things quickly': Pros and cons of different appraisal techniques to inform decision-making on low-carbon transformational policies Jean-Francois Mercure, Matthew Ives, Femke Nijsse, Peter Barbrook-Johnson
Jun 2021 Journal	National COVID debts: climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay in Nature Arjuna Dibley, Thom Wetzer, Cameron Hepburn
Jun 2021 Journal	From Ants to Fishing Vessels: A Simple Model for Herding and Exploitation of Finite Resources in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Jose Moran, Antoine Fosset, Alan Kirman, Michael Benzaquen
Jun 2021 Journal	The Economist as Scientist, Engineer, or Plumber? in Journal of the History of Economic Thought Huei-chun Su, David Colander
May 2021 INET Working Paper	No. 2021-13 - A Productivity Commission: A Proposal for an Australian-style approach to creating a Policy-Reform Process for the UK David Vines
May 2021 INET Working Paper	No. 2021-15 - Towards resilient health systems: New institutions, an invigorated civil society, and global cooperation David Vines
May 2021 INET Working Paper	No. 2021-12 - Why is productivity slowing down? Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis, François Lafond, Julian Winkler