Why does the history of economic thought neglect post-Keynesian economics? (2020)
Journal Article

Despite receiving increased interest after the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and consolidating itself as an established research program, Post-Keynesian economics remains under-represented within publications on the history of economics. When... Read More about Why does the history of economic thought neglect post-Keynesian economics?.

Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model (2019)
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We present a New Keynesian model in which a fraction n of agents are fully rational, and a fraction 1 − n of agents are bounded rational. After deriving a simple reduced form, we demonstrate that the Taylor condition is sufficient for determinacy and... Read More about Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model.

The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Diets are changing globally, as agricultural and food systems have become globalised. Understanding how patterns of globalisation affect welfare is a key development question, bu... Read More about The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra.

Discursive strategies in the keynes-hayek debate: Building a liberal critique (2019)
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. This article addresses an analysis of discourse based on Michel Foucault's 'order of discourse' to comprehend which... Read More about Discursive strategies in the keynes-hayek debate: Building a liberal critique.

Short and medium term financial-real cycles: An empirical assessment (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Theories such as Minsky's financial instability hypothesis or New Keynesian financial accelerator models assign a key role to financial factors in business cycle dynamics. We propose a simple VAR-based estimation framework to exam... Read More about Short and medium term financial-real cycles: An empirical assessment.

Macroeconomics, development economics, and biographical topics: Two years in the history of economic thought (2016-2017) (2019)
Journal Article

This article provides a formal account of some of the major themes that shaped the history of economic thought during the biennium 2016-2017. It focuses on three areas, namely, macroeconomics, development economics, and the lives and ideas of selecte... Read More about Macroeconomics, development economics, and biographical topics: Two years in the history of economic thought (2016-2017).

Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways (2018)
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There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary con... Read More about Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways.

The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization? (2018)
Book Chapter

The South African economy has long been dominated by what Fine and Rustomjee (1996) call the “Minerals-Energy Complex” (MEC). Much South African ‘manufacturing’ has been connected to this capital intensive MEC core of the economy, with manufacturing... Read More about The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization?.

Behavioural New Keynesian models (2018)
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© 2018 This paper provides a bird's eye view of the behavioural New Keynesian literature. We discuss three key empirical regularities in macroeconomic data which are not accounted for by the standard New Keynesian model, namely, excess kurtosis, stoc... Read More about Behavioural New Keynesian models.

Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here? (2018)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) has been used for tackling major research questions in macroeconomics for at least two decades. This growing field positions itself as an alternative to dynamic stochastic gene... Read More about Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?.

Exploring our latent potential (2018)
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© 2018 The Author/s and IPPR. Moving towards an economy of freedom.

Can green QE reduce global warming? (2018)
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The idea of a green QE (quantitative easing) programme has gained a lot of traction over the last years. It has been argued that by implementing such a programme central banks could contribute to the fight against climate change. Our recent research... Read More about Can green QE reduce global warming?.

Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Evidence suggests that a disproportionately greater share of formal finance is channelled to large enterprises in emerging economies, limiting the flow of appropriately-financed... Read More about Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies.

Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 The Association for Social Economics. This paper evaluates the recent reform to the curricular governance framework for UK Economics teaching: the revised Subject Benchmark Statement document for Economics (SBSE). The crisis of confide... Read More about Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement.

Financialization and Global Commodity Chains: Distributional Implications for Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
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© 2018 International Institute of Social Studies Restructuring of global and local markets has led to an increased influence of commodity derivatives markets on commodity price setting. This has critical implications for price risks experienced by ac... Read More about Financialization and Global Commodity Chains: Distributional Implications for Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Employers’ responses to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Revisiting the evidence (2018)
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© The Authors 2018. Development Policy Review © 2018 Overseas Development Institute Do employers have a role to play to support people living with HIV? The literature on sub-Saharan Africa points to the existence of a positive business case that sees... Read More about Employers’ responses to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Revisiting the evidence.

How things are produced (2018)
Book Chapter

For Adam Smith, the origins of the wealth of nations can be found in the rapid accumulation of capital made possible by the expansion of scale and scope of production based upon its organisation: the division of labour. It is therefore not surprising... Read More about How things are produced.

Cultural corridors: An analysis of persistence in impacts on local development — A neo-Weberian perspective on South-East Europe (2018)
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Culture matters for economic development. This postulate has been a main conceptual concern for “old” institutional economics (OIE) and has lately also been tested through neoclassically inspired econometric techniques. This conceptual foundation has... Read More about Cultural corridors: An analysis of persistence in impacts on local development — A neo-Weberian perspective on South-East Europe.

Keynes, Foucault and the 'disciplinary complex': A contribution to the analysis of work (2018)
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Economists often agree that productivity and wealth levels rose sharply until the 2008 crash, particularly in the developed world (see inter alia Piketty & Saez, 2013; OECD, 2015). Such prosperity, however, still has not caused a significant reductio... Read More about Keynes, Foucault and the 'disciplinary complex': A contribution to the analysis of work.

Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Clark University. Research highlighting the differential resilience of economies to shocks opens up the possibility that long-run growth paths are associated with how regions cope with and recover from such shocks. To date, however, th... Read More about Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis.