Angrynomics

Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily [...]

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Blockchain and the Digital Economy

Fred Steinmetz, Lennart Ante, Ingo Fiedler

Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt digital interaction across our economy and society. As the internet has changed our lives, the potential for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies [...]

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Bounded Rationality

Graham Mallard

Understanding how we take economic decisions and how we depart from rational choice theory has become increasingly important to understanding the workings of the economy at all levels. The concept of [...]

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Cultural Economics

Christiane Hellmanzik

The cultural industries and their products and services make a significant contribution to the global economy and are seen as strategic sectors for sustainable economic growth. However, industries such [...]

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The Japanese Economy

Hiroaki Richard Watanabe

Although still the world’s third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including [...]

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Quantitative Easing

Jonathan Ashworth

Before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008–09, significant reductions in official interest rates typically proved sufficient to generate sustainable economic recoveries from downturns. However, with [...]

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