The Inequality Revolution In Macroeconomics

ESA VIC Branch in association with La Trobe University invite you to attend this seminar presented by Professor Wendy Carlin. 

The inequality revolution in macroeconomics: business cycles, inflation, instability

Macroeconomics responds to crises with new models and facts – and new policy. In the last century, there was the Keynesian revolution in response to the Great Depression and the rational expectations revolution in response to the great stagflation. A third revolution was prompted by the global financial crisis of 2008: this is the inequality revolution in macroeconomics and it, too, is producing new models and facts. Is there a new macroeconomics synthesis that is useful to policymakers of the 21st century?

About The Speaker

Wendy Carlin FBA is Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at UCL, Research Fellow of the CEPR and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research is on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, the economics of transition, and evolution of economic research and education. Her fourth macroeconomics book, subtitled ‘Institutions, instability, and inequality’ co-authored with David Soskice was published in 2024. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the Office for Budget Responsibility. She leads the CORE Econ project, which is changing economics education around the world www.core-econ.org and is co-director of the Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL. In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to economics and public finance and in 2022 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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ESA VIC Branch and La Trobe University