Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford

Discovery - The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer - BBC Sounds Doyne Farmer on how predict the future to help prevent climate change and win at roulette.

When @doynefarmer.bsky.social was a student, he walked into a Vegas casino, sat down at a roulette table and beat the house!

LISTEN to BBC interview to hear how he's using his powers of prediction @inetoxford.bsky.social to resolve how best to prevent climate change.
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A new Q&A + Working Paper to accompany @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social John Muellbauer's property tax reform proposal published ➡️ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/property-tax-reform-proposal-gains-momentum-ahead-of-uk-budget @econchange.bsky.social @sheltercharity.bsky.social

#WIFO Research Seminar with Karolina Bassa (@inetoxford.bsky.social; @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social) – A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability

Date & Time: 01 October 2025, 12:30 pm

Register now: veranstaltungen@wifo.ac.at

▶️ Join us: buff.ly/auvhpnG

Additional role for for @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social  announced

Eric has been appointed to the Science Board of @sfiscience.bsky.social as its Chair

The role advises on scientific strategy for the Institute.

https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/eric-beinhocker-to-chair-santa-fe-institute-science-board

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Want to know about the latest opportunities to engage with Oxford researchers on #policy-academic collaborations?

The Oxford Briefing offers all this and more!

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John Muellbauer's w/e opinion for @financialtimes.com has generated 1K comments

🡂 Replace top 2 council tax bands with annual wealth tax of 0.5%

🡂 1% tax on agricultural &unoccupied land valued above £40K p/ha

@oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @econchange.bsky.social @neonuk.bsky.social

Most Effective Models To Guide The Net-Zero Transition A new guide for climate and finance ministries on the most effective ways to model the Net-Zero Transition has been published in the Oxford Review of…

▶New guide to modelling the net zero transition is published;
▶Gives clarity to a plethora of available modelling options becoming increasingly relevant

Led by @cameronhepburn.bsky.social

www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/most-ef...

Expert Comment: A property wealth tax is now politically feasible | John Muellbauer, Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of

💷 'Council Tax is probably the most regressive property tax in the world.'

@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️

Terrific news for @inetoxford.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social!

Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality… Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…

This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.

Lessons from chaos theory on Trump tariff bottlenecks - Risk.net Forecasting the ripple effects of trade policies presents a special challenge

Lessons from chaos theory on Trump tariff bottlenecks - feat. @doynefarmer.bsky.social @inet-complexity.bsky.social

"Farmer looks at economies as complex networks, drawing on the ideas of chaos theory to model interactions between the players."

#EconSky @risk.net

www.risk.net/our-take/796...

Expert Comment: Welfare for the 21st century | University of Oxford Should the UK cut welfare benefits for the people with disabilities and for those out of work, thereby increasing poverty, to finance more prisons and ammunitions? Opinions differ - and a heated

New Op-ed:
"Welfare for the 21st century"
ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

@maxkasy.bsky.social discusses British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argues that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all.
#EconSky

New Op-ed:
"Welfare for the 21st century"
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

I discuss British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argue that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all.

cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @INETOxford

Great work @joelnmdyer.bsky.social @inet-complexity.bsky.social #EconSky

We’ve got a new paper out on “Learning Likelihood-free Reference Priors”, forthcoming at #ICML2025.

In this paper, we consider how reference priors (RPs) can be constructed for arbitrary simulation models. 🧵

Was great to have @friesenbichler.bsky.social @ascii-at.bsky.social visiting @inet-complexity.bsky.social this term!

Great collaboration on supply chains and ABMs with @doynefarmer.bsky.social @francoislafond.bsky.social & Christian Diem

It was great to visit @inetoxford.bsky.social for the term. Our interdisciplinary supply chain research paves the way for better economic models. In particular, I was working on firm-level surveys and how they can augment large network models and ABMs with reaction functions. Thanks for having me!

Incredible work from Cephas Svose, who makes a great contribution @inet-complexity.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

His current research focuses on the interaction between different trading strategies of traders on the stock market using Agent-Based-Modelling to understand complex systems

Special Issue Captures Vibrant Moment in Complexity Economics An edition of the Journal of Economic Behavior co-edited by INET Oxford shows how complexity economics can answer the policy questions of the day

Special Issue Captures Vibrant Moment in #ComplexityEconomics

Editorial team:
@jennabednar.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @maria-drc.bsky.social @doynefarmer.bsky.social @francoislafond.bsky.social
+J.Kaszowska-Mojsa, P.Mealy, M.Pangallo & A.Pichler

#EconSky

www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/vibrant...

Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling 180364

We're hiring! Michael Wooldridge, Ani Calinescu and I are looking for a Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling. Applications by 7 July. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2454-fu...

#ABM

Don't miss out!

JOB OPPORTUNITY ⇢ Research Assistant – Macroeconomics of the Seventh Carbon Budget ⇢ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

An opportunity to work under the supervision of Principal Investigator @doynefarmer.bsky.social and become an integral member of the @inet-complexity.bsky.social research group

Well done @linusmattauch.bsky.social 💪

Linus Mattauch wins 2025 European Environmental Economics Award The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists recognised Linus for his strong publication record and wide-ranging work

Great work @linusmattauch.bsky.social for winning the 2025 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics Under the Age of Forty @eaere.bsky.social

@cameronhepburn.bsky.social says Linus' work has had an impact on European climate policy making ⇢ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/linus-m...

What can we learn from the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee pilot for designing effective labor market and social policy?

@maxkasy.bsky.social and I have a new @inetoxford.bsky.social policy brief that summarises the results of the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee.

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Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A… This systematic approach to power, and agency facilitates inquiry into the roots and consequences of context-specific developmental dilemmas. These…

@inetoxford.bsky.social‬ is hosting a talk by Bill Ferguson (Grinnell College) on authoritarian kleptocracy in Russia and the collapse of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas in Oxford's Manor Road Building - 2pm, 5 June. Book now: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/ev...

We're looking forward to Prof David Vines @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @ballioloxford.bsky.social giving a talk on how to build a simple model of optimal policy responses to a temporary rise in energy prices
12 June at 14:00 BST
🔗https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/inet-oxford-seminar-trinity-term-25-w7

Very much looking forward to Bill Ferguson @grinnellcollege.bsky.social visiting Oxford on Thursday 5 June 2025 @ 2:00pm BST

🔗 Join us online or in person for Bill's talk www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/inet-...

@politicsoxford.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

The next @inet-complexity.bsky.social Seminar Series event is with Benjamin Moll (LSE) on Wednesday 4 June 2025 @ 2:30pm BST (Hybrid)
🔗https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-trouble-with-rational-expectations-in-heterogeneous-agent-models
#EconSky