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Technological advances, rapid demographic change and a warming climate are among the many major challenges facing us. A clearer understanding of what this means for our economies can help governments and business make better decisions on a range of issues, from encouraging innovation, tackling inequality, to responding to climate change.
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Pantelis Koutroumpis awarded 2025–2026 RITICS Fellowship
Policy Brief: Universal Job Guarantee Boosts Wellbeing & Eliminates Long-Term Unemployment
An unconditional job guarantee pilot run from 2020-24 in an Austrian town has filled an evidence gap on a welfare policy tool of widespread interest.
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.
Climate Policy Monitor suggests growth of worldwide climate laws offers resilience to US rollbacks
The explosion of worldwide climate-related policies gives resilience to the climate fight even in the face of the USA’s dramatic change in policies under the Trump administration, findings from Oxford's Climate Policy Monitor show.
Agent Based Modelling Comes of Age
J. Doyne Farmer, Director of Complexity Economics at INET Oxford, believes that creating economic models that can effectively incorporate behavioural realism to make useful predictions may be the most important problem in economics today.
Are mergers necessary for 5G networks?
Research from the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change explores whether mergers in the mobile network industry benefit consumers, or if a new business trend in the sector might be a better approach.
Work with nature to unlock economic prosperity, says major Oxford study
Nature-based solutions involve working with and enhancing nature to address societal challenges – such as climate change - in ways that benefit local communities and biodiversity. A comprehensive review of the economic impacts of nature-based solutions, published today in PLOS Climate, concludes they can unlock prosperity by boosting local economies, increasing agricultural productivity and creating jobs.
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Book talk - 'How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, And The Fate Of Nations' with Prof Carl Benedikt Frey
15th October 2025: 5:00pm
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James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics' with Lord Hague
12th November 2025: 5:00pm
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Long Read: Robot-Proof
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To dismiss the threat of automation is to get the history wrong
When it comes to debates around the future of work, there’s a distinct dichotomy. We’ve all heard tell of nightmarish scenarios where huge swathes of workers will be rendered redundant by ‘the march of the machines’. But there are also those who point to the past, to periods of hugely disruptive technological change – revolution, even – which societies have managed to survive, and dismiss the notion of a jobs apocalypse.
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