Imagination in Economics

Blogs, talk transcripts, media, and select committee evidence: 

(Titles with hyperlinks for downloads in purple)

Bronk, Richard (2022).

Economic rationality: towards a broader conception

Introduction to session on Economic Rationality at the Hayek worksop at the London School of Economics, 19-20 May 2022.


Bronk, Richard (2022).

The epistemics of populism and the politics of uncertainty revisited.

Submission to the Demos 'Futures of Populism' workshop held at the Political Studies Association Headquarters in London (13 May 2022).


Bronk, Richard (2021).

Re-imagining the mind: why brain plasticity and working fictions imply the mind is far from flat.

Review essay written in response to Nick Chater's The Mind is Flat:The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind,  Penguin, 2019.


Bronk, Richard (2021).

Uncertainty and the use of interdisciplinary insights in complex decision-making.

Transcript of short talk given at the Westminster Higher Education Forum conference on Evidence-based Policymaking (21 May 2021).


Bronk, Richard (2021).

The art of following the science.

LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (18 January 2021). Website.


Bronk, Richard (2020).

The median voter is dead - long live political moderation!

LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (13 October 2020). Website.


Bronk, Richard (2020).

Brexit is a policy innovation that causes uncertainty: to tackle it the government must avoid groupthink.

LSE Brexit Blog (20 July 2020). Website. 


Bronk, Richard (2020).

Imagining a resilient future of equity finance.

Rebuilding Macroeconomics (17 April 2020). Blog.



Bronk, Richard (2020).

How can we achieve moral progress?

The New Institute, Hamburg (24 Feb 2020). Talk transcript.


Bronk, Richard (2019). 

Uncertain futures and the politics of uncertainty

STEPS Centre Blog (03 Sep 2019). Blog Entry.


Bronk, Richard (2018). 

Might economists be partly to blame for Trump and moves towards a ‘full British Brexit’? 

LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (27 Jun 2018). Website.


Bronk, Richard (2017). 

Do institutional networks support a monoculture in macroeconomics? 

Rebuilding Macroeconomics (11 Dec 2017). Blog.


Bronk, Richard (2017). 

Written evidence (BMP0003) to the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee - How to safeguard youth mobility after Brexit.  

UK Parliament website. 


Bronk, Richard (2016). 

Let young people move: why any post-Brexit migration deal must safeguard youth mobility

LSE Brexit Blog (19 Jul 2016). Website.


Bronk, Richard (2016). 

Letter to MPs from a Remain voter: a plea for realism, tolerance and honesty

LSE Brexit (29 Jun 2016). Website.


Bronk, Richard (2009)

Coleridge at the G20

The Guardian (21 March 2009). Opinion.

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