Making Sense of Chaos - A Better Economics for a Better World

Previously, he was an Oppenheimer Fellow and the founder of the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While a graduate student he led a cooperative calling itself Eudaemonic Enterprises who built the first wearable (and concealed) digital computer and used it in casinos, successfully beating the house. He was a founder of Prediction Company, an early quantitative automated trading firm that was sold to the United Bank of Switzerland in 2006. His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability and technological progress, and a founder of Macrocosm, a new company using complexity economics to guide the green energy transition. As an adventurer and avid sailor, Doyne also finds time to enjoy sailing his boat Eudemon.<>

Product details

• Authors: J Doyne Farmer, J. Doyne Farmer
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9780241201978
• ISBN: 978-0-241-20197-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business; popular science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Forecasting, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Popular economics, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, economic forecasting, Chaos Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Economic theory and philosophy