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Making Sense of Chaos
A Better Economics for a Better World
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J. Doyne Farmer
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English
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2024
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From a pioneer in the field of complexity science and chaos theory, a plan for solving the world’s most pressing problems
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J. Doyne Farmer is director of the complexity economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He divides his time between Oxford, UK, and New York.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of Illustrations
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Prologue
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Introduction
1 - Part I: What Is Complexity Economics?
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1. What is a Complex System?
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2. The Economy is a Complex System
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3. Understanding the Metabolism of Civilization
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4. How Simulations Help us Understand the Economy
73 - Part II: Standard Economics ⇔ Complexity Economics
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5. A Lightning Summary of Standard Economics
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6. Modeling an Uncertain and Complicated Economy
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7. Why Is the Economy Always Changing?
123 - Part III: The Financial System
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8. Inefficient Markets
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9. The Self- Referential Market
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10. Ecology and Evolution in Finance
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11. How Credit Causes Financial Turbulence
191 - Part IV: Climate Economics
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12. How we Learned to Predict Weather and Climate
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13. Climate Economics and Technological Progress
234 - Part V: Modeling for a Better Future
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14. Guidance to Solve Some of Our Big Problems
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15. Removing the Roadblocks
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16. Becoming a Conscious Civilization
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Bibliography
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Notes
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Index
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August 6, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780300280333
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384
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20 b-w illus.
