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COMPLEXITY

Doyne Farmer

John Bush

Tim Harford

Richard James

Carlo Rovelli

David MacKay

Sir Roger Penrose

Deborah Gordon

Tim Palmer

Melanie Mitchell

Robin Wilson

David Krakauer

Matthew Jackson

Katherine Collins

Olivia Judson

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As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we speak with two SFI External Professors helping to rethink political economy: newly-appointed Science Board Co-Chair Ricardo Hausmann (Website, Wikipedia, Twitter) is the Director of the Harvard Growth Lab and J. Doyne Farmer (Website, Wikipedia) is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In this episode we zoom wide to try and find a way to garden all together, learning limits that can help inform discussion and decisions on the shape of things to come…If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at complexity.simplecast.com. Heads up that our online education platform Complexity Explorer’s Origins of Life Course is still open for enrollment until June 1st! We hope to see you in there…Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInMentions and additional resources:The new paradigm of economic complexityPierre-Alexandre Balland, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O’Clery, and David Rigbyin Research PolicyHow production networks amplify economic growthJames McNerney, Charles Savoie, Francesco Caravelli, Vasco M. Carvalho, and J. Doyne Farmer in PNASProductive Ecosystems and the arrow of developmentby Neave O’Clery, Muhammed Ali Yıldırım, and Ricardo Hausmann Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfareRicardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetterin ScienceDirectHistorical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisitedBas van Bavel and Marten Schefferin Nature Humanities &amp; Social Sciences Communications(Twitter thread)Complexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics RevolutionThe Multiple Paths to Multiple LifeChristopher P. Kempes and David C. Krakauer in Journal of Molecular EvolutionScaling of urban income inequality in the USAElisa Heinrich Mora, Cate Heine, Jacob J. Jackson, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Christopher P. Kempesin Journal of The Royal Society InterfaceComplexity 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social &amp; Economic NetworksComplexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis &amp; The Primacy of Context in Complex SystemsPitchfork Economicsby Nick Hanauer (podcast)Complexity 15 - R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets &amp; Tech UnemploymentWill a Large Complex System be Stable?by Robert Mayin NatureInvestigationsby Stuart KauffmanThe Collapse of Networksby Raissa D’Souza (SFI Symposium Talk)

As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Garfield</a>, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we speak with two SFI External Professors helping to rethink political economy: newly-appointed Science Board Co-Chair Ricardo Hausmann (<a href="https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/people/ricardo-hausmann-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Hausmann" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia, </a><a href="https://twitter.com/ricardo_hausman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>) is the Director of the Harvard Growth Lab and J. Doyne Farmer (<a href="http://www.doynefarmer.com/about-me" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>) is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In this episode we zoom wide to try and find a way to garden all together, learning limits that can help inform discussion and decisions on the shape of things to come…If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">santafe.edu/engage</a>. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">complexity.simplecast.com</a>. Heads up that our online education platform Complexity Explorer’s Origins of Life Course is still open for enrollment until June 1st! We hope to see you in there…Thank you for listening!<a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch Mignano</a>.Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>Mentions and additional resources:<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733321002420" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The new paradigm of economic complexity</a> Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O’Clery, and David Rigby in Research Policy<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106031118" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How production networks amplify economic growth</a> James McNerney, Charles Savoie, Francesco Caravelli, Vasco M. Carvalho, and J. Doyne Farmer  in PNAS<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21689-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development</a> by Neave O’Clery, Muhammed Ali Yıldırım, and Ricardo Hausmann <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22000092" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare</a> Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter in ScienceDirect<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00763-4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited</a> Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer in Nature Humanities &amp; Social Sciences Communications (<a href="https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1376663541810294787" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter thread</a>)<a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/56" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution</a><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life</a> Christopher P. Kempes and David C. Krakauer  in Journal of Molecular Evolution<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0223" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scaling of urban income inequality in the USA</a> Elisa Heinrich Mora, Cate Heine, Jacob J. Jackson, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Christopher P. Kempes in Journal of The Royal Society Interface<a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social &amp; Economic Networks</a><a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/81" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis &amp; The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems</a><a href="https://pitchforkeconomics.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pitchfork Economics</a> by Nick Hanauer (podcast)<a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity 15 - R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets &amp; Tech Unemployment</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/238413a0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will a Large Complex System be Stable?</a> by Robert May in Nature<a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=HLkX-6m4W8kC&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PR7&amp;dq=Kauffman,+S.%C2%A0A.+(2000).+Investigations.+Oxford:+Oxford+University+Press.&amp;ots=ii2tuXhFfh&amp;sig=fLZVkqNCB897FQYkArz9IZYPEas#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Investigations</a> by Stuart Kauffman<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woeQJNev89w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Collapse of Networks</a> by Raissa D’Souza (SFI Symposium Talk)

Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)

Once upon a time at UC Santa Cruz, a group of renegade grad students started mixing physics with math and computers, determined to discover underlying patterns in the seeming-randomness of systems like the weather and roulette. Their research led to major insights in the emerging field of chaos theory, and eventually to the new discipline of complexity economics — which brings models from ecology and physics, cognitive science and biology together to improve our understanding of how value flows through networks, how people make decisions, and how new technologies evolve. As the human world weaves new global economic systems and sustainability looms ever-larger in importance, it is finally time to heed the warnings — and the promises — of this new paradigm of economics.Welcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we speak with SFI External Professor J. Doyne Farmer at INET Oxford, to tour his fifty years of pioneering work and current book-in-progress, The Complexity Economics Revolution. Topics include how ecology inspires novel forms of macroeconomics; how “bounded rationality” changes the narrative about rational self-interested economic actors; how leverage leads to greater instability; how new tools can help us predict emerging innovations and engineer a better banking system; the skewed incentives of science funding and venture capital; his take on cryptocurrencies; and more…If you value our research and communication efforts, please rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/podcastgive. You can find numerous other ways to engage with us at santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInKey Links:Doyne Farmer’s Personal Website | SFI Page | INET Oxford Page | Google Scholar PageDoyne Farmer and related talks on our YouTube channelComplexity Economics from SFI PressRelated Complexity Podcast Episodes:W. Brian Arthur on The History &amp; Future of Complexity Economics[Farmer’s PhD student] R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor MarketsMatthew Jackson on The Science of Social NetworksGeoffrey West on Scaling and Superlinear InnovationDavid Krakauer on Collapse &amp; High-Beta Investment Strategies

Once upon a time at UC Santa Cruz, a group of renegade grad students started mixing physics with math and computers, determined to discover underlying patterns in the seeming-randomness of systems like the weather and roulette. Their research led to major insights in the emerging field of chaos theory, and eventually to the new discipline of complexity economics — which brings models from ecology and physics, cognitive science and biology together to improve our understanding of how value flows through networks, how people make decisions, and how new technologies evolve. As the human world weaves new global economic systems and sustainability looms ever-larger in importance, it is finally time to heed the warnings — and the promises — of this new paradigm of economics.Welcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Garfield</a>, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we speak with SFI External Professor J. Doyne Farmer at INET Oxford, to tour his fifty years of pioneering work and current book-in-progress, The Complexity Economics Revolution. Topics include how ecology inspires novel forms of macroeconomics; how “bounded rationality” changes the narrative about rational self-interested economic actors; how leverage leads to greater instability; how new tools can help us predict emerging innovations and engineer a better banking system; the skewed incentives of science funding and venture capital; his take on cryptocurrencies; and more…If you value our research and communication efforts, please rate and review us at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, and/or consider making a donation at <a href="http://santafe.edu/podcastgive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">santafe.edu/podcastgive</a>. You can find numerous other ways to engage with us at <a href="http://santafe.edu/engage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">santafe.edu/engage</a>. Thank you for listening!<a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch Mignano</a>.Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>Key Links:Doyne Farmer’s <a href="http://www.doynefarmer.com/about-me" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Personal Website</a> | <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/j-doyne-farmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SFI Page</a> | <a href="https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/dfarmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">INET Oxford Page</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Rk7g1U0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Scholar Page</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SFIScience/search?query=doyne%20farmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Doyne Farmer and related talks on our YouTube channel</a><a href="https://www.sfipress.org/books/complexity-economics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity Economics from SFI Press</a>Related Complexity Podcast Episodes:<a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">W. Brian Arthur on The History &amp; Future of Complexity Economics</a><a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">[Farmer’s PhD student] R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets</a> <a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Jackson on The Science of Social Networks</a><a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/35" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Geoffrey West on Scaling and Superlinear Innovation</a> <a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Krakauer on Collapse &amp; High-Beta Investment Strategies</a>

J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution

We are getting better at predicting things about our environment - the impact of climate change for example. But what about predicting our collective effect on ourselves?  We can predict the small things, but we fail miserably when it comes to many of the big things. The financial crisis cost the world trillions, yet our ability to forecast and mitigate the next economic crisis is very low. Is this inherently impossible? Or perhaps we are just not going about it the right way?The complex systems approach to economics, which brings in insights from the physical and natural sciences, presents an alternative to standard methods. Doyne will explain this new approach and give examples of its successes. He will present a vision of the economics of the future as it confronts the serious problems that our world will face.J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford

We are getting better at predicting things about our environment - the impact of climate change for example. But what about predicting our collective effect on ourselves? We can predict the small things, but we fail miserably when it comes to many of the big things. The financial crisis cost the world trillions, yet our ability to forecast and mitigate the next economic crisis is very low. Is this inherently impossible? Or perhaps we are just not going about it the right way? The complex systems approach to economics, which brings in insights from the physical and natural sciences, presents an alternative to standard methods. Doyne will explain this new approach and give examples of its successes. He will present a vision of the economics of the future as it confronts the serious problems that our world will face. J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford

How can we understand our complex economy? - J. Doyne Farmer 