This virtual discussion will follow J. Doyne Farmer's SFI Public Lecture on strategies for "doing economics better." A video and transcript of the Public Lecture will be distributed to registered discussion attendees in advance. In the virtual discussion itself, we will push Doyne to elaborate on the applications of his ideas that are most relevant to ACtioN members, such as investing, technology diffusion, and climate change mitigation. We will also allow ample time for members of the ACtioN community to ask Doyne specific questions related to their own work.
More About the Speaker
J. Doyne Farmer is Director of Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is the Baillie Gifford Professor at Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, as well as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His current research is in economics, including financial stability, sustainability, technological change and economic simulation. He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm that was sold to the United Bank of Switzerland in 2006. His past research spans complex systems, dynamical systems, time series analysis and theoretical biology. He founded the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and while a graduate student in the 70’s he built the first wearable digital computer, which was successfully used to predict the game of roulette.