Kimberly talks with polymath Dr. J. Doyne Farmer about his new book Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World. A physicist, Doyne’s life experience and intellectual curiosity landed him at Oxford University, directing an interdisciplinary group of researchers in the complexity economics program.
Key Topics Kimberly and Doyne discuss include:
Why Doyne gave up a promising career as a full-time gambler in Las Vegas for physics
Why we should cut traditional economists a break, even though they keep making some big mistakes
How food coloring in a loaf of bread and rock-paper-scissors help explain chaos theory
Why Doyne deserved a Nobel Prize in Economics for how accurately complexity economics predicted the economic impact of COVID-19
How complexity economics can help to rescue us from our climate change nightmare
What Brian Eno’s ambient music and Doyne Farmer’s Climate Policy Laboratory have in common
You can find Doyne on his website, Twitter, and LinkedIn
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