Alan Kirman

Alan Kirman is professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Aix-Marseille III and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His Ph.D. is from Princeton and he has been professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Warwick University, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Advice to an Aspiring Economist: The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention

This is a revolution in economics and one which is only beginning.

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Distinguished Economist Says Economics Has Gone down a Blind Alley

Traditional economics is mathematically sophisticated without representing the fundamental features of the macro-economy

By Alan Kirman, David Bassett, and François Claveau Alan Kirman is professor emeritus at l’Université d’Aix-Marseille III and researcher at GREQAM (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille). He has published over a hundred academic articles and […]

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Orthodox Economics Is Empirically Invalid and Theoretically Flawed. Bring on Complexity Economics.

Both economists and policy makers had been lulled into a sense of false security

By Alan Kirman Over the last two centuries there has been a growing acceptance of social and political liberalism as the desirable basis for societal organisation. Economic theory has tried to accommodate itself to that […]

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