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W. Brian Arthur

W. Brian Arthur is an External Economics Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Visiting Researcher at PARC in California. Formerly at Stanford, he is the recipient of the inaugural Lagrange Prize in Complexity Science and the Schumpeter Prize in Economics.

The Economy Isn’t A Machine. It’s Organic and Constantly Evolving.

The origins of complexity economics

By W. Brian Arthur Economics is a stately subject, one that has altered little since its modern foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing radically. Standard economics is suddenly being challenged by a […]

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