David Orrell

David Orrell is an applied mathematician and author of popular science books. He studied mathematics at the University of Alberta, and obtained his doctorate from Oxford University on the prediction of nonlinear systems. His latest book is Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money. Follow: @d_orrell

Girls Rock Camp for Economists

What Economists can Learn from Girls Rock Camp.

By David Orrell Based on an extract from Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets It Wrong (2017). In 2010, when I wrote a chapter on gender issues in economics in the first edition of Economyths, I […]

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The Economics Debate: The Problem isn’t Bad Economics, It’s Bad Science

The argument between orthodox economists and their critics resembles one that occurred in weather forecasting in the mid-nineteenth century.

By David Orrell “The test of science is its ability to predict” — Richard Feynman As if governed by some deterministic law, the current debates between economists and critics follow a predictable path. Critics begin by […]

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How the Economics Profession Is Coming to Terms with Its Role in the Great Financial Crisis

It’s time for mainstream economists to relax the defenses and open up a little.

By David Orrell Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a pioneer in the field of grief counselling, identified the five stages of grief as denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This extract from Economyths draws on her model […]

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