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Paul Ormerod lecture "Algorithmic economics: new approaches to macroeconomics"

Paul Ormerod will talk at the MMU Business School @1pm on Thurs 8th November 2018, room BS 3.21. All welcome.

Paul Ormerod is a dissident economist, most famous for his first book “The Death of Economics” which critiqued the discipline in 1994. Apart from his many academic papers, he was one of the founders of the Henley Centre for Forecasting, and author of three more books: “Butterfly Economics”, “Why most things fail” and “-Positive Linking: How Networks and Incentives Can Revolutionise the World_”.

More about his activities can be found at http://paulormerod.com or the consultancy he co-founded with others: Volterra Partners which do a lot of work for the government and business sectors.