As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week on Complexity, we speak with two SFI External Professors helping to rethink political economy: newly-appointed Science Board Co-Chair Ricardo Hausmann (Website, Wikipedia, Twitter) is the Director of the Harvard Growth Lab and J. Doyne Farmer (Website, Wikipedia) is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In this episode we zoom wide to try and find a way to garden all together, learning limits that can help inform discussion and decisions on the shape of things to come…
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Mentions and additional resources:
The new paradigm of economic complexity
Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O’Clery, and David Rigby
in Research Policy
How production networks amplify economic growth
James McNerney, Charles Savoie, Francesco Caravelli, Vasco M. Carvalho, and J. Doyne Farmer
in PNAS
Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development
by Neave O’Clery, Muhammed Ali Yıldırım, and Ricardo Hausmann
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare
Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter
in ScienceDirect
Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited
Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer
in Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
(Twitter thread)
Complexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
Christopher P. Kempes and David C. Krakauer
in Journal of Molecular Evolution
Scaling of urban income inequality in the USA
Elisa Heinrich Mora, Cate Heine, Jacob J. Jackson, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Christopher P. Kempes
in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Complexity 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
Complexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Pitchfork Economics
by Nick Hanauer (podcast)
Complexity 15 - R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment
Will a Large Complex System be Stable?
by Robert May
in Nature
Investigations
by Stuart Kauffman
The Collapse of Networks
by Raissa D’Souza (SFI Symposium Talk)
Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance
Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith
Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies
Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1
Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
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