Paul Ormerod

Paul Ormerod is a Lancastrian economist who is currently researching complexity, complex systems, nonlinear feedback, the boom and bust cycle of business and economic competition. Ormerod uses a multidisciplinary approach, making use of biology, physics, mathematics, statistics and psychology as sources of results that can be applied to economics.

Biography

Ormerod completed his undergrad economic studies at Christ's College Cambridge and his postgrad studies at St Catherine's College Oxford, for which he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in economics. Upon graduation he worked as a forecaster at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Later he founded several companies, first Henley Centre which was sold to a FTSE100 company and later Volterra Consulting, which he founded with Bridget Rosewell and till today remains the director.

Bibliography

Paul Ormerod has written three books as well as many articles. His books are:

• The Death of Economics
• Butterfly Economics
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics

See also

• Steve Keen
• Bridget Rosewell

External links

• Homepage of Paul Ormerod
• The Death of Economics
• High Anxieties - The Mathematics of Chaos BBC4 Paul Ormerod was one of the principal interviewees in this BBC documentary directed by David Malone about unpredictability in the economy and the environment