INET Complexity Economics

Book Talk: The Infinite Alphabet This event is co-organised by The TIDE Centre We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are…

In our final #ComplexityEconomics seminar of the term on 11 March, we're delighted to welcome @cesifoti.bsky.social to talk about The Infinite Alphabet, exploring the many principles that govern how knowledge grows, moves and decays.
@tidecentre.bsky.social

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Now available online: Liquidity Spirals - new working paper co-authored with Garbrand Wiesema @ecb.europa.eu and Esti Kemp (IMF) investigates how the (pecking) order in which institutions liquidate assets in response to shocks affects financial stability.

www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...

Cutting Edge Climate Macroeconomics: Reflections from Pisa Tom Youngman, Research Project Manager for Macroeconomics of the Seventh Carbon Budget, reflects on the three-day workshop, 'Macroeconomic Implications of…

Tom Youngman and @pirta-palola.bsky.social were in Pisa last week presenting our work on a macroeconomic model to assess the impacts of the UK’s #CarbonBudgets at the Workshop on Climate Macroeconomic Pluralism. Tom shared his thoughts on the workshop: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/reflect...

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The economist trying to save the planet with his own crystal ball No one can predict the future... yet. Will Rogers-Coltman speaks to Professor Doyne Farmer about his lofty aims to build the world’s first super-simulator

The economist trying to save the planet with his own crystal ball: read @doynefarmer.bsky.social's interview in The Standard

#ComplexityEconomics #EnergyTransition @smithschool.ox.ac.uk @inetoxford.bsky.social

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Are we measuring economic progress the right way?

INET Oxford founder @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social and entrepreneur and philanthropist @nickhanauer.bsky.social argue it's time for a new approach.

Learn more on Thursday 5 March 👇
https://tinyurl.com/23djt3m2

@inetoxford.bsky.social

This Thursday I'll be at @museuciencies.cat discussing chaos theory, time and its implications with @evamirandag.bsky.social and @ricardsole.bsky.social. Looking forward to it!

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Miracle or Myth? The macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across… The presentation will focus on the expected macroeconomic productivity gains from Artificial Intelligence (AI) over a 10-year horizon in OECD and G20…

In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 4 March @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's Peter Gal will be talking about the macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across the globe. Online and in person
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Podem predir el futur mitjançant les matemàtiques? Què ens diu la teoria del caos? Quins són els límits de la nostra capacitat de predir la complexitat? Parlarem amb Doyne Farmer, un dels pares de la teoria, i amb la matemàtica Eva Miranda @evamirandag.bsky.social
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The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV edited/with contributions from team members inc @doynefarmer.bsky.social @francoislafond.bsky.social @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social @maria-drc.bsky.social is a fabulous (free to download) resource for anyone interested in #Complexity
@sfiscience.bsky.social

“We want to do for economic planning what Google maps did for traffic planning, so we can give anybody who has an economic question an intelligent and useful answer.”

@doynefarmer.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com

#Complexity #EconSky #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition

Sara AlMahri @ifmcambridge.bsky.social is the next speaker in our @inet-complexity.bsky.social seminar series!

Join us on Wednesday 11th February @14:30 GMT in person or online, Register ➼ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/from-...

Oxford Summer School in Economics Networks - now with added @doynefarmer.bsky.social!
#ComplexityEconomics #EconSky
@oxfordeconnet.bsky.social

Our first @inet-complexity.bsky.social seminar of the year is coming up, featuring a book talk from @maxkasy.bsky.social!
Don't forget to register to watch in person or online ➸ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...
@oxfordecondept.bsky.social

And keep an eye out for one more talk still to be announced! We hope to see you online or in person soon.

Book Talk: The Infinite Alphabet We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern its motion.…

On 11 March @cesifoti.bsky.social will be discussing his book The Infinite Alphabet which unravels the laws describing the growth and diffusion
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-i...

Miracle or Myth? The macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across… The presentation will focus on the expected macroeconomic productivity gains from Artificial Intelligence (AI) over a 10-year horizon in OECD and G20…

Miracle or myth? On 4 March @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's Peter Gal will discuss the macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across the globe.
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/mirac...

From information to intelligence: LLMs and agentic AI in supply chain… Focusing on visibility and disruption management, it examines how unstructured external information can be converted into structured network knowledge,…

Next up on 11 Feb, Sara AlMahri from @cam.ac.uk's Supply Chain and Artificial Intelligence Lab will present From information to intelligence: LLMs and agentic AI in supply chain management
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Book Talk: The means of prediction - how AI really works (and who… As economist Maximilian Kasy shows in The Means of Prediction , artificial intelligence, far from being an unstoppable force, is irrevocably shaped by…

Here's the announcement you've been waiting for - our Complexity Economics seminar speakers for this term! We start on 4 Feb with @maxkasy.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social discussing his new book The means of prediction: How AI really works (and who benefits)
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...

Do you want to help develop new theories for systems that adapt, evolve, and interact?

Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program, a fully funded, 10-week experience for undergraduates, offering mentorship, seminars, and project development.

Apply by Jan 14, 2026

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Highly recommended by all our team members who have attended in the past!

Complexity Economics Insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget This briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget inquiry showcases four research programmes from the University of Oxford’s…

You can read our briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget inquiry showcasing 4 research programmes from @inetoxford.bsky.social that could help inform decisions

@doynefarmer.bsky.social @emilienravigne.bsky.social @bapeterj.bsky.social
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Had the pleasure of giving talks at @cphsodas.bsky.social and @iasliu.bsky.social this past week on my recent preprint, "Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change". Thank you to my kind hosts, and I'm excited to continue learning about and sharing multi scale dynamics research!

There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's seminar with the Chief Economist of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Donna Leong. 👇

Mission analysis – how does the UK government model the transition to… How does government conduct analysis to meet its twin missions of Clean Power 2030 and Accelerating to Net Zero?

In our #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 3 December: How does government conduct analysis to meet its twin missions of Clean Power 2030 and Accelerating to #NetZero? Director of Analysis and Chief Economist at DESNZ Donna Leong will give her perspectives.
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Interested in how to address inequality in economic models? Collective action and climate change? What the roadblocks are to better economic predictions? We have the podcast episode for you! 👇
@doynefarmer.bsky.social @inetoxford.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk #Complexity #EconSky

Cities are dynamos of demographic change, however our data practices can often hide this fact. In this paper, we explore growth in Chicago, a city purportedly burdened by a stagnating population. Using methods from population ecology, we show that not only is Chicago undergoing rapid, spatially...

Opinion | The Post-Cold War Era Is Over. What Should We Call This New One?

Great piece from Tom Friedman @nytimes.com on how to think about this crazy era we're in - and what to even call it! (And a few quotes from yours truly towards the end.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

WIFO Research Seminar: A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability YouTube video by WIFO

If you want to hear more from Karolina, you can watch the related WIFO research seminar she gave last month on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n8H...