After Trump and Brexit: A New Economics - Towards a Sustainable and Just Global Future
Economists discuss a new economic paradigm for a sustainable and just global future, addressing the failures of unregulated profit pursuit and the rise of economic nationalism.
Social and Economic Engineering - InterPlanetary Festival 2018
Explore social and economic engineering with experts discussing future challenges and opportunities in technology, society, and economics.
Evolutionary Theory and Human Decision-Making: Reconciling Rationality with Biological Constraints
Exploring how evolutionary theory can explain human decision-making, challenging traditional views of rationality and offering insights into behavioral economics anomalies.
Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization
Explore the nature of complexity across scales, from genes to civilizations, with leading thinkers discussing fundamental questions about the universe, life, and human existence.
Parables from Complex Systems and Their Possible Meanings for Our Lives - Lecture 2
Explore complex systems through parables, examining prediction models, chaos theory, and market dynamics to gain insights applicable to everyday life and decision-making.
Rethinking Economics for a Sustainable and Prosperous World - Episode 2
Exploring how digital technologies and big data transform economics, challenging traditional models and institutions. Discusses new approaches for sustainable prosperity and restoring societal trust in a complex world.
Are Political and Economic Inequality Evolutionary Universals?
Explore the evolutionary roots of political and economic inequality, examining their universality across societies and potential implications for modern social structures.
Harnessing Social Capital to Enhance Collective Welfare
Explore how social networks and inequality impact collective welfare. Experts discuss the origins of social disparities and potential strategies to improve individual and societal well-being through data-driven insights.
Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality in Economics, Math, and Physics - Part 2
Exploring the limitations of algebraic theory in economics and advocating for algorithmic approaches to capture the evolving nature of innovation and exchange in complex systems.
Economics in Nouns and Verbs - Process-Based Approaches to Economic Theory - Part 1
Exploring how traditional economic theory fails to capture the dynamic nature of economies, and how a process-based approach can provide a more comprehensive understanding of economic phenomena.
Thoughts on Rational Inference - Is Information Theoretic Inference Rational?
Exploring rational inference approaches for incomplete information in complex sciences. Discusses defining and implementing rational methods, handling misspecifications, and addressing model uncertainty and robustness.
Time Scales and Tradeoffs in Crisis Management - SFI Flash Workshop
Exploring complex tradeoffs in COVID-19 response: balancing health, economics, and long-term impacts. Experts discuss managing conflicting timescales and applying insights from climate science and sustainability to navigate the crisis.
Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles
Geoffrey West explores scaling laws in cities, discussing how urban environments amplify human creativity and challenges, and examines the accelerating cycle of crisis and innovation driving our global economy towards potential peril.
Scaling Laws and Social Networks in the Time of COVID-19 - Part 1
Exploring scaling laws in biology, cities, and economies, and their implications for societal challenges like pandemics and sustainability. Insights from complex systems science for understanding human civilization.
The Future of the Economy - Technology Evolution and AI Impact
Exploring technology's evolution through biology, this talk examines how AI reshapes labor and finance, offering insights into designing human systems that align with physical and biological laws.
Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions - Transmission Series Episode 5
Explore how embracing complexity in systems can lead to better interventions in various fields, from epidemiology to conservation, and improve decision-making under uncertainty.
The Future of the Economy - Technology Evolution and AI Impact
Exploring technology's evolution through biology, this talk examines how AI reshapes labor and finance, offering insights into designing human systems that align with physical and biological laws.
Better Investing Through Biomimicry
Explore how biomimicry can revolutionize investing strategies, balancing innovation with sustainability and growth with resource distribution. Learn to apply nature's wisdom for better business outcomes and environmental healing.
Time Scales and Tradeoffs in Crisis Management - Daniel Schrag Excerpt
Exploring tradeoffs between health, economics, and environment during COVID-19, with insights on managing complex, multi-timescale challenges for coordinated solutions and crisis mitigation.
Time Scales and Tradeoffs in Crisis Management - An Excerpt
Exploring tradeoffs in pandemic response: balancing health, economics, and long-term impacts. Insights on managing complex challenges across different time scales, drawing from climate science, network dynamics, and global policy.
On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity
Exploring how crises reshape opportunities, this talk examines evolutionary strategies for navigating disruptions and the potential for innovation amidst catastrophe in a post-coronavirus world.