Paul Ormerod

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Royal Bank of Scotland fiasco shows the power of networks

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The last week or so has seen complete mayhem in the Royal Bank of Scotland and its subsidiaries.  A computer glitch has caused their payme...
Friday, 1 June 2012

Kahneman and schizophrenia in economics

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I was at a fascinating session last night, with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman in conversation with a leading thinker from the advertisi...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Political map of London is like America: strong geographic segregation

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Thomas Schelling is a brilliant American polymath, who deservedly won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005.   One of his most remarkable i...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Compulsion or Co-operation: Curbing Executive Pay

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Andrew Moss, who has been in charge of Aviva since 2007, has become the third chief executive to quit amid increasing shareholder discont...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

Why do films flop?

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The Disney sci-fi flick John Carter has become one of the biggest flops in movie history. The studio has announced that the film's th...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Corporate structure, Darwinism and Random Selection

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The corporate world exhibits a wide variety of structures. Co-operatives and partnerships have been around for a long time and have some wel...
Monday, 13 February 2012

Co-operation and Competition

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Ed Mayo, ex-head of the New Economics Foundation and now of Co-ops UK, has an interesting blog ( here ) on the importance of co-operation in...
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Paul Ormerod
London, United Kingdom
Paul Ormerod is a leading authority in the application of complexity science and advanced statistical techniques to social and economic phenomena. He has authored three best-selling books: The Death of Economics in 1994 and Butterfly Economics in 1998 have both been published in more than 10 languages. Why Most Things Fail was named a US Business Book of the Year for 2006 by Business Week magazine. Paul is a Fellow of the British Academy for the Social Sciences and in the 2007/2008 academic year was a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham and presents regularly at a wide range of business and academic events.
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