Filip Lubinski

My review of J. Doyne Farmer’s (INET Oxford) “Making Sense of Chaos” is already available at the Journal of Evolutionary Economics website:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00191-024-00876-4

J. Doyne Farmer needs no introduction to anyone interested in complexity economics. He is widely known for his achievements in this field. The list goes from bold and groundbreaking ideas that he implemented as a student to scientific articles that he publishes up to this day as a professor at Oxford University (Farmer et al. 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). Yet, we had to wait thirty years for him to publish the book. That’s how long his manager “nagged” him to write it. Finally, Making Sense of Chaos came to European bookstores this year in April, just to get followed by the US edition (Yale University Press) in August. It was worth waiting for and might be the most important popular science book in complexity economics since Eric Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth (2006). However, as discussed in this review, Farmer’s book has much more personal character.