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Comment by JacobDotVI | Hacker News Reader

Complexity Economics

I've been binging books on the topic as well as exchanging dialogs with a colleague over email. Books list:

_Completed_

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422121038/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472064967/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671872346/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947864351?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

_To Be Completed_

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

You may like Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo. The principal behind it is called Economic Complexity. It is based on the applications of network and graph theory using export data of a country, region or city as a proxy to its productivity and innovation. I find it pretty interesting.

Interesting! Sounds like it's potentially come from the public policy / macro economic modeling side. I'll check it out.

Great list, another one I would add is "The Misbehavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot:

https://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Fractal-Financial...

Thank you! I've added it to the list. I'm more interested in the business strategy side than the market trading side, but I find having perspectives from multiple disciplines can often be helpful.

I started reading The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and I think I'll continue with Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. Not really compexity economics, but classical economics and anthropology.

Great to see this list. I started reading Origin of Wealth last week and wish I had encountered the book earlier.

What interests you about this?

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