Biography
J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He is also External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Chief Scientist at Macrocosm.
His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability and technological progress. He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm that was sold to UBS in 2006. His past research includes complex systems, dynamical systems theory, time series analysis and theoretical biology. His book, Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World, was published in 2024.
During the 1980s he was an Oppenheimer Fellow and the founder of the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While a graduate student in the 1970s he built the first wearable digital computer, which was successfully used to predict the game of roulette.
Prof Farmer's PA, Dorothy Nicholas, can be reached on 01865 610403 or dorothy.nicholas@inet.ox.ac.uk.
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Recent Publications
Samuel Wiese , Jagoda Kaszowska-Mojsa , Joel Dyer , Jose Moran , Marco Pangallo , François Lafond , John Muellbauer , Anisoara Calinescu , J. Doyne Farmer
in Joule
Lennart Baumgärtner , Rupert Way , Matthew Ives , J. Doyne Farmer
in Industrial and Corporate Change
Jangho Yang , Torsten Heinrich , Julian Winkler , François Lafond , Pantelis Koutroumpis , J. Doyne Farmer
in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Joel Dyer , Patrick Cannon , J. Doyne Farmer , Sebastian Schmon
in Nature Energy
Peter Barbrook-Johnson , Jean-Francois Mercure , Simon Sharpe , Cristina Penasco , Cameron Hepburn , Laura Diaz Anadon , J. Doyne Farmer , Timothy M. Lenton
in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)
Joel Dyer , Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Nicholas Bishop , J. Doyne Farmer , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge
J. Doyne Farmer , John Geanakoplos , Matteo Richiardi , Miquel Montero , Josep Perelló , Jaume Masoliver
Joris Bucker , R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Anton Pichler , Matthew C. Ives , J. Doyne Farmer
in Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF '23)
Joel Dyer , Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Ayush Chopra , J. Doyne Farmer , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge
in Nature Human Behaviour
Marco Pangallo , Alberto Aleta , R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Anton Pichler , David Martin-Corral , Matteo Chinazzi , François Lafond , Marco Ajelli , Esteban Moro , Yamir Moreno , Alessandro Vespignani , J. Doyne Farmer
in Science
Anton Pichler , Christian Diem , Alexandra Brintrup , François Lafond , Glenn Magerman , Gert Buiten , Thomas Choi , Vasco M. Carvalho , J. Doyne Farmer , Stefan Thurner
Anna Berryman , Joris Bucker , Fernanda Senra de Moura , Peter Barbrook-Johnson , Marek Hanusch , Penny Mealy , R Maria del Rio-Chanona , J. Doyne Farmer
in Journal of Open Source Software
Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Joel Dyer , Anisoara Calinescu , J. Doyne Farmer , Michael Wooldridge
Recent Events
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INET Oxford Summer Research Meeting 2024
The event is open to all INET Oxford researchers, staff, visitors, and associate members
In Person Event@17:00
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World - J. Doyne Farmer in conversation with Nicola Ranger
Book talk followed by drinks reception
In Person Event@17:00
'Making sense of chaos: a better economics for a better world' - Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford)
Book talk
Hybrid Event@15:00
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A new perspective on decarbonising the global energy system
Report Launch from Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and INET Oxford
Online Event@17:00
"Supply and demand shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic: an industry and occupation perspective" - Doyne Farmer, Maria del Rio-Chanona & Cameron Hepburn
OMS Lecture Series
Hybrid Event