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Complexity Economists*

Eric Beinhocker is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. 

W. Brian Arthur is External Professor at Santa Fe Institute.

Robert Axtell is Co-director of George Mason University's Computational Public Policy Lab.

Jenna Bednar is a political science professor at the University of Michigan.

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is Chairman and Chief Scientist at Capital Fund Management and a physics professor at Ecole Polytechnique.

David Colander is an economics professor at Middlebury College.

Molly Crockett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and lab director of Crockett Lab.

J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.

Ricardo Haussman is Director of Harvard's Center for International Development.

Cars Hommes is an economics professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Alan Kirman is professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Aix-Marseille III.

Scott Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan.

David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

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