Paul Ormerod
Paul Andrew Ormerod (born 20 March 1950) is a British economist who is a partner at Volterra Partners consultancy. Additionally, he is a visiting professor at UCL Centre for Decision Making Uncertainty.[1]
Research
Ormerod has researched
Biography
Paul Ormerod is a British economist who has worked in a wide variety of fields.
He is a founder of the economics consultancy Volterra Partners LLP, and remains a partner.
Academically, in the 1980s and 1990s he was a visiting professor of economics at Queen Mary, University of London, and the University of Manchester. Paul was a Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, 2007/08 and a Visiting Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham 2010-2013. In 2009 he was awarded a DSc honoris causa by the University of Durham “for the distinction of your contribution to the discipline of economics”. From 2013 to 2018 he was a visiting professor in the Centre for Decision Making Uncertainty at University College London (UCL), and from 2018 he has been a visiting professor in the computer science department at UCL. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Since 2013, Ormerod has written a weekly column for the newspaper
In 2020 he was appointed as chair of the Rochdale Development Agency, the economic development arm of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. In the autumn of 2022 he was appointed chair of Atom Valley Greater Manchester Mayoral Development Zone. Atom Valley is the inspiration of
Rochdale is Paul’s home town and he is President of Rochdale Hornets Rugby League Football Club.
He read economics as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and took the MPhil in economics at the University of Oxford.
Range of interests
Ormerod has worked extensively in the areas of complexity, agent based modelling and the application of machine learning techniques to both macro-economic data and the creation of macro-level emotions from text data. He has published in a very wide range of academic journals with many different collaborators.
Books and monographs
Ormerod has published a number of books and monographs:
- ISBN 978-0-312-13464-8[2]
- ISBN 0-571-19005-7[3]
- ISBN 0-375-42405-9.[4]
- Crime: Economic Incentives and Social Networks, 2005, Institute of Economic Affairs, London[5]
- Economics, Happiness and Public Policy, 2007, Institute of Economic Affairs, London[6]
- N Squared: Public Policy and the Power of Networks, 2010, Royal Society of Arts, London[7]
- Positive Linking – How Networks Can Revolutionise the World, 2018, Faber and Faber[8]
- Against the Grain: Insights of an Economic Contrarian, 2018, published by the IEA in conjunction with City AM[9]
See also
References
- City AM. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- ^ "The Death of Economics | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-375-40765-9.
- ^ "Why Most Things Fail". Faber. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Crime: Economic Incentives and Social Networks". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Happiness, Economics and Public Policy". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Are networks/complexity the future of policymaking? (RSA event report)". The RSA. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Positive Linking". Faber. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Against the Grain". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
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