The author's witty and informed analysis of events provides an ideal introduction to important ideas for anybody interested in how the modern economy works.
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Paul Ormerod is a distinguished economist focused on exploring the complexity and unpredictability of modern economies. His work delves deeply into human behavior, psychological influences, and social factors that shape economic outcomes, often challenging traditional rational models. Ormerod emphasizes understanding how economic systems evolve and how novel patterns emerge within them, offering readers a penetrating view into the dynamics that drive our world.
- 2018
- 2017
Checklist of Papuasian Orchids
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
The book provides an extensive and detailed account of Papua New Guinea's wild orchids, serving as an essential reference for botanists, ecologists, and enthusiasts. It includes comprehensive listings of all orchid types, synonymous names, and their respective herbarium locations. Notably, it introduces 35 new species and subspecies, along with 25 new scientific combinations, and presents new classifications within several genera. Technical illustrations complement the descriptions, making it a vital resource for anyone studying these unique plants.
- 2012
Positive Linking
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
According to Paul Ormerod, author of the bestselling Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail, the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks.
- 2006
Why Most Things Fail
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Focuses on why some businesses fail, and how to avoid it. This book looks at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed. It shows what strategies corporations, businesses and governments will need to adopt to stand a chance of prospering in a world where only one thing is certain.
- 1998
Is There a Third Way?
Essays on the Changing Direction of Socialist Thought
- 62 pages
- 3 hours of reading
- 1994
The Death of Economics
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This text questions the abilities of the economists who influence political decisions on the economy. Ormerod aims to show that traditional economists view the world in a way which ensures they will never be able to understand it. He suggests that economies are not machines, but dynamic organisms
