William Brian Arthur | |
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 Arthur at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2011 | |
| Born | 31 July 1945 |
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| Field | Complexity economics |
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| Alma mater | Lancaster University University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Stuart Dreyfus |
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William Brian Arthur (born 31 July 1945) is a Belfast-born economist credited with developing the modern approach to increasing returns.[1] He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets. He has been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab[2] at PARC. He is credited with the invention of the El Farol Bar problem.
- ^ Foreword by Nobel Economist Kenneth Arrow to Arthur's book Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
- ^ "Intelligent Systems Lab". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2007.