Ernst Strungmann Forum

Complexity and Evolution

A New Synthesis for Economics

February 1–6, 2015

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

David Sloan Wilson and Alan Kirman, Chairpersons

Program Advisory Committee

Eric Beinhocker, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, U.K.

Alan Kirman, Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Marseille, France

Julia Lupp, Ernst Strüngmann Forum, Frankfurt, Germany

Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut and Evolution Institute, U.S.A.

Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute for Economics, Germany

David Sloan Wilson The Evolution Institute, U.S.A.

Goals

• To extend the theoretical foundation of economics and public policy by integrating complex systems theory and evolutionary theory
• To put a synthesis of complex systems theory and evolutionary theory to work in solving problems of basic research as well as real-world applications ranging from individual behavior to global economic systems.

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