J Doyne Farmer
Complex systems scientist and entrepreneur
J. Doyne Farmer is an American complex systems scientist who works on complexity economics at Oxford University. He is the author of Making Sense of Chaos.
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Born 1952 in Houston, United States
About J Doyne Farmer
Farmer holds the Baillie Gifford professorship in Complex Systems Science, a post based at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also directs the program on complexity economics run by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, part of the Oxford Martin School, and he is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research looks at systemic risk in financial markets and at technological progress. He co-founded Prediction Company, an early firm in fully automated quantitative trading. As a graduate student he led a group that built the first wearable digital computer and used it to beat roulette. He is also a founder and Chief Scientist of Macrocosm Inc, which works to put complexity economics methods into practice. His book Making Sense of Chaos was published by Allen Lane in April 2024.