Scott E. Page
American social scientist and professor
Scott E. Page is an American social scientist at the University of Michigan who studies diversity and complexity. He is the author of The Model Thinker.
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About Scott E. Page
Page has worked at the University of Michigan since 2000, where he holds a distinguished university professorship named for John Seely Brown. He directed the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at Michigan from 2009 to 2014, and he is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Among his research interests are collective wisdom, culture and adaptation, as well as path dependence and computer models of social life. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The Model Thinker, The Diversity Bonus and The Difference, which was designated a Princeton Classic in 2025. He also teaches the online Model Thinking course on Coursera.