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Bristol’s Festival of Economics to return this autumn
Some of the key economic questions of our time will be discussed and debated at the Festival of Economics, which returns to Bristol in the autumn.
The festival was previously organised by Bristol Ideas, but the organisation closed down earlier this year after 30 years.
The 2024 festival, which will take place across the city from September 30 to October 3, will be run as a Bristol Ideas legacy project by Economics Observatory, University of Bristol.
This year, sessions will explore lessons from the past; the UK economy in an election year; and Britain’s place in the world.
A full programme will be confirmed later in the summer.
Ahead of the festival, an event next month will introduce its audience to ‘complexity economics’.
J. Doyne Farmer describes how rebellious economists and other scientists are revolutionising our ability to predict the economy, developing new approaches to global problems- like climate change, inequality, and the devastating impact of financial crises, which hit the poorest hardest.
The idea behind complexity economics have been around for many years, but enabled by enormous improvements in computing power and big data, its time has come. We can now build real-world computer simulations of the economy that track its emergent behaviour in detail.
Promoting his new book, Making Sense of Chaos, Professor Doyne Farmer will be appearing at Waterstones at The Galleries on Wednesday, June 5 from 7pm.
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