This resource library is designed for those who have participated in a Rethink Lab event and want to revisit a reference. However, even if you haven’t been introduced to The Rethink Lab, you are very welcome to explore these resources on Complexity and New Economic Thinking.
The list is just a selection of the books, articles, and online resources synthesised within The Rethink Lab. It’s not exhaustive—I've left out material that requires extensive scientific knowledge. If you can’t find the reference you’re looking for, please get in touch.
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Complexity Thinking
Books
Complexity: a Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
Making Things Work by Yaneer Bar-Yam
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by Mitchell Waldrop
Four ways of thinking by David Sumpter
Articles
Science and Complexity by Warren Weaver
Online courses
Introduction to Complexity by Santa Fe Institute
Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World by University of Groningen
Systems Thinking
Books
Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World by John Sterman
Thinking in Systems: a primer by Donella Meadows
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Books
The Origin of Wealth: the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric Beinhocker
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling
The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur
The Invisible Hand : How Market Economies Have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 by Bas van Bavel
Articles
Increasing Returns and the New World of Business by Brian Arthur
Online lectures
The economy as a complex and evolving system by Eric Beinhocker
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Books
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Benoit Mandelbrot
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs by Len Fisher
Financial Market Complexity by Neil Johnson
Articles
Networks of Economic Market Interdependence and Systemic Risk by Yaneer Bar-Yam
Complexity theory and financial regulation by Stefano Battiston
Economics needs a scientific revolution by Jean Philippe Bouchaud
Online lectures
How we can predict the next financial crisis by Sornette Didier
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Books
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence by Cliff Bouwman, Jean Boulton, and Peter Allen
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World by Donald Sull
Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity by Jennifer Garvey Berger
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux
Articles
Leverage points, places to intervene by Donella Meadows
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Chaos and Uncertainty
Chaos and Dynamical Systems: Lessons for Complex Systems by David Feldman
Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart
Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Progogine
Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics by Robert May
Why plankton communities have no equilibrium: solutions to the paradox by Marten Scheffer
Synchronisation
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz
Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us by Duncan Watts
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert Schiller
Self-organisation
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality by Per Bak
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-László Barabási
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth Stanley
Complexity Economics (including The El Farol Model) podcast by Sean Carroll with Brian Arthur
Patterns of change
Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems by CS Holling
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West
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