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Simplifying Complexity

Sean Brady from Brady Heywood

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 66

Simplifying Complexity is a podcast about the underlying principles of complex systems. On the show, we explore the key concepts of complexity science with expert minds from around the world. Each episode focuses on an interview where we break down a specific concept in detail.

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How curiosity works

Episode 53

Monday, October 14, 2024 • Duration 43:54

Today we’re joined by Dani S. Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Perry Zurn, Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University.

In today’s episode, Dani and Perry explore the concept of curiosity.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Understanding Cities - Part 2

Episode 52

Monday, September 30, 2024 • Duration 38:15

In our last episode, Professor Michael Batty from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London explained the evolution of city planning and the fundamentals needed to understand city structures and models.

In today’s episode, Michael delves into various theories and laws for explaining urban systems, the role of different models in understanding and predicting city development, and the need to refine these models to facilitate better management of increasingly complex urban environments.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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A puzzle, a problem, and a mess

Episode 43

Monday, May 27, 2024 • Duration 41:35

Gerald Ashley is the Co-founder and Managing Director of St Mawgan & Co, a London-based strategy and risk consulting agency.

In today’s episode, Gerald explores the difference between risk and uncertainty, the challenges of managing them in the financial world, and how it can be powerful to split issues into either puzzles, problems, or messes.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Is complexity economics the answer?

Episode 42

Monday, May 13, 2024 • Duration 48:03

Nicholas Gruen is the CEO of Lateral Economics, Patron of the Australian Digital Alliance, and a Visiting Professor at Kings College London.

In this episode, Nicholas discusses the limitations of traditional economic models and emphasises the importance of nuanced problem-solving. He advocates for critical thinking and an interdisciplinary approach to decision-making within complex economic systems, and asks if embracing another paradigm, in this case, complexity economics, is really the answer.

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Lateral Economics website

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Making sense of chaos with Doyne Farmer

Episode 41

Monday, April 29, 2024 • Duration 39:15

J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

In this episode, Doyne discusses his journey from chaos theory to complexity economics. He shares his experience developing agent-based models for the economy and talks about the importance of multidisciplinary work and applying complexity science principles to economics and climate change.

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Purchase ‘Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World’ here

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Decoding the Panama Papers - Part 2

Episode 40

Monday, April 15, 2024 • Duration 38:43

Continuing from our last episode, we’re joined again by Brooke Harrington, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Herbert Chang, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College.

In this episode, Brooke and Herbert explore their research findings on the offshore financial system and discuss why policy interventions to date targeting wealth management have largely failed. They then explore how the findings of their research offer a way forward.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Decoding the Panama Papers - Part 1

Episode 39

Monday, April 1, 2024 • Duration 46:07

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Brooke Harrington, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Herbert Chang, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College, to discuss the world of offshore finance.

You’ll hear about how using offshore finance is akin to eating at a restaurant and skipping out on the bill, and how Brooke trained to be a wealth manager to better understand how the industry works. Brooke and Herbert then discuss how they used the data from the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers to undertake quantitative research into the networks that make offshore finance possible.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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How cities drive economic progress

Episode 38

Monday, March 18, 2024 • Duration 29:57

What role do cities play in driving economic progress?

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Luis Bettencourt, Professor at the University of Chicago and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, who explains how cities allow us to do something magical - they allow us to specialise.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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Big Ideas: The Origin of Life

Episode 37

Monday, March 4, 2024 • Duration 37:47

How does a group of molecules transition into something that is life? And what do even mean when we say 'life'?

To explore the origin of life, we’re joined again by Sara Walker, Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Associate Professor in Earth and Space Exploration and Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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In conversation with Rory Sutherland - Part 2

Episode 36

Monday, February 19, 2024 • Duration 35:13

In today’s episode, we continue our conversation with Rory Sutherland, UK Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, where he discusses how our decision making, especially as consumers, while often appearing irrational, is actually the result of us deploying heuristics that have served us well in situations of low trust or when we don't have all the information.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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