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“Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.”

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Paul Ormerod
Paul Ormerod

Paul Ormerod is a British economist born in 1969. He has conducted extensive research in the field of economics, particularly in the areas of economic behavior and complex systems theory. Ormerod's work often explores the irrationality of economic decisions and the instability of markets. more

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