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		Ormerod's exploration of this question starts off with a simple model of foraging ants, that can choose to follow other ants, or chose to change their minds spontaneously.
		What these new models demonstrate is that short term attempts to control the economy are doomed to failure, and government interventions are basically futile.
		But governments shouldn't worry -- Ormerod points out what they could be doing that would have long term benefits.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/o/paulrmrd.htm (189 words)

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		Ormerod took his mana off into orbit on the third turn as he laid the second piece of the Urzatron, fetched the third and dropped a Talisman.
		Ormerod was facing down a 20/2 Frogmite and decided to match that with two indestructible 11/11 monsters.
		Ormerod made a Talisman on turn two but was facing another quick start from Willis as a Worker was followed out by Cranial Plating.
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	Play Journal: Paul Ormerod: Why Things Fail
		Paul Ormerod is a most unusual kind of business guru: he preaches that company failure is the norm, and that from the right perspective, can even be seen to be healthy.
		Ormerod draws the certainty of his book's title, Why Most Things Fail, from two places: 1) his extensive knowledge of economic theory, which is keenly aware of the subtleties and complexities in the discipline, not often articulated in standard textbooks and by official economists.
		Ormerod's response was to admit that the evolutionary turbulence he advocates perhaps has to be toned down in the public sector: "we think that they're spending our money, so we are anxious that they are accountable to that...There needs to be more dead-weight process in the public sector, to ensure this accountability".
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	E.F.: Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Ormerod's summary of the neo-classical theory (which theory led to the emphasis in the west over the past 15 years to implement free market solutions regardless of circumstances) is concise and clear:
		Ormerod does a nice job, via presentation of empirical data, of demolishing the notion (beloved of governments) of the Phillips Curve, the idea that there is a simple relationship between unemployment and inflation (ch.
		Ormerod lambasts the tendency of academics to prove empirically meaningless theoems, to treat economics as a branch of mathematics rather than an empirical science.
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	Paul Ormerod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Theoretical Economist researching complexity, complex systems, nonlinear feedback, the boom and bust cycle of business and economic competition.
		Ormerod uses a multidisciplinary approach, making use of biology, physics, mathematics, statistics and psychology as sources of results that can be applied to economics.
		Paul Ormerod has written the books "The Death of Economics" and "Butterfly Economics" as well as many articles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Ormerod (105 words)

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		Paul Ormerod has a novel explanation for this regrettable but constant feature of political life.
		It is a careful, comprehensible analysis of the limits of human rationality's ability to control the world, and of the implications for public policy - and, to some extent, for personal conduct - of the failure of most rational calculation to produce its intended results.
		Ormerod's despairing vision of the inevitable failure of practical reason seems unable to account for that fact.
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	getAbstract Book Summaries: Book Summaries online
		Paul Ormerod’s critically acclaimed work pinpoints the failings of traditional economics and government policy making by demonstrating the complex nature of economies and societies.
		Ormerod’s premise: Standard economic theory fails to take into account the fact that people are influenced in their decision making by other people.
		Paul Ormerod has been head of the Economics Assessment Unit at The Economist and a visiting professor at the University of London and the University of Manchester.
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		That’s British economist, Paul Ormerod, commenting on what I believe to be an elementary economic truth in his stimulating book, Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior.
		Ormerod notes that the title of his book – Butterfly Economics – emphasizes this fundamental view of society as a living creature, which adapts and learns.
		Ormerod points out that the image of the butterfly also draws upon popular ideas of chaos theory, in which the beating of the wings of a butterfly can in principle cause a tornado (or even a catastrophic tsunami) on the other side of the globe.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Why Most Things Fail, by Paul Ormerod, Hardcover
		With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the "Iron Law of Failure" as it applies to business and government- and explains what can be done about it.
		Ormerod debunks conventional economic theory- that the world economy ticks along in perfect equilibrium according to the best-laid plans of business and government- and delves into the reasons for the failure of brands, entire companies, and public policies.
		Paul Ormerod was the head of the Economic Assessment Unit at The Economist and the director of economics at the Henley Centre for Forecasting in England.
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	Krugman, P. (1994), “The Age of diminished expectations”, 4th revised and updated edition, MIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Krugman, Phelps, Ormerod and Heilbroner have produced forceful analyses on the current state of the economy, society and economic theory itself, and all with a distinct attention for unemployment.
		Ormerod gives much attention to uncertainty, and the way that he presents it carries with it the suggestion that nothing can be done about unemployment.
		Ormerod: "But perhaps the most important point of all, linked though it is to the underlying mathematics, must be stated in words, for it is a question of moral values.
	econwpa.wustl.edu:8089 /eps/get/papers/9704/9704002.html (5641 words)

	Yonder Come the Blues : The Evolution of a Genre :: Yonder Come the Blues : The Evolution of a Genre books, reviews and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Paul Omerod Paul Ormerod "Butterfly Economics A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior".
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		Paul Ormerod "Butterfly Economics A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior"
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	Institute of Economic Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In a bid to understand the huge variations in crime rates in different places with similar characteristics, such as similar levels of poverty, a fact which has puzzled experts for years, Paul Ormerod divided the population into four groups according to their criminal potential.
		According to Ormerod, people are influenced to be criminals not only by deprivation or lack of adequate deterrents, such as harsh penalties, but also by their social interaction.
		Paul Ormerod, currently a director of London-based business consultants, Volterra Consulting, is also author of Death of Economics, Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail.
	www.iea.org.uk /record.jsp?type=release&ID=92 (729 words)

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		Paul Ormerod achieved notoriety, even opprobrium among orthodox economists, with the publication in 1994 of his best-selling book The Death of Economics.
		Ormerod’s aim was to provide a critique of conventional economics which was accessible to general readers.
		In this invited article, Paul Ormerod revisits ‘the death of economics’.
	www.world-economics-journal.com /PDFViewer.asp?Id=60 (251 words)

	Turning the Tide: Bringing Economics Teaching into the Twenty First Century
		As the UK economy moved back towards full employment in the 1990s and a minimum wage was introduced, the appeal of ordinary jobs increased and crime fell (Kershaw et al., 2001).
		Of course, this is by no means the whole story, but it is simply not possible to give an account of how crime changes over time without considering the role of incentives (see, for example, Ormerod et al., 2002).
		Ormerod, P., Mounfield, C. and Smith, L. Non-linear Modelling of Burglary and Violent Crime in the UK, Home Office Research Series, London: Volterra.
	www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk /iree/i1/ormerod.htm (3328 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Ormerod, a former head of the Economic Assessment Unit at the Economist magazine, argues that companies and society behave more like living organisms: Unless they evolve, they die.
		Ormerod's intellectual touchstones are two economists who fled Central Europe in the 1930s, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter.
		In reality, Ormerod argues, companies operate in an environment characterized by disequilibrium, where it's a challenge for General Motors Corp. and other carmakers to know what pickup truck to build, what price to charge and how many drivers might buy it in the future.
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	Is the Dismal Science Dazed and Confused?
		Ormerod's solution is to announce that economics isn't dead after all--only sick.
		In Butterfly Economics, Ormerod expands on the main point of his well-received first book, namely that his fellow economists must shake off 19th-century determinism and accept that the world is chaotic, nonmechanistic, and unpredictable.
		Ormerod wants to unify microeconomics and macroeconomics by showing how the aggregate behavior of an economy grows out of the interactions of individual agents: people and companies.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_04/b3665046.htm (788 words)

	European Business: July 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Ormerod, an economist whose previous books The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics have demonstrated an originality of thought (and a knack for snappy titles), is concerned about what he calls the ‘Iron Law of Failure’.
		But failure, Ormerod says, is the key to understanding how economies – and biology – work.
		Given that words are just one way of getting the data across – the book makes full use of charts, diagrams and pictures – it feels as though the author is sometimes no more than a step away from descending into the mobile’s true lingua franca – text speak.
	www.decision-maker.net /features/2005/jul/review_bookreview.html (526 words)

	Ormerod Family Genealogy Forum
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		Ormerod, Longridge and Blackburn - Marion Ward 10/15/01
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /ormerod (946 words)

	TAP: Vol 7, Iss. 29. Of Economists and Liberals. Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		(Paul Ormerod, whose The Death of Economics strongly criticizes the profession, described me in a recent review as "wonderfully open-minded.") I am willing to give a hearing to any economic argument that does not contain obvious logical holes, or ignore readily available evidence.
		It is rather that the increased marketization of economic life, in a global marketplace, undermines the century-old project of devising a regulated or social-democratic form of capitalism.
		This is the real divide between those who believe in laissez-faire plus a bit of tweaking, and those who advocate what Paul Samuelson termed a mixed economy.
	www.prospect.org /print/V7/29/29-cnt.html (2453 words)

	Death of Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In his preface, Professor Paul Ormerod says that the book is mainly addressed to members of the general public.
		Professor Ormerod suggests that he has been fortunate in being able to combine academic research with a business career, which has removed the formidable pressures to conform which are faced by fulltime academics.
		The thousands thrown out of work as a result of modelling errors in the past five years might be a little consoled if they knew somebody else suffered for contributing to their misery, and for the dud growth forecasts that prolonged it.
	www.greypower.co.nz /book6.html (679 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - Book Review (September 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		was written by Paul Ormerod, who has been a visiting professor at the universities of London and Manchester, as well as a research head on the staff of the respected British weekly
		Ormerod first examines the ability of a currently popular academic tool, called real business cycle theory (RBC), to explain fluctuations in output.
		This theory explains the fluctuations in output by utilizing mathematical optimization models for the dynamics of worker/consumers' labor, spending and saving decisions, and for the dynamics of firms' hiring, investment and output decisions.
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	The Death of Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Renowned British economist Paul Ormerod explodes current economic theory to offer a radical new framework for understanding how human societies and economies really operate.
		His bold and impassioned arguments about how and why economics should be recast to reflect the current ills of Western society —including unemployment, crime, and poverty —are both persuasive and controversial.
		Integrating ideas from biology, physics, artificial intelligence, and the behavioral sciences, Ormerod's groundbreaking approach is sure to have far-reaching repercussions.
	www.historyuniverse.com /bookstore2/0471180009AMUS132889.shtml (199 words)

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		Ormerod's new general theory is inferior to Keynes's GT
		Ormerod(O)has written a sequel to his earlier The Death of Economics in 1994.Ormerod's claim, that a general overview of chaos theory combined with non linear dynamics provides,as applied and interpreted by himself in this book,a new general theory of social and economic behavior,is simply false.
		This book consists of a discussion by Paul Omerod of the obvious failings of conventional economic theory.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics: Books: Paul Ormerod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		I greatly enjoyed the book, certainly it compared very well with Freakonomics, as Ormerod's book told you things you wouldn't have realised, and makes you think more about society.
		I liked the discussions on complexity of organisation and the natural conclusion that competition and decentralisation of decision making is the safest way for organisations, including societies, to survive.
		He clearly believes he has a mission to challenge orthodox classical equilibrium led linear economics, which has the unfortunate problem of being based on over simplified premises, leading to failure to explain many real world phenomena (e.g.
	www.amazon.co.uk /gp/product/0571220126 (1084 words)

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	Butterfly Economics A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior :: Butterfly Economics A New General Theory of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
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	The Motley Fool UK: Foolish Special, 04/01/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Riveting reads on the subject of economics are not exactly common, and this reviewer's usual measure of a good treatise on the subject is one that doesn't send the reader immediately to sleep.
		Now, no book is perfect, and Ormerod goes a little over the top in early chapters when promoting his ideas.
		Ormerod is rather fond of ants too, and early on introduces the problem of predicting the behaviour of a colony of ants that is presented with two identical food sources situated at identical distances from the nest.
	www.fool.co.uk /specials/000104bookreview.htm (1138 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: You've Never Had It So Bad...Honest by Paul Ormerod
		Michael Albert claims to be offering an alternative to capitalism built on values such as solidarity, equity, diversity and democratic control.
		Anyone with a remotely scientific mind who manages to struggle through this book will be more convinced than ever of the merits of the capitalist system.
		Paul Ormerod is a director of Volterra Consulting.
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