Brian Arthur

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Arthur during the 2011 WEF

William Brian Arthur (* 1945 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a British economist , professor at the Santa Fe Institute and visiting researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab ( Xerox PARC ). One focus of his research are complex adaptive systems .

Life

Arthur earned a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley .

From 1977 to 1982 Arthur worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg near Vienna.

From 1983 to 1996 Arthur was Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University in Stanford (California) . At times he was also Dean and Professor of Population Studies and Economics .

From 1988 to 2006 he was a member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, from 1994 to 2004 on the Board of Trustees there and from 1987 to 1990 and from 1994 to 1995 director of the local program for economics.

Since 2019 the media group Clarivate has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy. Ann Arbor 1994
  • The Economy as an Evolving Complex System. 2nd edition, edited with Steven Durlauf and David Lane. Addison-Wesley 1997
  • The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves. The Free Press 2009.

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 38-39

Web links

Commons : W. Brian Arthur  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schumpeter prize. In: issevec.uni-jena.de. January 12, 2017, accessed April 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Arthur, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arthur, W. Brian; Arthur, William Brian; Arthur, WB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British game theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland