In a recent study in Physical Review Letters, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar and colleagues show that the ...

Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early-career scholars and change-makers from civil society and private industry are equally encouraged to apply.

Exploring the difference between "stable" and "robust" touches on essentially every aspect of what we instinctively find interesting about robustness in natural, engineering, and social systems. It is ...

Size distributions in some ecosystems follow a power (Zipf-)law behavior spanning up to two ten decades. A model for the origins of this scaling behavior is presented ...

Anselme CormierLecturer in ancient history at the Université catholique de l'Ouest in Nantes and research associate at the Centre Jean Bérard in Naples ...

One of the most important ways that humans have impacted biodiversity in the long run is through reducing the abundance of megafauna (animals over ca. 45 kg/100 lbs). It is well known that toward the ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific decisions for ...

Please log in to view this page.

Please log in to view this page.

Please log in to view this page.

Macroeconomists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes, and an enormous theoretical literature has developed examining many models of expectations ...

At the Santa Fe Institute, we're asking big questions.