Talk:W. Brian Arthur

Further selection of papers, articles, lectures and papers

Selected Papers

• 1989, Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events, Economic Journal, 99, 106-131,1989.
• 1993, On Designing Economic Agents That Behave Like Human Agents, W. Brian Arthur, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer-Verlag, 1993, 3: 1-22.
• 1994, Bounded Rationality and Inductive Behavior (the El Farol Problem), American Economic Review, 84,406-411, 1994.
• 1994, The End of Certainty in Economics, Lecture appeared in Einstein Meets Magritte, D. Aerts, J. Broekaert, E. Mathijs, eds. 1999, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Holland. Reprinted in [http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Business-Decoding-Enterprise-Management/dp/078794324X/ref=sr_1_1/104-1836051-9191916?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193554542&sr=1-1 The Biology of Business], J.H. Clippinger, ed., 1999, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• 1994, Preface to the book: Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy, Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994.
• 1994, Positive Feedbacks in the Economy, W. Brian Arthur, McKinsey Quarterly, 1994, Number 1.
• 1995, Complexity in Economic and Financial Markets, Complexity, 1, 20-25, 1995.
• 1997, Process and Emergence in the Economy, Introduction to the Book: The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, edited by Arthur, Durlauf, and Lane, Addison Wesley, Reading, Mass, 1997.
• 1997, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, Book review by Gerald Silverberg, Maastricht. W. Brian Arthur, Steven N. Durlauf, and David A. Lane, (Eds.), Proceedings Volume XXVII, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• 1999, Complexity and the Economy, Science (journal), 2 April 1999, 284, 107-109.
• 2000, Cognition: The Black Box of Economics, The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics, David Colander, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, Mass, 2000.

Selected Articles

• 1990, Positive Feedbacks in the Economy, Scientific American, February 1990.
• 1993, Why Do Things Become More Complex?, W. Brian Arthur, Scientific American, May 1993, Volume 268, Issue 5, p. 144.
• 1996, Increasing Returns and the New World of Business, Harvard Business Review, July-Aug 1996.
• 1997, How Fast is the Technology Evolving?, W. Brian Arthur, Scientific American, February 1997, Volume 276, Issue 2, p. 105-106.
• 2002, Illuminating the Blind Spot, Commentary by W. Brian Arthur and others, Leader to Leader, Spring 2002, p. 11-14.
• 2002, Is the Information Revolution Dead?, W. Brian Arthur, Business 2.0, March 2002, Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 65.
• 2003, Going for Broke: HBR Case Study, Case Study commentary by W. Brian Arthur, Harvard Business Review, September 2003, p. 36.
• 2003, Tech is Still the Future, W. Brian Arthur, Fortune (magazine), Volume 148, Issue 11, November 24, 2003. Fortune editorial comment: "An essay by one of the country's foremost economic thinkers."
• 2003, The Inevitability Of Uncertainty, W. Brian Arthur, Across the Board, January/February 2003, Vol. 40, Issue 1.

Selected Lectures

• 1994, The End of Certainty in Economics, Talk delivered at the conference Einstein Meets Magritte, Free University of Brussels, 1994.
• 2000, Myths and Realities of the High-Tech Economy, Talk given at Credit Suisse First Boston Thought Leader Forum, September 10, 2000.
• 2007, Technology Creating Technology, Santa Fe Institute, Public Lecture Series, November 14, 2007, James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Selected Interviews

• 1997, Coming from Your Inner Self, Conversation with W. Brian Arthur, Dialog on Leadership, Xerox PARC, April 16, 1999, by Joseph Jaworski, Gary Jusela, C. Otto Scharmer
• 1998, An Interview With W. Brian Arthur Strategy+Business, Joel Kurtzman, Editor-in-Chief, Second Quarter 1998
• 2003, CIOs: Transforming the Corporate Landscape, Not Just IT, Interview with Brian Arthur, CIO Magazine, July 15, 2003
• 2006, Interview with W. Brian Arthur, by Michael Mauboussin, Legg Mason Capital Management, September 26, 2006

This list is initially removed from the article and moved here, because it is detailled information, to much for the short article itself.

-- Mdd (talk) 20:18, 19 November 2007 (UTC)/ 11:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

External links removed

The following external links are removed. They didn't seemed notable enough. - Mdd (talk) 23:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

• ^EL1The Force of an Idea, John Cassidy, New Yorker, January 12, 1998 (Discusses Arthur's increased returns impact on Microsoft antitrust case.)
• New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World, Increasing Returns (Chapter 2), Kevin Kelly, Penguin, 1999.
• Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by W. Brian Arthur and Foreword by Kenneth J. Arrow. University of Michigan Press.
• InnoCentive: Crowdsourcing Diversity, Assignment Zero/Wired (magazine), a crowdsourcing interview with InnoCentive founder Alpheus Bingham discussing Dr. Arthur's works in combinatorics. July 2007.
• Rapid Networking is Key in New Economy, Albuquerque Tribune, June 25, 2007.
• NetLogo modeling and simulation of Arthur's El Farol problem

The lead sentence

The current lead sentence is to specific and it is missing essential information:

William Brian Arthur (1945, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an economist credited with creating the modern theory of increasing returns.<

The lead sentence should be something like this:

William Brian Arthur (1945) is an Irish economist and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, known for the creating of the modern theory of increasing returns.

So Randy, if this information is right please change it maybe with any changes you want. -- Mdd (talk) 19:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

credited with creating the modern theory of increasing returns?

This article by Paul Krugman seems to suggest otherwise: http://www.slate.com/id/1928/ He cites several examples of how increasing returns was already known about and studied at the time. How should we reconcile such information? —Umofomia (talk) 21:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

After looking into the issue more closely, even Kenneth Arrow, the person who wrote the foreward that is used as the citation for this statement, does not say he credits him for creating the modern theory of increasing returns (reading the foreward, I don't see where it really appears to credit him either), but he does defend Arthur by saying he was definitely influential. See this link for Arrow's response (including those of others) to the article I mentioned above: http://www.slate.com/id/2485/. I think we should probably instead just change the statement to say Arthur "influenced the modern theory of increasing returns." —Umofomia (talk) 21:58, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I decided to be bold and do the change myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._Brian_Arthur&diff=245542530&oldid=223135994 —Umofomia (talk) 22:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Good job catching that. CRETOG8(t/c) 00:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Birth place

Where can I find reliable sources for the place of birth? Kindest regards, --Drahreg01 (talk) 14:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Adding a YouTube playlist with all lectures on YouTube as external link?

What about making a YouTube playlist of all Brians longer lectures or talks? As one external link? I find it hard to find these videos because there are so many with low view count. But YouTube recommendation engine keeps serving them from the algorithmic deep time after time. 51.175.107.89 (talk) 16:59, 12 September 2022 (UTC)