The NYU School of Global Public Health and New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) is pleased to invite you to a joint roundtable discussion
We live in a connected world of coupled dynamic systems. Epidemic dynamics, economic contagions, network transmission of poor information, human emotions and behaviors are producing concurrent and mutually-amplifying shocks to global systems. The standard tools of mainstream equilibrium economics are inadequate to explain, to forecast, or to control these complex systems. New modeling and analysis tools are essential to understand these coupled nonlinear systems and to inform policy.
To meet this need, NAEC and the Agent-Based Modeling Lab at NYU are developing with partners new approaches and injecting them into the networks and structures of policymaking. The aim is to develop innovative approaches applying insights and methods from agent-based modeling, behavioral neuroscience, contagion dynamics, network science, econophysics, and mathematics to policy questions spanning public health, inequality, conflict and economics.
To launch this collaboration, we are inviting world experts on state-of-the-art policy applications emerging from new analytical tools and techniques to show how methodological innovations and interdisciplinary approaches could contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and interaction of our economic, financial, social and environmental systems. A key focus will be on lessons and practical implications for policy.
Introductions by
- Dean Cheryl Healton, NYU School of Global Public Health
- Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD
Moderated by
- Sinéad O'Sullivan, Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School
Featured Panelists
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Angus Armstrong, Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network
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Robert Axtell, Professor Computational Science, George Mason University
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Joshua M. Epstein, Professor of Epidemiology, New York University School of Global Public Health and Director of the NYU Agent-Based Modeling Lab
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Gillian Golden, Policy Advice and Implementation, Education and Skills Directorate, OECD
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Matheus Grasselli, Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University and the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto
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Cars Hommes, Professor of Economic Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
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Alan Kirman, Chief Advisor to the NAEC Initiative
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Blake LeBaron, Professor of International Economics, Brandeis International Business School
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Leigh Tesfatsion, Research Professor, Professor Emerita of Economics, Courtesy Research Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
If you have any connectivity issues with the link below, you can also access the talk on Zoom by clicking on this link here. For any further questions, please reach out to naec@oecd.org.