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Investwell's Quarterly Newsletter: The Advisor

David A. Jones writes a quarterly newsletter, The Advisor. Below is the most recent issue. Issues going back to 2021 are available using the buttons at the bottom of the page. Issues older than 2021 are available on The Advisor Archives tab of this page.

The Advisor – Summer 2021: Complexity

The theory of self-organised criticality, or Complexity Theory, is an extension of chaos theory. It hypothesizes that upheaval, change and enormous consequences flow from trivial seeming events. Think of the last snowflake landing on a mountain top that triggers an avalanche. 

The economy is an incredibly complex, adaptive and unpredictable system. Yet traditional economics uses precise mathematical functions, assumes perfectly rational agents and imagines an idealised system in equilibrium…

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