{"id":32336,"date":"2023-03-29T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=32336"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:00:10","slug":"on-the-road-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/on-the-road-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Alan Kirman became a complexity economist before the term was invented.\u00a0 Having trained in equilibrium economics, his intellectual curiosity led him to do something few economists actually do: study how markets work in reality rather than theory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As chief adviser to the OECD\u2019s New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative, he has also sought to apply this approach to policy development. <em>The Mint<\/em> caught up with him following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk\/event-details\/festschrift-for-alan-kirman\"><em>Festschrift<\/em> at the Bank of England<\/a> to find out more about his intellectual journey.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/themintmagazine.com\/on-the-road-to-reality-interview-transcript\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Alan Kirman became a complexity economist before the term was invented.\u00a0 Having trained in equilibrium economics, his intellectual curiosity led him to do something few economists actually do: study &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2377,964,132,2370,216,2378],"class_list":["post-32336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-alan-kirman","tag-complexity-economics","tag-economics","tag-mar-2023","tag-oecd","tag-real-markets","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}