The emerging science of quantum economics can help us create a 'real-world' economics that actually works for us all
David Orrell is a scientist and writer of books on science and economics. According to the Sunday Times 'Orrell is an engaging and witty writer, adept at explaining often complicated theories in clear language.' His latest books are The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets, written with Paul Wilmott; and Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets It Wrong (Icon Books, 2017).
As money becomes more digital and diffuse, it also becomes more
quantum. In this timely and illuminating book, David Orrell brings
us to the frontier of where economics, physics and psychology
intersect. You'll never look at money the same again!
*Dr Parag Khanna, author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of
Global Civilization*
Reading David Orrell's Quantum Economics is equivalent to playing a
game of 3-D chess against the concept of value itself. The book
easily switches between physical, economic and metaphysical
conceptions of value, revealing their hidden parallels and
paradoxes. The result is at once an explanation of our current
economic predicament, a diagnosis of how we got there and a
credible guide to the sort of "out of the box" thinking that is
likely to get us out of it. After you've forgotten about the latest
wheeze about the financial crisis, you'll be returning to this
book. What is perhaps most surprising about it is just how readable
-- yet thoroughly researched -- it is.
*Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology,
University of Warwick, and author of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a
Power Game*
Orrell gives economic theory a much-needed shove into the world of
science - understandable, fascinating, thought-provoking and
ground-breaking.
*Hilliard MacBeth, author of When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the
Canadian Real Estate Crash (2nd Edition, June 2018)*
Beautifully written, inherently ethical, and often hilarious, this
book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the weird, and
getting weirder, world of modern finance.'
*Margaret Wertheim, author of Pythagoras’ Trousers and The Pearly
Gates of Cyberspace*
Rich with suggestive insights on every page and written in an
accessible style, this book will both engage and infuriate its
audience. For those of us who feel trapped in the professional
cocoons of the like-minded, this book offers a chance to escape
from the iron cages we have built.
*Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of
International Studies, Cornell University*
Orrell has explained his ideas in a very lively style, providing
the history and a basic explanation of the physics; and goes on to
explore the various consequences of this dual nature, which
neo-classical economics did not foresee. The book should be read,
not only by economists but also by all decision-makers.'
*Asghar Qadir, Professor of Physics, National University of Science
and Technology, Pakistan*
On the cusp of an earlier revolution, Karl Marx said all that is
solid melts into air and all that is holy is profaned. Constructing
a less mechanistic and even more revolutionary science of quantum
economics, David Orrell proves it so. Orrell does not dabble in
metaphor or metaphysics: he intellectually, persuasively and
corrosively transmutates money into a quantum phenomenon. In the
process, classical economics is profaned to good effect and a
quantum future glimmers as a real possibility.
*James Der Derian, Chair of International Security Studies,
University of Sydney*
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