What is wealth? How is it created? And how can we create more of it for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and societies? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker provides provocative new answers to these fundamental questions.

Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of economists and scientists and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers, he explains, are revolutionizing economics by showing how the economy is an evolutionary system, much like a biological system. It is economic evolution that creates wealth and has taken us from the Stone Age to the $36.5 trillion global economy of today.

By better understanding economic evolution, Beinhocker writes, we can better understand how to create more wealth. The author shows how complexity economics is turning conventional wisdom on its head in areas ranging from business strategy and organizational design to investment strategy and public policy. As sweeping in scope as its title, The Origin of Wealth will rewire our thinking about the workings of the global economy and where it is going.

·牛津大学新经济思想研究所掌门人，致力于将前沿的跨学科方法应用于解决金融系统的稳定性、创新和增长、经济不平等和环境可持续性等问题。

·圣塔菲研究所外聘教授，与复杂经济学奠基人布莱恩·阿瑟等合作开展研究。

·在麦肯锡公司工作了18年，担任麦肯锡全球研究院合伙人。