JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
August 1, 2017 - January 31, 2018
Santa Fe Institute
Position Title/Short Description
Section: Other Nonacademic (Temporary, Part-Time, Non-Salaried, Consulting, Etc.)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, UNITED STATES
JEL Classification: 00 -- Default: Any Field
Keywords:
Theory of the Firm
Organizational Structure
Full Text of JOE Listing:
SFI seeks a postdoc to play a key role in a project using modern information theory and numerical optimization techniques to analyze social organizations, ranging from modern firms to military organizations to complex chiefdoms to primary states.
The premise of the project is to identify the "organization'' of a social group as the communication network(s) within that group. To begin we will adopt a team game perspective, assuming that the group's network structure is (approximately) optimal, given the information-processing limitations of the agents within the group, and the exogenous welfare function of the group. We intend to leverage neural network training algorithms to find such structures. An expanded description of this project can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04449
This project is a collaboration among archaeologists, economists, and computer scientists. The ideal starting date is the spring of 2018, though that is flexible. The position would last for two years, with possible extensions.
Application Requirements:
- Application Instructions Below
- Letters of Reference Instructions Below