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Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World is a nonfiction work of economic analysis and scientific argument by J. Doyne Farmer, a physicist and complexity scientist associated with Oxford and the Santa Fe Institute. The book argues that conventional economics often fails because it relies too heavily on equilibrium, representative agents, and simplified assumptions about rational behavior. Farmer proposes complexity economics as a more realistic framework for understanding economies as evolving systems made of many interacting, adaptive parts. The book combines explanation of complex systems science, criticism of mainstream modeling, and discussion of practical policy problems such as financial instability, climate change, technological change, inequality, and economic forecasting. Its purpose is not merely to reject traditional economics, but to show how modern data, computational power, and agent-based simulation can support better prediction and better policy design. It is both a manifesto for methodological change and a public introduction to a developing scientific field.