# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-brian-arthur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:09:52.696Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/w-brian-arthur"
name: "W. Brian Arthur"
slug: "w-brian-arthur"
description: "William Brian Arthur is a Belfast-born economist credited with developing the modern approach to increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets. He has been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC. He is credited with the invention of the El Farol Bar problem."
tagline: "American economist"
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birthDate: "1946-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump