William Arnold Barnett is an American economist whose current work is in the field of chaos and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem. An economist is an individual who studies, develops, and applies theories and concepts from economics, and writes about economic policy. ... A plot of the trajectory Lorenz system for values r = 28, σ = 10, b = 8/3 In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under certain conditions exhibit a phenomenon known as chaos. ...

Barnett is currently the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas. He was previously Research Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC; Stuart Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin; and Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to becoming an economist, he was a "rocket scientist," working as one of the system development engineers on the F-1 booster rocket engine for Project Apollo at Rocketdyne. Macroeconomics is the economics sub-field of study that considers aggregate behavior, and the study of the sum of individual economic decisions. ... The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or Kansas) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... Washington University in St. ... Apollo CSM in lunar orbit. ... F-1 rocket engine Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. ...

Barnett is a leading researcher in macroeconomics and econometrics. He is one of the pioneers in the study of chaos and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as a major figure in the study of the aggregation problem, which lies at the heart of how individual and aggregate data are related. He is the originator of the Divisia Monetary Aggregates. The earliest data with those aggregates, extending back to 1959, were produced by Salam Fayyad. Econometrics literally means economic measurement. It is a combination of mathematical economics and statistics. ... Salam Fayyad Salam Fayyad (b. ...

He is Editor of the Elsevier monograph series International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, and Editor of the journal Macroeconomic Dynamics, published by Cambridge University Press. Elseviers logo Elsevier, the worlds largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. ... The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge. ...

Barnett received his B.S. degree from M.I.T., his M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published 17 books (as either author or editor) and over 130 articles in professional journals. MIT redirects here. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

External links

• Barnett papers
• Entry in Who's Who in Economics Since 1700
• Personal web site
• Blog