Joffa Applegate
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Engineering Center - A Building (ECA) 1031 S. Palm Walk A129 Tempe, AZ 85281-2701
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Mail code: 2701Campus: Tempe
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Joffa M. Applegate is a member of the Research Faculty at Arizona State University's School of Complex Adaptive systems, and co-lead of the Complexity Economics Lab. She holds a master’s degree in Physics and a doctorate in Applied Mathematics for Life and Social Sciences with a concentration in Complex Adaptive Systems Sciences from ASU.
Her research spans development, labour and financial economics, political economy, and institutional analysis under the umbrella of complexity economics, with particular focus on the wage-finance nexus, agent-oriented economic development, differential monetary flows, and the effects of social scaling. She holds that economies are socially determined arrangements rooted in cultural values and narratives, a position that informs her engagement with speculative fiction as an economic design tool.
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics for Life and Social Sciences with Concentration in Complex Adaptive Systems
Dissertation: “Complexity Studies of Firm Dynamics”
Arizona State University, 2018
M.S. Physics
Thesis: “A Study of Isospin Symmetry Breaking in 12C with 50 MeV Pions”
Arizona State University, 1992
B.S. Physics, English minor
North Carolina State University, 1990
