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Abigail Devereaux is a PhD candidate in economics at George Mason University and a visiting PhD fellow in Eeonomics at New York University. She is an incoming research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economic Growth and assistant professor of economics at Wichita State University. She re-entered academia after seven years in high tech, where she worked as a technical project manager at Wolfram Research, and helped run their complex systems summer school. She holds an M.A. degree in mathematics and a B.A. in physics from Boston University.

Abigail Devereaux integrates her complex systems and pure science knowledge with her economics research, envisioning institutions like markets and governments as complex adaptive systems. She has published in a number of journals, including Journal of Institutional Economics, The American Economist, Review of Austrian Economics, Cosmos & Taxis, and Complex Systems.

Her theoretical research includes the development of synecological game theory, an analytical bridge between traditional economic theory and agent-based modeling; combinatorial growth theory, explaining world GDP progression as a process of "tinkering and trade," and the theory of piecemeal circumnavigation, which relates technological innovation in mixed reality to entrepreneurial exit.