Nicholas A. Thomas

Nicholas A. Thomas

Rigorous economics for a complex world.

Economist in the Washington, DC metro area. Founder of Complexity Insights.

Pairing traditional economic analysis with tools from complexity science to understand market patterns and forecast trends.

"For millennia people have been trying to predict the future. Now, leveraging big data and machine learning, we can identify the patterns that drive change."

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Professional Profile

Specializing in economics, complexity science, and data-driven analysis.

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Education

B.S. in Economics
Penn State University, 2025
Focus: Business & Law Economics
Minor in Business Administration


Combining rigorous theory with practical application.

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Experience

Founder of Complexity Insights, an independent economics research practice.


Publishing applied research and building agent-based models that complement traditional economic analysis — a second lens on the questions economists have always asked.

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Toolkit

Python, R, Stata, and Julia for data analysis and simulation — agent-based models, Monte Carlo methods, and data pipelines.


From economic theory to working, reproducible code — open on GitHub.

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Scholarship

Publishing regular research on traditional and quantitative economics.


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