He uses a multidisciplinary approach, making use of biology, physics, mathematics, statistics and psychology as sources of results that can be applied to economics.
[citation needed] Paul Ormerod is a British economist who has worked in a wide variety of fields.
In 2009 he was awarded a DSc honoris causa by the University of Durham “for the distinction of your contribution to the discipline of economics”.
Since 2013, Ormerod has written a weekly column for the newspaper City AM and a selection of his pieces was published in 2018 under the title Against the Grain: Insights from an Economic Contrarian.
In the autumn of 2022 he was appointed chair of Atom Valley Greater Manchester Mayoral Development Zone.