Learning to observe the world as it really is Whether complexity economics will survive the assault that the practitioners of TE may launch, and emerge as the paradigm shift we need remains to be seen. In the meantime there is much that economists can do to make ourselves and our discipline a little more useful.
One thing we can do is pay close attention, especially to data. Economists now have access to enormous amounts of data on countries across the world, from the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP and other institutions that provide data online, much of it free of cost. We have regional comparative data from the CCMF, UN-ECLAC and others.