Duncan McClements

Hello, I’m Duncan, and I study economics at Cambridge.

I’m interested in modelling, history, and anything that involves spherical cows. Recently, I’ve been thinking about:

• Estimating the shape of the tech tree.
• How to build data centers and nuclear plants better.
• The recovery of human civilisation after a crisis.

With Jason Hausenloy, some things I've worked on include:

• Modelling very reasonable housing proposals and weird immigration ones for the Adam Smith Institute.
• Raising islands and filling rivers for our blog "Model Thinking".
• Occasionally dabbling with AI policy (frontier data governance).

Contact me at dm2020@cam.ac.uk if you ever come to Cambridge or have a spherical cow you want to model!