Mark Lewis Mendick Roeder (born 28 May 1957) is an Australian-British author and cultural commentator. He has written The Big Mo (book): Why Momentum Rules The World (2011),[NPR interview with Mark Roeder. http://www.kera.org/2015/01/07/nerd-nation/][Interview of Mark Roeder by John Naish, Psychologies Magazine. (Pages 68–71) February 2011.]
Background and education
Roeder was born in London, England. His father, Reuben Mendick, was a medical doctor and
dux of George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Roeder's maternal great, great grandfather is the author Frank Fowler, who played a significant role in Australia's early literary history. Roeder holds a master's degree in Business and Technology (MBT) from the University of NSW.
Career
Before becoming a writer, Roeder worked as a corporate executive, and held senior roles at
UBS Banking Group, Zurich Insurance Group and
Westpac and lived in London, New York, Sydney and Zurich. He currently works as a consultant with David Hale (economist) Global Economics, and is a Delphi Fellow contributor to
Big Think.
Works
Roeder's book,
The Big Mo (2011), explores the role that large-scale momentum played in the 2008 financial crisis.
It was described by the
Financial Times as 'A compelling book that journeys seamlessly from finances to the Iraq war, from oil prices and climate change to religion and pop culture in an effort to explain how we behave and why we are so easily led.'
Roeder explained that,
The ABC broadcaster and critic Phillip Adams described The Big Mo as 'a revelation. In our personal, political and economic lives we seem to be swept along by circumstances. Our attempts to change direction are doomed. The Big Mo explains why.'[Adam Spencer, ABC. 4 November 2013.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2013/11/why-geeks-shall-inherit-the-earth.html?site=sydney&program=702_breakfast ][The Australian newspaper. 18 October 2013.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/books/story-e6frgabx-1226741781473
] It suggests that the Man-made environment of the Anthropocene is selecting for more diverse traits in humans, compared to previous generations, which is fostering a cognitive revolution in the human species.
Bibliography
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What We Do Next Really Matters. (2022). Australian Scholarly Publishing & Arden International.
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. (2013). HarperCollins. , (2014) Arcade Publishing (USA & Europe)
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. (2011). HarperCollins (Australasia) , Random House (Europe and Global) , Xinhua Publishing House (China).
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"What’s Next (The Diminishing Returns of the Information Age – section)" (2012). David & Lyric Hale. Yale University Press. ,
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Space Invaders. Co-authored as Mark Mendick with Julian Wolanski. Consolidated Press.
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