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Picture this: Athens, 399 BC.

Socrates moved through the open marketplace - the Agora - speaking to the merchants, artisans, economists and philosophers about their ideas.

Coolnomics is the modern room where CEOs, artists, founders and corporate leaders commercialise cool ideas for the market.

We are not learning about business hidden behind the walls of academia, separate to where the business is being done. We are doing it live, in the marketplace itself.

We are in the Agora.

Where the Agora begins

Come to the first public lecture.

Live, online, 29 July. The first of three public lectures teaching you the history of cool, the history of the economy and how to apply Coolnomics to your ideas.

Introducing

The Coolnometer.

You can never see both sides of a coin at once. That's the problem. The Coolnometer lets you read both together - cool on one side, money on the other. Test your idea for free.

Test Your Idea →

The same instrument we open every lecture with. 3 simple questions, get your instant reading.

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Cool on one side.
Money on the other.
Two sides of the same coin.

An Intentional Real-Time Tour

We're opening the Coolnomics Agora,
one wing at a time.

Wings 1 and 2 are open and teeming already. People are running their ideas through the Coolnometer. People are buying their seat to the first live lecture series.

Wings 3 to 5 open over the coming month, wing by wing. Think of it as a tour: experience the richness of each intelligence space as it unfolds.

Agora Directory
Wing 1 Coolnometer NOW OPEN

Run your idea through the meter and read the cool and the nomics of it.

The diagnostic that answers the core question: how valuable is your idea?

Wing 2 Live NOW OPEN

Buy your ticket to the first public lecture series.

You'll learn about the history of cool, the history of economics and how to apply Coolnomics to your ideas.

Wing 3 Pro OPENING SOON

Strategy sessions, corporate briefings and the Fellows program.

Graduate with a commercial strategy built for your idea.

Wing 4 Lab OPENING SOON

Where the philosophical thinking gets published.

Working Papers, Predictions and Scores. The White Paper and Manifesto.

Holding the breadth of the work.

Wing 5 Library OPENING SOON

On-demand lectures on product design, marketing, operations and leading a team.

Learn at your own pace, develop your multi-disciplinary skills.

In their words

"Robyn Wilson has a talent for bringing people together and getting things done. You feel smart when you talk to Robyn, like she's doing something really cool and you understand it really well. So you might just be really cool as well."

Concrete Playground · Editorial

Twenty years in the room with

Queen Victoria Building · Disney · Tourism Australia · NSW Health · Art Gallery of NSW City of Sydney · SXSW Sydney · Machine Hall · Ngaarlu · NurseWatch · Fort Street Capital UnitePlayPerform · Australian Financial Review · Australian Fashion Week

The long intellectual tradition

Coolnomics is an original economic theory, written by Robyn Wilson in 2023. It continues an ancient intellectual lineage built by giants from the worlds of culture, economics and philosophy.

SocratesThe Agora, 399 BC
Adam SmithThe invisible hand, 1776
Immanuel KantReason and logic, 1781
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSynthesis, 1807
Karl MarxValue and labour, 1867
Hannah ArendtThe public realm, 1958
Pierre BourdieuCultural capital, 1986
Friedrich HayekSpontaneous order, 1945
Forthcoming · The Lab

When the Lab wing of the Agora opens, you'll be able to read Robyn's Working Papers exploring these iconic thinkers' work through a contemporary Coolnomics lens.

You're invited

Come to the first public lecture.

29 July 2026 · 7:00 PM AEST · Online
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Robyn Wilson