Author: Emanuel Derman

When the era of rationality finally dawned, it became clear to everyone that love doesn?t last.

The other day while teaching I suddenly briefly felt really ill with a pain in my lower back and then broke out in a copious cold sweat over every part of me; even the hair on my head was as wet as though I’d had a five mile run.

I have been rereading (and enjoying, for the third time in my life) the book Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori.

I think I’ve maybe been a closet phenomenologist for the last 30 years, only I didn’t know it.

I watched two recent finals — The Australian Tennis Open (Djokovic vs. Nadal) and the Super Bowl (Giants vs. Patriots) and their endings were very different in spirit.

Schopenhauer, in The World as Will and Representation, has a chapter on The Metaphysics of Sexual Love, and remarks how strange it is that love ceaselessly occupies people’s thoughts, interests and readings, and yet has gone relatively unexamined from a philosophical point of view.

Part of the reason economists and traders are likely to be fooled is because, underlying everything they do is the statistics of what is ultimately human behavior.

Self-schooled in finance and unschooled in economics, I was very glad to be sent a link to Hayek’s Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

Consultants, Management

“Lola” is executed with great panache, and loosely relevant to economic affairs today. It’s set in a small town in the boom of 1950s West Germany, and is about contagion, the moral kind.

1. Everyone is a grownup and no one is more grown up than anyone else.

Sam Shepard as technocratic cold America vs. Julie Delpy as cultured sophisticated Europe.

What follows are some remarks I intend to make on Friday Oct 21 2011 at a panel on global risk organized by GARP and the Federal…

Why shouldn’t one regard all mental phenomena as meaningful? Why only some?

I went to the NY Film Festival for the first time in years last night and saw David Cronenberg?s A Dangerous Method, a movie about the…

In this article on nightmares in the WSJ, there is the following paragraph:

I came across a very interesting post by Sam Harris about the difficulties of getting paid for being an artist, a writer, or a public intellectual.

Having been a scientist, one of my major pet peeves is the na?ve use of science.

The first thing that struck me after I got over my shock at being 10,000 miles from everything I knew was how foreign everyone was. New York was a polyglot city of immigrants.

If God had only had a committee of business writers to help him, I think he could have done a better job.