Category: writing

I am visiting the Santa Fe Institute, where everyone who’s anyone is interested in applying the quantitative methods of physics to complex phenomena that aren’t…

dl.dropbox.com……

www.afr.com……

watch.bnn.ca/#clip580703…

tv.ibtimes.com……

finance.yahoo.com……

www.forbes.com……

www.marketminder.com……

allaboutalpha.com……

blogs.reuters.com……

blogs.reuters.com……

blogs.reuters.com……

blogs.reuters.com……

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…

The sun’s gravity pulls at all parts of the planet, and the bits of earth closer to the sun get pulled harder than the bits…

This is an extended version of a review I wrote on Amazon for 

I went to the NY Film Festival for the first time in years last night and saw 

In this 

I came across 

Having been a scientist, one of my major pet peeves is the naïve use of science. Let me give you several examples. The influential biologist…

On my way to New York from South Africa in the Sixties, I stopped in Israel. It was midsummer, and in Ramat Gan where I…

For a couple of years now I’ve had a bad feeling about the field of finance. Though I often inveighed against the mechanical use of…

If God had only had a committee of business writers to help him, I think he could have done a better job: Single AuthorThe Committee…

I grew up in a post-WWII world where, temporarily, because of their capacity to create devices that wreak destruction, physicists had lots of influence in…

Capitalism depends on lending and borrowing, and hence on banks. In that sense banks are a utility, like 

The internecine arguments by economists in the daily papers show that a good part of economics is about what is good; and how to achieve…

Theories deal with the world on its own terms, absolutely. Models are metaphors, relative descriptions of the object of their attention that compare it to…