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Occidental ‘Accidents’

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…

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“A bang or two”

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

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Why I’m right

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The dangerous method

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

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I Had a Dream

In this 

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The Hunger Artists

I came across 

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Dystopic finance

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…

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God’s 11 principles

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…

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A serious question

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

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PPE morphs to PNE

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…

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